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Kimi Raikkonen will start the Austrian Grand Prix from third on the grid, behind polesitter Valtteri Bottas and teammate Sebastian Vettel. Raikkonen set the fourth fastest time in Q3, but will be promoted one spot due to Lewis Hamilton's penalty.
The Finn was also disgruntled a number of times in the session by traffic, particularly with Jolyon Palmer in Q1. Palmer was going slowly on the entry to Turn 10 while Raikkonen was approaching it to complete his hot lap. The stewards looked into the incident but decided on no further action.
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"I think it was on my second lap, it was an okay lap but obviously on the last corner he [Palmer] slowed down," said Raikkonen. "I don't know whatever happened but I also had to slow down a lot and then we had to use another set of tyres, which was not the plan. Obviously that was not ideal.
"Then in Q2 everything was okay, even if we had to change the plan a little bit and then in Q3 it was not too bad, apart from there were some cars in the last sector, between Turns 8 and 9, and that didn't help.
"Then on the second lap there were yellow flags and we couldn't finish it. It was not ideal but yesterday we had a tricky day, and in qualifying I think the car was pretty okay.
"It was getting better all the time, so considering how bad or how difficult depends on how you want to look at it the car was yesterday, we're going to start third tomorrow, so that's at least something good, it could have been an awful lot worse."
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