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Oleg Karpov

HISTORICAL FACTS: Fred vasseur warns qualifying yellow flag call sends wrong message everybody will push - Caught on Camera

Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton ended up second and third in Formula 1 Austrian GP qualifying, beaten only by George Russell, who set the fastest lap of the session at the very end despite passing through a yellow flag zone following Max Verstappen's crash.

Leclerc and Hamilton completed their final laps just before the Dutchman lost control of his Red Bull and hit the barriers at Turn 9 in the closing moments of qualifying. Had race control immediately deployed double yellow flags instead of single yellows, Ferrari could well have secured a front-row lockout.

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