What happened in the incident? The collision that ended Max Verstappen and Lando Norris’ increasingly fraught battle for Austrian GP victory – and ultimately the McLaren driver’s race – occurred on lap 64 of 71 at the Red Bull Ring. A rare slow pit stop from Red Bull for Verstappen 12 laps beforehand had given…
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff admitted a mistimed radio message to George Russell during the closing stages of his Austrian Grand Prix victory was “the dumbest thing” he has ever done in Formula 1. Russell was running in third when leader Max Verstappen collided with second-placed Lando Norris, with the Red Bull driver forced to pit…
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella says Max Verstappen’s over-aggressive driving against Lando Norris during the Austrian Grand Prix was a consequence of the Dutchman not having been penalised for driving similarly against Lewis Hamilton in 2021. Verstappen was attempting to hold off Norris for the lead at the Red Bull Ring on Sunday when the…
Lando Norris says he will “lose a lot of respect” for Max Verstappen if his championship rival doesn’t accept responsibility for causing a collision between them as they battled for the lead of the Austrian Grand Prix. McLaren’s Norris was attempting to pass Red Bull’s Verstappen with eight laps to go when the pair made…
Yuki Tsunoda has been fined €40,000 after making an offensive comment about a fellow Formula 1 driver during Austrian Grand Prix qualifying. Tsunoda, who competes for Red Bull’s junior team, RB, took aim at Sauber’s Zhou Guanyu over the radio after he believed he was obstructed in the pit-lane. The 24-year-old Japanese driver used an…
Max Verstappen claimed his 40th F1 pole position by beating Lando Norris in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix. Verstappen, who won the Sprint earlier on Saturday, has been on top form all weekend and took pole by four tenths from Norris on the shortest track on the calendar in terms of lap time. Oscar…
Oscar Piastri branded the decision to delete his third-fastest lap time in qualifying for the Austrian GP “embarrassing”, before McLaren’s protest against the decision was rejected. The McLaren driver was relegated from the head of the second row to seventh after Race Control ruled he had transgressed track limits at Turn Six by going with…
Lando Norris says he is “excited” to see if McLaren can mount a challenge against Max Verstappen in Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix by maintaining their strong recent race pace. As had been the case in Sprint Qualifying on Friday, Norris qualified second behind Red Bull’s Verstappen on Saturday, but the 0.4s margin between the top…
Max Verstappen withstood a fierce early challenge from the McLarens to win the Austrian GP Sprint for Red Bull. Verstappen led away from pole but came under big pressure from Lando Norris in the early laps with the McLaren driver making a bold move to seize the lead at the start of lap five in…
Lewis Hamilton lamented his performance in Sprint Qualifying after putting his Mercedes car sixth for Saturday morning’s race at the Austrian Grand Prix. The seven-time world champion had an off-track moment in SQ1, had to battle with traffic ahead of him, and then finished over half a second behind Sprint polesitter Max Verstappen in the…
