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Bottas takes Austria pole as Vettel handed grid penalty

Valtteri Bottas pipped Lewis Hamilton in a tight fight for Austrian Grand Prix pole position as Sebastian Vettel was penalised for impeding a rival. Vettel, 14 points behind Mercedes driver Hamilton in the championship, will drop from third to sixth after being found guilty of blocking Renault's Carlos Sainz. Bottas took pole by 0.019 seconds after Hamilton made life difficult for himself with a mistake on his first lap. Vettel qualified 0.334secs behind the Finn in his Ferrari. But the German will now start behind his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, the Red Bull of Max Verstappen and the impressive Haas of Romain Grosjean. Verstappen's team-mate Daniel Ricciardo took seventh, and expressed his...
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