you drive With more than one hundred days of delay due to the Corona pandemic has brought the world of formula 1 on Saturday without spectators in Spielberg in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix this Sunday (15.10 in the F. A. Z.-liveticker Formel 1, RTL and Sky) behind.

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Michael Wittershagen

Responsible for the Sport in the Frankfurt General Sunday newspaper.

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The Pole Position secured, quite surprisingly, Valtteri Bottas with a lead of just 12 thousandths of a second – the equivalent of 82 centimeters on his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton. The two travel in the Black through the season, the silver arrows have a new look – as a sign of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

“I feel, great, these emotions have all I need,” said Bottas: “Thank you to the Team, we have done a great Job. We are in a League of its own.“ In fact. Red-Bull-Pilot Max verse has to fall as the third a backlog of around half a second. “We show every year that we are the best Team. We are pushing the boundaries further and further,“ said Hamilton, who will be this year for the seventh Time world champion and with a record-breaking champion Michael Schumacher.

Others can only dream about. Charles Leclerc? Place seven. Sebastian Vettel? Eleventh. A Disaster in Red. “This is certainly not our claim, but at the Moment is no longer there,” said Vettel. Of the thirty-three year old will leave the Team at the end of the season after the Scuderia had made no new contract offer.

prior to the qualification of the responsible of Ferrari design acknowledged error in the race car with the type designation SF1000. At the race in Hungary in two weeks to go, therefore a revised Version at the Start. Until then, much more than optimism remains: “Maybe the race comes to us,” said Vettel: “In the Longrun we should be a little bit stronger.” Rain is not predicted.

On Saturday were not only both Mercedes and Red Bull – Alex Albon, the Fifth – faster, even, Lando Norris in the McLaren (4.) and Sergio Perez in the Racing Point (6.) pushed in front of Leclerc. Like the new Ferrari-reality looks, showed a radio message from the Monegasques in the second section of the qualification, as he made sure if his time was not sufficient for the final of the Ten best. She did – at least for him.