George Russell scored a shock win on the Austrian GP after Max Verstappen and Lando Norris collided whereas battling for the lead. This handed Mercedes its first win because the 2022 Brazilian GP.

McLaren did have one driver on the rostrum, with Oscar Piastri ending second, adopted by Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.

1. Russell wins, 1.906 secs forward of Piastri
2. Norris retires after colliding with Verstappen
3. Verstappen finishes P5

Verstappen, Norris collide

Verstappen held a cushty lead for majority of the race, however that got here undone after the final spherical of pitstops. The Red Bull driver dived into the pits on Lap 52/71, however misplaced a piece of time on account of a problem with the left-rear wheelnut. He remained within the lead as he re-joined the monitor, however Norris was now lower than two seconds behind him.

Crucially, Norris was on recent medium tyres, whereas Verstappen was on a used set. Taking benefit of this, Norris quickly obtained into DRS vary and made a handful of makes an attempt to overhaul. The McLaren driver obtained forward on Lap 59, however went off the monitor to take action and needed to hand the place again. However, since this was Norris’ fourth monitor limits breach, he was handed a five-second time penalty.

As the battle continued, simply two laps later Verstappen ran off the monitor whereas making an attempt to defend his lead. The two then dramatically collided on Lap 64, leading to each drivers selecting up punctures. Norris was pressured to retire because of the injury sustained, however Verstappen was in a position to re-join the monitor in fifth place. However, the stewards did maintain Verstappen liable for the conflict and gave him a 10-second time penalty.

Russell places Mercedes again on the highest step

Russell inherited the lead and held on to it until the chequered flag to assert his second F1 victory.  “I believe it was a tricky battle on the market in the beginning of the race simply to carry onto that P3,” he stated after the race.

“I noticed on the TV that Max and Lando had been going fairly onerous, I knew Lando would wish to attempt to get that race win, however the staff have accomplished an incredible job to get us on this battle. You’ve obtained be there on the finish to choose up the items, and that’s the place we had been.”

Piastri completed 1.906 secs behind in second place, however the McLaren driver admitted that “it hurts a little bit” to return that near victory. He was on track for a top-three lead to qualifying earlier than his lap time was deleted on account of a monitor limits violation. This dropped him to P7 on the beginning grid.

Sainz accomplished the rostrum in third place, adopted by Lewis Hamilton. Despite his penalty, Verstappen held on to fifth place.

Haas stroll away from the Austrian GP with a powerful factors haul after Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen completed P6 and P8, respectively. The two had been cut up by Red Bull’s Sergio Perez in seventh place.  RB’s Daniel Ricciardo and Alpine’s Pierre Gasly rounded out the highest 10.

2024 F1 championship standings

Even after a tough race, Verstappen has prolonged his championship result in 81 factors over Norris. Charles Leclerc is third general, six factors behind Norris.

F1 will now head to Silverstone for the British GP on July 5-7.

2024 F1 Austrian GP outcomes

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