F1: Bottas beats Hamilton to pole in Austria - MotorSportsTalk

Mercedes continued its dominant form in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix, but it was not Lewis Hamilton on pole.

Instead, teammate Valtteri Bottas beat Hamilton by one hundredth of a second to claim his first pole of the 2018 season.

It gives Bottas his fifth career pole, and his second in Austria – he also won the pole last year, and went to on win the next day.

A magic moment for @ValtteriBottas as he claims the fifth pole of his career #AustrianGP 🇦🇹 #F1 pic.twitter.com/25FjTqFPP4

— Formula 1 (@F1) June 30, 2018

Ferrari teammates Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen qualified third and fourth, though Vettel will be penalized three grid places for impeding Renault’s Carlos Sainz Jr. As such, Vettel will start sixth.

BREAKING: Sebastian Vettel will serve a three-place grid penalty at Sunday's #AustrianGP

This incident with Carlos Sainz has been reviewed by the Stewards #F1 pic.twitter.com/vOUchcBB68

— Formula 1 (@F1) June 30, 2018

Red Bull Racing utilized an odd strategy in which they tried to get the RB18s of Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo to slip stream each other for better straight-line speed, but it ultimately backfired and created tension within the team – Ricciardo voiced his displeasure over the radio that it pointless for him to “punch a hole” for his teammate.

Verstappen ended up fifth with Ricciardo in seventh, with Haas F1’s Romain Grosjean putting himself in between them in sixth.

Grosjean’s teammate Kevin Magnussen was eighth in a solid outing for Haas, with Renault teammates Sainz and Nico Hulkenberg filling out the top 10.

Results are below. Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix rolls off at 9:00 a.m. ET.

Q3 CLASSIFICATION: Pole last year, pole this – well done, @ValtteriBottas 👏 #AustrianGP 🇦🇹 #F1 pic.twitter.com/tqtv6qxQRG

— Formula 1 (@F1) June 30, 2018

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DETROIT — Alex Palou topped the results of an NTT IndyCar Series race for the second time this season, extending his championship points lead with his victory in the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix.

The Chip Ganassi Racing driver, who also won the GMR Grand Prix (and the Indy 500 pole position) last month, holds a 51-point lead over teammate Marcus Ericsson (ninth at Detroit) through seven of 17 races this season.

Ganassi, which placed all four of its drivers in the top 10 at Detroit, has three of the top four in the championship standings with Scott Dixon ranked fourth after a fourth at Detroit.

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Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden is third in the standings after taking a 10th at Detroit. Pato O’Ward slipped to fifth in the points after crashing and finishing 26th

Here are the IndyCar results and points standings after the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix:

RESULTS

Click here for the official box score from the 100-lap race on a nine-turn, 1.645-mile street course in downtown Detroit.

Here is the finishing order in the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix with starting position in parentheses, driver, engine, laps completed and reason out (if any):

1. (1) Alex Palou, Honda, 100, Running
2. (7) Will Power, Chevrolet, 100, Running
3. (9) Felix Rosenqvist, Chevrolet, 100, Running
4. (4) Scott Dixon, Honda, 100, Running
5. (13) Alexander Rossi, Chevrolet, 100, Running
6. (12) Kyle Kirkwood, Honda, 100, Running
7. (2) Scott McLaughlin, Chevrolet, 100, Running
8. (11) Marcus Armstrong, Honda, 100, Running
9. (6) Marcus Ericsson, Honda, 100, Running
10. (5) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 100, Running
11. (24) Colton Herta, Honda, 100, Running
12. (17) Devlin DeFrancesco, Honda, 100, Running
13. (8) Simon Pagenaud, Honda, 100, Running
14. (20) Agustin Canapino, Chevrolet, 100, Running
15. (15) Conor Daly, Chevrolet, 100, Running
16. (18) Christian Lundgaard, Honda, 100, Running
17. (25) Jack Harvey, Honda, 100, Running
18. (14) Rinus VeeKay, Chevrolet, 100, Running
19. (23) Helio Castroneves, Honda, 100, Running
20. (19) Benjamin Pedersen, Chevrolet, 97, Running
21. (22) Santino Ferrucci, Chevrolet, 97, Running
22. (26) Sting Ray Robb, Honda, 97, Running
23. (21) David Malukas, Honda, 85, Contact
24. (3) Romain Grosjean, Honda, 80, Contact
25. (27) Graham Rahal, Honda, 50, Contact
26. (10) Pato O’Ward, Chevrolet, 41, Contact
27. (16) Callum Ilott, Chevrolet, 1, Contact

Winner’s average speed: 80.922 mph; Time of Race: 02:01:58.1171; Margin of victory: 1.1843 seconds; Cautions: 7 for 32 laps; Lead changes: 10 among seven drivers. Lap Leaders: Palou 1-28; Power 29-33; O’Ward 34; Palou 35-55; Power 56-64; Palou 65; Rossi 66; Newgarden 67-68; Kirkwood 69; Ericsson 70-76; Palou 77-100.

POINTS

Click here for the points tally in the race.

Here are the points standings after the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix:

Top 10 in points: Palou 273, Ericsson 222, Newgarden 203, Dixon 194, O’Ward 191, Rossi 176, McLaughlin 175, Power 172, Herta 149, Rosenqvist 148.

Rest of the standings: Grosjean 145, Kirkwood 142, Lundgaard 136, Ilott 116, VeeKay 108, Ferrucci 105, Armstrong 101, Rahal 99, Malukas 91, Daly 88, DeFrancesco 81, Castroneves 80, Harvey 78, Canapino 77, Pagenaud 72, Pedersen 61, Robb 55, Takuma Sato 37, Ed Carpenter 27, Ryan Hunter-Reay 20, Tony Kanaan 18, Marco Andretti 13, RC Enerson 5, Katherine Legge 5.

Next race: IndyCar will head to Road America for the Sonsio Grand Prix, which will take place June 18 with coverage starting at 1 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.