Then in Turn 3 he collided with the Alfa Romeo of Antonio Giovinazzi. The collisions left Gasly with heavy damage at the left rear corner of his car and he limped back to the pits to retire as Leclerc also pitted for repairs.
By lap 10 of the short and fast Red Bull Ring Verstappen had managed to pull out a three-second gap to Hamilton, while behind him Pérez was closing on Norris. The Mexican got the job done in Turn 3 of the same lap, diving down the inside of the McLaren driver to steal the podium place.
Bottas pulled off a similar move on the McLaren but Pérez’s pace was strong and by lap 15 he had already extended the gap to the Finn to 3.5 seconds. Pérez was the first of the leaders to make a pit stop.
The Mexican headed for the pits on lap 27 but when he stopped on his marks there was a problem with the rear left wheel and he spent a costly 4.8 seconds stationary before being released with a set of new hard tyres. The delay prompted Mercedes to pit Bottas at the end of the next lap and after a clean switch to hard tyres the Finn rejoined in third place ahead of Pérez.
Hamilton was the next of the leaders in and he too made a good stop of 2.2s as he attempt to undercut Max. The Team responded, however, and after a brilliant stop of two seconds, the Dutchman rejoined in the lead, over four seconds clear of his championship rival.
Pérez then began to chip away at the gap to Bottas and by lap 42 he was just 2.8s behind the Finn. At the front Verstappen was managing the pace well and the gap to Hamilton remained stable at 4.4s. At the front, Verstappen slowly but surely began to pull away from Hamilton and on lap 48 the gap had stretched to 6.5 seconds.
Pérez, meanwhile, was still trying to find a way past Bottas. He steadily chipped away at the Finn’s advantage and on lap 49 was just 1.6s behind the Mercedes man. He could find no way past, however, and at the end of lap 55 the Team brought the Mexican into the pits for a new set of medium tyres.
He quickly began to set purple laps and with 10 laps to go had turned a 18s deficit to the Finn to a gap of just 11 seconds. Five laps later and the gap was under six seconds. With just a few laps remaining, the race to overhaul Bottas was always going to be close and despite a heroic effort in the end Pérez missed out by a tiny margin, crossing the line in fourth place, just 0.5s behind the Finn.
Verstappen was in cruise control at the front of the pack. With 15 seconds in hand over Hamilton in the final stages, Mercedes AMG went into damage limitation mode. On the penultimate lap Hamilton headed for the pits and took on a set of soft tyres. He claimed the race fastest lap on the final lap and reduced the damage caused by Verstappen to seven points.
After crossing the line 35s ahead of Hamilton to claim Red Bull’s third victory at its home track after Austrian Grand Prix wins in 2018 and 2019, Verstappen now leads the Drivers’ championship on 156 points, 18 ahead of Hamilton. Pérez, in third place, now has 96 points, 10 ahead of Norris.
In the battle for the Constructors’ championship crown Red Bull Racing now have 156 points, 40 ahead of Mercedes AMG. Behind the top four, Lando Norris took 10 valuable points for McLaren with fifth place. The result keeps McLaren in third in the Constructors’ Championship, on 120 points, 12 clear of Ferrari.
After a difficult build up to the race the Scuderia enjoyed a profitable afternoon with Carlos Sainz Jr. working a long stint well to rise up the order and eventually claim sixth place after starting from P12.
Team-mate Charle Leclerc pitted at the end of the first lap following his clash with Gasly and dropped to the rear of the field. The Monegasque driver made an excellent comeback, however, to finish seventh ahead of Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll and Alpine’s Fernando Alonso. The final point on offer was taken by AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda.
| STYRIAN GRAND PRIX - RED BULL RING 71 круга,; 306.452км., Време: Сончево |
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| CLASSIFIED: | |||
| P. | DRIVER | TEAM | TIME/GAP |
| 1. | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1h22:50.683 |
| 2. | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes AMG | + 35.743 |
| 3. | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes AMG | + 46.907 |
| 4. | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull | + 47.434 |
| 5. | Lando Norris | McLaren | + 1 lap |
| 6. | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Ferrari |
+ 1 lap |
| 7. | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | + 1 lap |
| 8. | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | + 1 lap |
| 9. | Fernando Alonso | Alpine | + 1 lap |
| 10. | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | + 1 lap |
| 11. | Kimi Räikkönen | Alfa Romeo | + 1 lap |
| 12. | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin | + 1 lap |
| 13. | Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren | + 1 lap |
| 14. | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | + 1 lap |
| 15. | Antonio Giovinazzi | Alfa Romeo | + 1 lap |
| 16. | Mick Schumacher | Haas | + 2 laps |
| 17. | Nicholas Latifi | Williams | + 3 laps |
| 18. | Nikita Mazepin | Haas | + 3 laps |
| FASTEST LAP: LEWIS HAMILTON - 1:07.058 | |||
| NOT CLASSIFIED: | |||
| 19. | George Russell | Williams | technical |
| 20. | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri | collision |
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HYBRID ERA - RED BULL RING 2014 Nico Rosberg - Mercedes AMG - 1:27:54.976 2015 Nico Rosberg - Mercedes AMG - 1:30:16.930 2016 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1:27:38.107 2017 Valtteri Bottas - Mercedes AMG - 1:21:48.523 2018 Sebastian Vettel - Ferrari - 1:29:33.283 2019 Valtteri Bottas - Mercedes AMG - 1:25:27.325 2020 Valtteri Bottas - Mercedes AMG - 1:30:55.739 2020 STYRIAN GRAND PRIX Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1:22:50.683 2021 STYRIAN GRAND PRIX Max Verstappen - Red Bull - 1:22:18.925 @MkFormula1 - REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA |
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| CLASSIFICATION AFTER 8/23 RACES | |||
| DRIVERS: | |||
| 1. | Max Verstappen | 156 | |
| 2. | Lewis Hamilton | 138 | |
| 3. | Sergio Pérez | 96 | |
| 4. | Lando Norris | 86 |
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| 5. | Valtteri Bottas | 74 | |
| 6. | Charles Leclerc | 58 | |
| 7. | Carlos Sainz Jr. | 50 | |
| 8. | Пјер Гасли | 37 | |
| 9. | Pierre Gasly | 34 | |
| 10. | Sebastian Vettel | 30 | |
| 11. | Fernando Alonso | 19 | |
| 12. | Lance Stroll | 14 | |
| 13. | Esteban Ocon | 12 | |
| 14. | Yuki Tsunoda | 9 | |
| 15. | Kimi Räikkönen | 1 | |
| 16. | Antonio Giovinazzi | 1 | |
| 17. | George Russell | 0 | |
| 18. | Mick Schumacher | 0 | |
| 19. | Nikita Mazepin | 0 | |
| 20. | Nicholas Latifi | 0 | |
| CONSTRUCTORS: | |||
| 1. | Red Bull | 252 | |
| 2. | Mercedes AMG | 212 | |
| 3. | McLaren | 120 | |
| 4. | Ferrari | 108 | |
| 5. | AlphaTauri | 46 | |
| 6. | Aston Martin | 44 | |
| 7. | Alpine | 31 | |
| 8. | Alfa Romeo | 2 | |
| 9. | Williams | 0 | |
| 10. | Haas | 0 | |
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