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F1 Styrian GP Live Commentary and Updates - race day
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Perez asks for more power in the straights, as he struggles to inch closer to Norris ahead of him.
Seemed to be a transponder issue with Stroll there - he dropped to 19th on the timing screen, but he's back up in sixth now.
Towards the front, Norris remains ahead of Perez - with Bottas chasing the pair.
TV replays reveal the fallout of events - Gasly, Leclerc and Alonso tried to go three-wide at Turn 2 and Gasly's left-rear tyre hit Leclerc's front wing to trigger a puncture. Gasly and his limping car then get swallowed up by the pack which causes the second clash at Turn 3.
Latifi also appeared to get caught up in the secondary clash at Turn 3 between Gasly and Giovinazzi, and the incidents have littered debris across that part of the track. Latifi is down in P19 having also pitted.
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Verstappen sets a 1m10.031s, opening the gap to Hamilton ahead - but the Mercedes driver reports some debris hitting his right-front tyre.
Stroll's had an excellent start and he's charged up to sixth as a result of that Leclerc/Gasly contact - but has Alonso in hot pursuit.
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Gasly and Leclerc make contact in the midfield in the run to Turn 3 on the opening lap and both pick up damage. Gasly then makes contact with Giovinazzi at Turn 3, while Leclerc pits with a puncture.
Verstappen gets a good start and holds the line from Hamilton, with a tasty battle between Perez and Norris over third - which Norris takes back!
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The Styrian Grand Prix begins!
The cars start to line up ready - here we go...
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The formation lap is underway.
We've got Norris, Perez, Gasly, Leclerc, Alonso, Stroll and Tsunoda on softs, Raikkonen on hards, and everyone else on the medium tyre.
Verstappen and Hamilton line up for the front row - Hamilton will have the inside line, so Verstappen will have to make a better getaway than he did in France to hang onto P1.
Will the opening couple of corners be clean, or are we going to get a few cars finding each other in Turn 3?
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Let's check in with the weather: air temperature of 26.4 degrees C, track at 53.5 degrees. Also, a risk of rain of apparently 40%.
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10 minutes, then, until the race begins.
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Coming up, we've got the conclusion of our first instalment of the Red Bull Ring double header - fingers crossed it's good fun.
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