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Hamilton to invent ‘dry dance' to avoid P6 start

Lewis Hamilton is desperate to avoid starting the Austrian Grand Prix from P6, so is going to try and create a 'dry dance'. With torrential rain forecast for Saturday there is a chance that qualifying could be scrapped and the results from FP2 could be used to form the grid for Sunday's race. Such a situation would see Red Bull's Max Verstappen start from pole ahead of Mercedes' race winner from Round 1 Valtteri Bottas. But things wouldn't look so good for six-time World Champion Hamilton who ended FP2 in P6. And the Briton admits starting from that spot would 'suck', so he is going to give a 'dry dance' a go in an bid to bring himself some luck. “If we have to start [there], that would...
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