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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Daniel Moxon

Austrian Grand Prix shocker for Lewis Hamilton as Mercedes point blame at Max Verstappen

Lewis Hamilton will start the Austrian Grand Prix Sprint race from near the back of the grid after a nightmare qualifying session for the Brit.

The Sprint format returns for this weekend and, for the second time, the final practice session has been scrapped. Instead, the drivers now have a second qualifying session to set the grid for the Sprint race later on Saturday.

And Hamilton will now have his work cut out to reach the points positions in that session later today, as he could only set the 18th fastest time of that second qualifying.

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