Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton put Mercedes on pole position for the 2016 Austrian Grand Prix with Mercedes team mate and overall championship leader Nico Rosberg set to start seventh after a grid penalty.
Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg will join the Briton on the front row, with McLaren’s Jenson Button third thanks to five- place penalties for Rosberg and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, who qualified second and fourth respectively.
Rosberg, who leads Hamilton by 24 points ahead of Sunday’s race, crashed in final practice and required a gearbox change to his car, thus triggering the penalty.
The final phase of qualifying took place on a drying track, with the leaderboard constantly changing, after rain at the end of the second session. The pole was Hamilton’s second in a row in Austria and 54th of his career.
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