Jenson Button joked F1 should be run in changeable conditions every weekend after a "mega" qualifying session in Austria left him third on the grid for Sunday's race.
Showers hit the Red Bull Ring ahead of Q3 and forced the drivers on to wet tyres early in the session, but the rain soon eased off, allowing the track to dry out. That prompted a switch to dry tyres and Button qualified fifth, which becomes third once Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel serve gearbox penalties.
Some of Button's most memorable drives have come in similar conditions and, on arriving in the media pen after qualifying, he joked: "I love those conditions! Can we have that every race?"
Button had originally thought he was only set to gain one place, but when told Rosberg also had a penalty he said: "P3? Wow. I knew that so I didn't push too hard [laughs] .... That's mega. It was an enjoyable session, I thought it was all over in Q2, I locked up into Turn 3.
"At Turns 1 and 2 it was spitting and I didn't think it would affect me but it think it did into Turn 3 and I just ran wide and was like 'oh no' but just stayed in. Q3 we called it right at the end -- on the wets we were quick and on the dry we weren't bad either."
Button thinks his smooth driving style makes it easy to master a drying track as he did in Spielberg.
"Yes it did. I don't know. I think some of it is just the way that I drive, it's just different. There are some conditions where I can't get the best out of the car and there are conditions when I can, because of the driving style I have, I feel it corner by corner I feel the grip I have when I enter the corner instead of memory from the last lap. Really happy and great to start third, it's just a shame I'm not in the [top three] press conference!"
Third could well become second for Button as Nico Hulkenberg was under investigation for failing to slow under yellow flags in Q1, though Force India appeared to be confident the German had lifted sufficiently.