George Russell boosted his world championship ambitions with a last-gasp pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix, despite a yellow flag hampering him when Max Verstappen ran into the wall at the penultimate corner.
A dramatic conclusion saw the Briton first on the grid ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton in second and third. Kimi Antonelli, the championship leader in the other Mercedes, was fourth fastest.
The stewards ‘noted’ a possible ‘yellow-flag infringement’ but Russell celebrated as if he expected to keep hold of his advantage – a hope that was vindicated when the stewards cleared him of any transgression.
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