2026 Austrian Grand Prix - Spielberg, June 26 - 28

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that will not gonna stand surely?

wouldn't think so, but if he gets a +3, he is back where he was before. So only a bigger penalty would really hurt.

edit: no further investigations

[Artur Craft]

I think Russell should keep pole, he reduced enough. Regardless, very very poor from Max, he clearly was pushing way too much (look at his gap to Hadjar, besides Red Bull doesn´t have the pace to fight Mercedes and Ferrari) and was driving like a "Heroe" (much like Leclerc was doing in the previous 2 QLFs).

Russell´s pole just got confirmed BTW

[TimW]

Safety is a farce in F1 ever since they accepted a 5% lift for a yellow as sufficient.

[FrukostScones]

weird. Still spicy grid.

[IntrinsicVoid]

What Toto did in the FIA room will have to be left for our imagination.

[aberracus]

So FIA is in Toto pocket, truly disgusting

[F1NAC]

What Toto did in the FIA room will have to be left for our imagination.

Let him have it. Antonelli will pass him anyways

[matt_b]

Its all political, they're going to let George get away with it to make up for Monaco, it is what it is.

[Artur Craft]

Apparently, Russell said he was 0.5s ahead before the yellow and lifted enough to lose 0.25s

[ME4ME]

Safety is a farce in F1 ever since they accepted a 5% lift for a yellow as sufficient.

Exactly.

[Badger]

Well the single yellow clearly doesn't serve any purpose if you can set PB sectors in Q3 whilst passing one. And the second obvious point is that such a crash needs to be a double yellow 100% of the time.

[Mcl_G10]

Scandalous.

Russell to keep p1 just to spice up the championship?

F1 is mental.

[SB15]

All George is doing is making Kimi even more mad lmao

[Sergej]

Sector 15 has a single yellow flag at 17:00:23, which becomes double (aka lap invalidated) at 17:00:45. It's possible Russell passed through Sector 15 in that gap of 22s, lifting enough to keep his time.

[FNTC]

This is a joke. Where is the safety in setting a pole lap under yellows with a token lift?

Sky also say one marshall waved double yellows, so you can just ignore them then if the dash does not show it.

Sky also saying the lap time deleted was his inlap.