watch Austrian grand prix 2015
Lewis Hamilton’s strutting domination of the 2015 Formula One season continued when he won his seventh pole position in eight attempts, despite spinning off the track. The two-times world champion has failed to win three of the seven races to date but another victory was thrown away in Monaco, where he bestrode the weekend only to be denied at the end by his team’s poor decision-making.
Another fastest time for Hamilton means Mercedes have not been knocked off pole position since this race a year ago, when Williams locked out the front row. But this was not the most straightforward of qualifying sessions for Hamilton. The serenity of the Red Bull Ring’s setting disguised the fact that the drivers had to work hard in challenging conditions after rain had swept in from the cloud-shrouded Styrian mountains.
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Qualifying got under way on a damp track and matters only improved towards the end. Even then Hamilton spun off in his final effort in Q3 and might have lost pole to Rosberg. But the German, who was on a flyer, repeated Hamilton’s error just before the end of his last lap.
“I wasn’t too concerned about losing pole at that time because I was trying to get the car going, but afterwards I was thinking: ‘I probably lost it there.’
“I just didn’t have the confidence in the balance I had early on, and the temperatures of the tyres and the brakes.”
Asked about drawing level with Vettel on total poles, he said: “I’m very fortunate that I’ve had a great car for the last two years and been able to get poles and raise my total. I’d much rather have Sebastian’s world championships [four] than his pole positions, so I’m working towards that.” Online live
Rosberg said: “I’m definitely gutted, but Lewis was 0.2secs up on the previous lap and I was 0.2secs exactly up at that point so I knew I had to go for it. I’m not sure what happened. I went on the AstroTurf out of the second-to-last corner and maybe that was still a bit wet or something. I just overdid it after that. I’m not sure. I just lost it there, into the last corner.” Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso land 25-place Austrian F1 grid penalties
The others to go out were Daniel Ricciardo – whose poor weekend at Red Bull’s home grand prix was compounded as he could only go 14th, with a 10-place grid penalty also to be applied – Carlos Sainz Jr (Toro Rosso), Marcus Ericsson (Sauber) and Pastor Maldonado (Lotus).
Qualifying times
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1 Lewis Hamilton (GB) Mercedes 1min 08.455sec; 2 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes 1:08.655; 3 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Ferrari 1:08.810; 4 Felipe Massa (Br) Williams 1:09.192; 5 Nico Hülkenberg (Ger) Force India 1:09.278; 6 Valtteri Bottas (Fin) Williams 1:09.319; 7 Max Verstappen (Neth) Toro Rosso 1:09.612; 8 Daniil Kvyat (Rus) Red Bull 1:09.694; 9 Felipe Nasr (Br) Sauber 1:09.713; 10 Romain Grosjean (Fr) Lotus no time; 11 Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Lotus 1:10.374; 12 Marcus Ericsson (Swe) Sauber 1:10.426; 13 Carlos Sainz Jr (Sp) Toro Rosso 1:10.465; 14 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) Red Bull 1:10.482; 15 Fernando Alonso (Sp) McLaren 1:10.736; 16 Sergio Pérez (Mex) Force India 1:12.522; 17 Jenson Button (GB) McLaren 1:12.632; 18 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1:12.867; 19 Roberto Merhi (Sp) Marussia 1:14.071; 20 Will Stevens (GB) Marussia 1:15.368
