At the end of a closely contested qualifying session on the Austrian circuit, Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen posted the second and fourth fastest times respectively.
It was a very lively and close qualifying session right up to the final few minutes when fans were deprived of witnessing the last lap challenges because of a yellow flag sector.
Seb's best lap was a 1'04”293 set on the Ultrasoft tyres. Even right up until the end however, Seb had hoped for even more…
“In the second run I was hoping to jump Bottas and I think I could have done better, but in the end I am pretty happy with my lap; the car is very good,” he said. “Mercedes is always very quick in qualifying, but today we were close.”
“I think it should be fine tomorrow. It will be a long race and many things can happen. The most important thing is that the car was good in qualifying. We will try to do our race and look forward. For sure it will be tough, but let's see what we can do”
