Valtteri Bottas secured pole for the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix, edging team-mate Lewis Hamilton as Mercedes secured a front row lock-out.
Bottas led Raikkonen after the first runs in Q3, which also saw Hamilton run wide into Turn 2 to lap half a second slower than his team-mate.
Bottas then managed to shave a further tenth-and-a-half of his own session-leading lap, setting a new lap record of 1m03.130s to best Hamilton by just 0.019s.
Sebastian Vettel also made a mistake on his initial attempt as he became the latest driver to run wide at Turn 4. Clipping the gravel trap, Vettel was sitting in seventh following the completion of the first runs.
He managed to put his error behind him, however, to beat Ferrari stable-mate Kimi Raikkonen to third behind the two silver arrows by just under two-tenths of a second.
Vettel’s third place remains provisional for the moment however, with the German being investigated for blocking Carlos Sainz towards the end of Q2.
Max Verstappen secured best of the rest in fifth for Red Bull’s home race, while Ricciardo could only manage seventh in the second RB14.
Romain Grosjean continued his strong weekend by qualifying his Haas in a superb sixth position to split the Red Bulls. Kevin Magnussen backed up his team-mate in eighth place, just ahead of the two Renaults of Sainz and Nico Hulkenberg.
Esteban Ocon put his Force India 11th on the grid, shading Pierre Gasly’s Honda-powered Toro Rosso by just three-hundredths of a second.
Charles Leclerc once again outqualified team-mate Marcus Ericsson in 13th place, but will start 18th following a gearbox change after suffering a failure of the component during FP3.
This will be small consolation for Fernando Alonso however, who could only manage to drag his McLaren into what will now be 13th on the grid, as the Woking-based squad’s 2018 woes continue with Stoffel Vandoorne starting 15th following Leclerc’s penalty.
Sergio Perez was a surprise Q1 victim, the Mexican only managing to qualify his Force India 17th, failing to reach the second round of qualifying for the first time this season.
Marcus Ericsson and Sergey Sirotkin were denied a final last gasp Q1 effort after Leclerc ran wide on the exit of Turn 4, bringing out the yellow flags as a result and relegating the pair to an early qualifying exit.
