F1 Austrian GP sprint race

Verstappen saw off Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz to clinch pole ahead of the sprint race by just 0.029s, in a final segment of qualifying that was stopped twice due to separate crashes for Mercedes pair Lewis Hamilton and George Russell.

Leclerc will join Verstappen on the front row for the sprint race, which returns for its second of two trials this season, as Sainz slotted into third place as the top three were split by less than one tenth of a second.