Miscommunication between team and driver led to an unsatisfactory Qualifying performance from Valtteri Bottas, with the Finnish driver setting only the fourth fastest time when pole position was his target at the Red Bull Ring on Saturday. The Mercedes AMG Motorsport driver will move up one spot to third on the grid thanks to a three-place grid penalty for his team-mate Lewis Hamilton, which came as a result of the Briton impeding Alfa Romeo Racing’s Kimi Räikkönen during the early stages of Q1 at turn three. Never-the-less, Bottas was displeased with the outcome of Qualifying, with his team saying he did not have time to back up and find a gap in the traffic only for it to come to...
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