F1 Qualifying Results 2021 Styrian Grand Prix
Event: Styrian F1 Grand Prix
Track: Red Bull Ring
Several cars and drivers line up to give it all during qualifying for the Styrian F1 GP
Weather: dry 25.7°C
Tarmac: dry 55.3°C
Humidity : 27.6%
Wind : 0.2 m/s N
Pressure: 938.7 bar
Max Verstappen scored his 6th F1 pole position of his career. The Dutchman did it during the 2021 Styrian Grand Prix qualifying session today. The Red Bull driver will start from P1 for the first time on Red Bull Ring. It was the 66th pole for Red Bull Racing.
Q1
After the first stint Red Bull driver Max Verstappen was fastest with 1:04.489 min with his title rival Lewis Hamilton close behind him on 0.193s with the Mercedes.
With 5 mniutes to go the drivers who had to improve their lap time to get into Q2 were: Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo), George Russel (Williams), Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), Mick Schumacher (Haas and Nikita Mazepin (Haas).
Daniel Ricciardo was just safe by only 0.020s on P15 for McLaren. Of the top teams only Sergio Perez had to go out because the Mexican driver was still on P11. After the finish flag was waved we saw 18 drivers within a gap of 1 sec and even still 13 drivers in 0.5s time difference. towards P1! The only driver who improved enough to get into Q2 was Antonio Giovinazzi. He ended up on P14 and pushed out the Alpine of Esteban Ocon who was 17th quickest on +0.728s of P1.
Q2
Valtteri Bottas who received 3 grid place penalty for his pitlane spin yesterday during FP2 was the first to go out to try and get into Q3. Hamilton, Verstappen, Bottas and Giovinazzi went out on medium tyres in the first stint to try and get in a good lap. If they can get into Q3 on those tyres they are allowed to start tomorrow's race on the mediums.
After the first lap times were set Verstappen was on P1, Perez on P2 (+0.043s) on soft tyres, Bottas on P3 (+0.184s), Sebastian Vettel on P4 (+0.193s) and Hamilton on P5 (+0.846s).
With 5 minutes to go Pierre Gasly had driven the quickest lap time in the AlphaTauri. The French driver clocked a 1:04.429 and was only 0.004s quicker than Verstappen. Lando Norris also had improved and now was 4th with the McLaren. The young British driver was only 0.024s apart from Gasly's time.
With 5 minutes to go the drivers who had to improve to get into Q3 were Giovinazzi, Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren), Russell, Vettel and Charles Leclerc (Ferrari). The slowest driver was Giovinazzi the Italan driver was on P15 only 0.977s behind Gasly.
When the finish flag dropped the only driver who made it into Q3 was Leclerc, he ended up as 9th. Leclerc pushed out his Ferrari teammate Carlos Sainz. Giovinazzi did improve but stayed on P15 being only 0.716s slower than Perez who was quickest on a set of red tyres.
Q3
This time Hamilton was the first who went out to get a lap time on the timesheet. All cars obviously used the quickest soft tyre compound. No other car was on the track when the British driver set his first lap time of 1:04.205 min which was slower than the quickest lap of Q2 set by Sergio Perez.
After the first stint was done Max Verstappen was the man to beat with a 1:03.841 min. Which is the quickest lap of the weekend. Hamilton was 2nd (+0.226s), Norris on P3 (+0.403s), Bottas on P4 (+0.470s) and Perez on P5 (+0.483s).
In the last stint Valtteri Bottas did improve to P2 and the Finnish driver beat his teammate Hamilton for the 3rd time this season. Due to his penalty he will start from P5.
The pole time of last year's Styrian GP was a 1:17.825 min driven by Lewis Hamilton in the wet for the Mercedes team. The lap record of 1:02.939 min was not broken and set by Valtteri Bottas last year at the Austrian GP.
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Qualifying Times 2021 Styrian GP
| Pos | No | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Laps |
| 1 | 33 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:04,489 | 1:04,433 | 1:03,841 | 19 |
| 2 | 77 | *Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1:04,537 | 1:04,443 | 1:04,035 | 22 |
| 3 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:04,672 | 1:04,512 | 1:04,067 | 24 |
| 4 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 1:04,584 | 1:04,298 | 1:04,120 | 17 |
| 5 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull | 1:04,638 | 1:04,197 | 1:04,168 | 21 |
| 6 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri | 1:04,765 | 1:04,429 | 1:04,236 | 18 |
| 7 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1:04,745 | 1:04,646 | 1:04,472 | 21 |
| 8 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | 1:04,608 | 1:04,631 | 1:04,514 | 21 |
| 9 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Alpine | 1:04,971 | 1:04,582 | 1:04,574 | 18 |
| 10 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 1:04,821 | 1:04,663 | 1:04,708 | 18 |
| 11 | 63 | George Russell | Williams | 1:05,033 | 1:04,671 | 14 | |
| 12 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 1:04,859 | 1:04,800 | 15 | |
| 13 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren | 1:05,142 | 1:04,808 | 14 | |
| 14 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin | 1:05,051 | 1:04,875 | 15 | |
| 15 | 99 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Alfa Romeo | 1:05,092 | 17 | ||
| 16 | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams | 1:05,175 | 9 | ||
| 17 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 1:05,217 | 6 | ||
| 18 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Alfa Romeo | 1:05,429 | 8 | ||
| 19 | 47 | Mick Schumacher | Haas | 1:06,041 | 8 | ||
| 20 | 9 | Nikita Mazepin | Haas | 1:06,192 | 9 |
- Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes no. 77 received a 3 grid penalty for dangerous driving in the pit lane during practice.
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Hamster jumping the queue in Q3, I seem to remember everyone slating Marzepan for doing exactly the same thing , Lewis son , your losing it .........
oh dear not the actions of a british gentleman is it.losing it allright .cant take the pressure of not having the fastest car.and pressure from his team mate.if bottas had a few good results he could end up as mercedes top driver!! what what
madra, you are obviously not paying attention to the Jaxrants. A knight cannot be questioned. BTW, we have had a couple 'Lords' in our sport, a higher order than 'Sir'. I wonder if Jaxacon and the ham know that little gem.
and johnny herbert predicts a max verstappen win tomorrow,what is going on?,lets hope he is right
Disagree. In a perfect world VER and HAM take each other out and leave the spoils to a charging BOT. We'll never hear from Jax again. LOL
Oh i do hope so ,Lol
I hope that you are referring to the VER/HAM kerfuffle, not the disappearance of the Jaxafone. He would be missed. Who will be left to defend Sir Lewis? It's a thankless job.
Well as long as the next defence Sir Kneel gets is better than the one where he tried to say his name was being used unauthorised hell be ok, apparently he was due to be called as a witness at the court , but he sent his apologies saying he was to busy on a zoom call or something
I'm actually surprised his best mate Torger didn't advise him against it, but there you go
No Jax will be around for years, have no fear of that, wize men like him are always appreciated
no boy in the perfect world russell takes out hamas while being lapped and they both end up in the gravel followed by a good ol english punch up helmets off style
With you there big dog,if u don't have a dream how u Gona make a dream come true
unlikley scenario.first he would have to catch up with max also unlikley.max however overtaking hamas would simply bide his time and wait for the oppertunity to present itself and then pass tosser.he has matured you know. and he is in the top racing machine .ha
the writing is really on the wall for hamas, for john to admit to that. paul de resta held tough and didnt admit as much
My take.....seriously. That was the most boring quali of the year. Let's go racing!
not really pole was never in doubt, id like to have seen gasly on the front row with perez not far behind as brindle says to keep him honest
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