Bottas opens the season from pole position

Austrian GP

The Finn Valterri Bottas / . Reuters

The Finn relegated Hamilton, his teammate at Mercedes, to second place.

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The Finn Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) will start this Sunday from the pole position at the Austrian Grand Prix, the first in the Formula World Championship, which takes place at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, where he relegated his teammate to second place English Lewis Hamilton, six-time world champion.

Bottas dominated the qualifying this Saturday and signed the twelfth pole position of his F1 career by covering, on his best lap, the 4,318 meters of the Austrian track in one minute, two seconds and 939 thousandths, 122 less than Hamilton, who aims this year to match the historical record for titles (7) of the German Michael Schumacher,

From the second row will start the Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull), winner of the last two years in Austria, who will start third; and the Englishman Lando Norris (McLaren).

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