It was the Mercedes driver's record-extending 89th career pole and particularly impressive as he first beat Red Bull driver Max Verstappen's mark and then his own leading mark on his final lap.
In the event of a complete washout Saturday, qualifying could be moved to Sunday morning with the race set to start at 3:10 p.m.
Verstappen was .043 seconds quicker than Valtteri Bottas — Hamilton's teammate at Mercedes — and .217 ahead of Racing Point driver Sergio Perez.
The Tuscan GP at the Mugello circuit will be held on Sept. 13, the week after the Italian GP in Monza. They will be followed by the Russian GP at the Sochi Autodrom on Sept. 27.
Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso will return to Formula One in the 2021 season with Renault.
Kallenius has now said that the two Mercedes drivers have been performing at the highest level for a while now and there is no point in tinkering with the line-up.
Lewis Hamilton said that while he will continue to take the knee, nobody should be forced to do so.
That’s a tall order with six-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton as his teammate at Mercedes. Especially as Hamilton needs one more title to equal Michael Schumacher's record of seven.
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas wins Formula One's season-opening Austrian GP, with Charles Leclerc finishing second and Lando Norris doing enough to squeeze out Lewis Hamilton to take the third spot.
World champion Lewis Hamilton, the only black driver in F1, wore a T-shirt with Black Lives Matter on the front and End Racism on the back.
The Finnish driver edged out the world champion by .012 seconds at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg.
After a four-month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic, the season is kicking off in Austria on Sunday with the first of eight European races.
Soccer players on fields in England and Germany have taken the knee together simultaneously before games in support of the Black Lives Matter movement
F1 has its first race on Sunday in Austria, four months after the opening race in Australia was cancelled and the season postponed.
The British driver was .356 seconds ahead of his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas on the 4.3-kilometer (2.7-mile) Red Bull Ring circuit in Spielberg
Vettel, who is currently gearing up for the much-anticipated Austrian GP, also revealed he hasn't held discussions with other teams over a possible move next season.
Hamilton has spoken widely about racism in recent weeks following the killing of George Floyd -- a handcuffed and unarmed Black man -- by a police officer in Minneapolis in May.
Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas will race black-liveried Mercedes cars when the former targets Schumacher's record as F1 returns this week
Six-time champion Hamilton, who is gunning to equal Schumacher's all-time record of seven titles, stated everyone will have to follow changes put in place by the authorities for the sport to operate successfully in the wake of the pandemic.
The Mercedes driver said the aim of the Hamilton Commission would be to make the sport “become as diverse as the complex and multicultural world we live in.”
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