2-4 July 2021-Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria
71 laps-307.02 km (circuit length=4.326 km)
Yesterday, Max Verstappen had his third victory in a row, and his first “Grand Slam” weekend with the fastest lap, pole and victory. Lewis Hamilton started the race from P4 on the grid, worked his way up on the second place after an amazing fight with the McLaren driver Lando Norris, who started from the front row on the grid. Unfortunately, Lewis slowed his pace, after he ran over the exit kerbs. That allowed his teammate Valterri Bottas and Lando Norris to get past him and placed Lewis in 4th place.
The safety car was called on Lap 1 after Esteban Ocon had an incident with Giovinazzi , that damaged “his right front wheel and immediately putting him out of the race.”
Lando Norris had an amazing season so far being the only driver to score points at every race, and also an amazing weekend in Austria where he finished in third place and got voted “Driver of The Day”. He started the race in the front row, he was overtaken by Hamilton after the first 20 laps, (After the “fight” the seven-time world champion told his team over the radio “Such a great driver, Lando.”).
At the start of the race, there was a penalty controversy with him and the Red Bull driver Sergio Perez, the stewards said “He had not given Perez sufficient room in their lap-four tussle and so forced the Red Bull off the track.” Norris served his 5-seconds penalty at his first pit stop and unfortunately dropped behind Bottas. He later said “You understeer around the corner anyway, he should have expected he wasn’t going to make it. I don’t know, I’m just annoyed because it cost us P2.”; “People are racing, and he’s tried something that hasn’t worked. His fault not mine.”. However, Perez picked up penalties of his own.
On lap 30 (i think), Mercedes instructed Valterri to follow the McLaren into the pit lane (knowing that they had to serve the penalty) , this resulted to Bottas getting ahead of Norris.
George Russell still doesn’t have any points for Williams. I think we all thought Russell will finally end in the points but unfortunately Alonso came up behind him on “fresher tyres” in turn 4 and sent Russell out of the points. Fernando later said :“I felt a little bit sad for George because he drove an amazing weekend, and when I saw P10 was him, I was hoping anyone apart from him…but that’s the sport.”
At the back, there was a lot of action between the drivers Gasly, Ricciardo, Leclerc, Perez and more. Like I mentioned earlier, Perez picked up penalties of his own, when he did a similar mistake with the Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc that ran into the gravel and Perez was quickly handed a five-second penalty. Later, Perez got another penalty for running Leclerc off the road at Turn 7.
Before the last lap, Carlos Sainz got past his team mate, before taking Ricciardo for P6 on the road. And on the final lap Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel got involved on a crash as they exited turn 4, they “clashed wheels and both ran spectacularly across the gravel”.
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Congratulations to Max, Valterri and Lando👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🧡🧡🧡
Credits: Telekom Sport; Formula 1™️ ;Sky Sports News; McLaren and my memory😂😂😂 + notes I took while watching the race
P.S. I’m very sorry if there are mistakes (spelling mistakes or even mistakes including the information) please send me a message if there are any 🥺🥺 also if there is missing information it’s because I haven’t noticed or saw live😬