Austrian Grand Prix: Max Verstappen on sprint race pole with Lando Norris third

The Austrian Grand Prix is unrecorded connected 5 Live and the BBC Sport website

Lewis Hamilton qualified lone 18th for Saturday's sprint contention astatine the Austrian Grand Prix aft what helium called "bad clip usage" by Mercedes.

Haas operator Nico Hulkenberg was 4th up of the Ferraris of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc.

Hamilton besides became tangled up with Verstappen during the archetypal session.

The seven-time champion was down Haas operator Kevin Magnussen trying to get a spread to commencement his last lap, aft his fastest thigh clip - which would person easy got him into the 2nd league - was deleted for exceeding way limits.

Waiting successful crook down Magnussen, Hamilton was astatine Turn 10 arsenic Verstappen came up down him trying to decorativeness a lap.

In evident retaliation, Verstappen past overtook Hamilton down the pit consecutive and seemed to impede him into Turn One astatine the commencement of Hamilton's last flying lap, which was not accelerated capable to advancement retired of the archetypal session.

Hamilton said: "Just timing. Not right. Sprint contention doesn't truly substance anyway. Just person immoderate amusive from the back. It is what it is. I don't truly consciousness thing astir it."

On a atrocious time for Mercedes, Hamilton's team-mate George Russell, who did marque it beyond the archetypal session, volition enactment up 15th due to the fact that hydraulic problems that required a steering file alteration prevented him moving again.

At the front, Perez saved his blushes from Friday, erstwhile helium qualified 15th for the expansive prix aft a bid of way limits transgressions, by making it an each Red Bull beforehand enactment for the sprint, which starts astatine 15:30 UK time.

But the Mexican was 0.493 seconds slower than Verstappen - larger than the borderline separating Perez from Esteban Ocon's Alpine successful ninth place.

Behind the Ferraris, Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso volition commencement the sprint seventh up of team-mate Lance Stroll, Ocon and Magnussen.

Sainz impressed successful the archetypal session. He was successful the pits for astir of it with a brake-by-wire occupation and managed to re-join astatine the extremity with clip for lone 1 flying thigh - with which helium went fastest of all.

There whitethorn yet beryllium immoderate changes successful the bid arsenic Hulkenberg and Leclerc some look stewards' investigations.

Hulkenberg's is for an unsafe merchandise from the pits, erstwhile helium ran implicit his ain tyre, launching the car into the air.

Leclerc is being investigated for impeding McLaren's Oscar Piastri.

It remains to beryllium seen whether the Verstappen-Hamilton incidental volition beryllium investigated - determination has been nary study of it arsenic yet.