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They completed a third victory for the German team after its 2016 and ’20 wins with BMW and Porsche respectively in the double-points round of the GT World Challenge Europe by 11.1s over the second-placed Auto Sport Promotion Mercedes shared by Raffaele Marciello, Jules Gounon and Timur Boguslavskiy.

Lap one of the Austrian Grand Prix went well for Hamilton who overtook Lando Norris – but the rest of his afternoon was a disaster including a public telling-off from Mercedes chief Wolff

The sleek-looking two-door will replace the C-Class coupe and the E-Class coupe.

F1 rivals Verstappen and Hamilton were involved in a flashpoint at the Red Bull Ring on Saturday, after which Mercedes chief Wolff made it clear he was unimpressed

Russell's admission came during an off-beat weekend in Austria, in which he was knocked out of Q2 of grand prix qualifying in 11th by Williams driver Alex Albon.

The sun finally burst through the clouds overlooking the Red Bull Ring on Saturday evening – three hours after the Austrian Grand Prix sprint race had concluded. Rain and low-hanging, misty cloud had otherwise prevailed on a day of glory, reflected tragedy and controversy in the Styrian mountains. 

Toto Wolff did, however, call Verstappen’s driving at Turn 1, after the Red Bull driver had been held up by Hamilton at the final corner with just 12 seconds remaining in Q1, a “revenge foul”.  

On Saturday Verstappen won the sprint race from pole position and can complete the clean sweep on Sunday as he starts from pole for the grand prix, after topping Friday’s qualifying. 

Max Verstappen will start Red Bull's home race from pole position after topping qualifying for the fourth successive occasion.