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It's time for the Austrian GP at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg with Valtteri Bottas on pole!

Updated: 09 July 2017 19:03 IST - Published: July, 09 2017 05:30 PM IST

It's also Bottas' second ever Grand Prix win! His first came at the Russian Grand Prix this year.

Phenomenal driving from an excitable Daniel Ricciardo, with Bottas driving clinically and cleanly this year.

Sebastian Vettel now extends his championship lead to 20 points with Hamilton finishing in P4!

Phenomenal racing in the end for the front two rows with some solid two battles - P1-P2 and P3-P4!

Sebastian Vettel is in P2 and Daniel Ricciardo finishes up the podium for P3

VALTTERI BOTTAS WINS THE AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX!!!

LAST LAP!!!!!! Hamilton tries to get the inside of Ricciardo and Ricciardo PULLS away! He's still in P3 and Valtteri Bottas really having to fight off Vettel now.

Vettel reduces the gap and DRASTICALLY!!

Mercedes do better in straightline, but Vettel now in DRS range of Valtteri Bottas, and he's closed gap to 1.2s #AustrianGP
— Anuradha Santhanam (@anumccartney) July 9, 2017

Bottas has to push on and with Vettel now really hunting for that win, he's inching closer and closer. Meanwhile Ham only +1.37s behind Ricciardio in P3, and gaining time REALLY quick.

Hamilton's blistering badly but with only 7 laps to go, no box! Two good fights on. P3-P4 and P1-P2!

Checo Perez reporting there's rain at turn 9. We've got 7 laps to go still..

That said he still hits another fastest lap and Daniel Ricciardo will want to watch out now!

Lewis Hamilton's tyres don't look in great condition right now with the right rear blistered quite deeply. As is the right left.

Carlos Sainz says despite P10 start he missed tyre changes and had a 'lack of power' which made him miss out on results.

Bottas pushing for pace now. We've got 13 laps in this race.

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HUL
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Bottas has a 3.2s advantage over P2 Vettel and he'll want more pace if he wants to keep his lead for the next 16 laps.

FASTEST SECTORS

HAM = 🔥

He's also broken the LAP RECORD at Spielberg

A 1:07.867 beats Michael Schumacher's 1:08.337 (2003)#AustrianGP pic.twitter.com/CbsqxRadA7
— Formula 1 (@F1) July 9, 2017

2.4seconds between P8 Esteban Ocon (Force India) and Massa in P9.

Jolyon Palmer has kept himself in the race - big stuff for him, but he's just outside the points.

Pit for Kimi and he's back out on the ultrasofts! He pits at P2 and comes back out in P5.

Back in P1 is Bottas! Kimi now in P2 behind him and Vettel in third. Fresh tyres working some wonders.

Kimi now in the lead! Bottas comes out in P2 after pitting and Vettel in P3. Kimi is still to pit, though...

Ricciardo also boxes for supersofts, and Hamilton is now gaining on him quickly.

Box for Ferrari and Vettel gets on to supersofts. Kimi in P2 now, Vettel out of pits in P3.

HAM pits and exits without losing a position!

Hamilton gets a set of ultrasofts now! He pits at P5

Hydraulic failure for Haas' Kevin Magnussen and his race is over.

Kevin Magnussen's race is ending. Surely. Car coming to a slowdown and smoke is coming out of the back. Not great news. Gearbox failure, seems like.

Force India in P7 and P8 now - Perez and Ocon respectively!

Hamilton trying to catch Kimi in P4, and Ferrari doesn't have the best time in other cars' slipstream.

Investigation completed. No jump start for Valtteri Bottas. He'll keep his race win, if he keeps the lead till the end. Ricciardo P3, 4.2s behind Vettel in P2.

RE Valtteri Bottas - no revelation on the jump start investigation just yet but he's just set a new fastest lap.

Ultrasofts are blistering for everyone here. Kimi Raikkonen has reported front left tyre blister - he'll look to pit soon.

Smart from them if we're thinking of rain.

Meanwhile Williams going split strategies. Stroll on the supersofts and Massa on soft.

Whether or not you're a fan of Lewis Hamilton, you can't deny his talent. He's already quickly up to P5 from 8th, and quickly.

Daniil Kvyat is still out there. After knocking out Alonso and Verstappen he'll get a drive-through penalty.

Toro Rosso really having a difficult day of this. Carlos Sainz over the team radio sounds tired and exasperated and we're not sure what the problem is. Team now asking him to push on.

Lewis Hamilton takes the inside line on Sergio Perez in one of the cleanest overtakes we've seen in a bit. He's up in P6 already now.

Force India's Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon in P7 and P8 respectively. Great stuff from both drivers all season, and the Austrian GP is no different!

Valtteri Bottas is now under investigation for a jump start. He's way in the lead at this point but might lose that to Sebastian Vettel.

Daniil Kvyat misjudges his overtake, hits the back of Alonso, who spins and hits Verstappen. One Toro Rosso takes out a McLaren and RBR.
— Anuradha Santhanam (@anumccartney) July 9, 2017

"They cannot play bowling," says Fernando Alonso. It was Toro Rossos Kvyat who hits Alonso, who veers into Verstappen. Kvyat's quite the bowling ball here.

Great stuff from Williams' Felipe Massa and Lance Stroll who move up from near the back of the grid to P9 and 10 !

Raikkonen back in P4.

DNF for Max Verstappen, who's asked to retire.

So is Fernando Alonso. But that second sentence has sadly become far too common. DNF for McLaren's Fernando Alonso then.

Haas' Romain Grosjean in P4 - but Max Verstappen's car sounds bad. Very bad.

Lewis Hamilton loses a place to Force India's Sergio Perez. Vettel lags a bit in P2 behind Bottas; Daniel Ricciardo, who won the race in Baku, is pushing hard at Vettel! He's gained a place on Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.

Great start for Bottas - but not so much for Max Verstappen - he spins out!

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