00:0071 great laps I'm sure to come, it's the first ever Styrian Grand Prix, it's lights out, away we go,
00:06Hamilton and Verstappen get away well, Sainz is already closing up on Verstappen, Bottas on his own in 4th place,
00:12Hamilton leads into turn 1, Sainz goes through and off the track ahead of Verstappen, comes back on behind the
00:18Red Bull, Bottas in 4th, and now Alex Albon and Esteban Ocon are getting quite keen with each other as
00:23well, it's Hamilton who leads them now up towards turn 3, under braking, Verstappen on the inside, maintains 2nd place,
00:30they're all keeping out of trouble, it's really difficult to, it takes too long to change the rear wing, let's
00:36just have a look Martin now, on board with Charles Leclerc, dives down the inside as Vettel gets squeezed a
00:42bit, and in comes to grief with his team mate, stick up the inside of Vettel who was ultimately going
00:49to have to turn in with the car that was pushing him, so bad day for Ferrari, well they'll have
00:54a debrief at Ferrari, here's some of the damage on Charles Leclerc's car,
00:58with this condition, yeah, that is a shame, obviously it was a bonus to come back here with the same
01:03track, and also today is very similar in terms of conditions,
01:07but we will not get that answer, I'm afraid, the car felt a lot better,
01:12you know, on Friday and back to where it was last week,
01:14up to the point where
01:16it went in the wrong direction, but
01:18yeah, it's a shame because also for the update we would really like to
01:23get the race on the line and
01:24some laps to see where the car is, but
01:27unfortunately we will not get that answer.
01:31Yeah, apologies from me again for getting those
01:33two Ferraris the wrong way round, they'll teach
01:35me to be looking at something else, but
01:37yeah, it was
01:38it was clearly, I completely agree, it was a lunge into what was already a very busy situation.
01:47And that was a lunge down the inside from Sergio, the top three, and I think it's enabling Hamilton
01:52to maybe give those curbs a bit of a wide burst.
01:56Lance Stroll trying to go round the outside of Pierre Gasly in the Alfa Tauri,
02:00Alfa Tauri I should say, meanwhile Daniel Ricciardo is right on the rear wing now
02:05of his teammate Esteban Ocon as well, Ocon's dropped behind Carlos Sainz, hasn't got DRS,
02:11Rick in the position to overtake Gasly, but down towards turn four, here goes the Aussie, Daniel Ricciardo,
02:18round the outside of Esteban Ocon, who's going to fight this one, and the two Renaults going wheel to wheel,
02:23and Ricciardo has to yield and lose yet more time, and behind them, Lance Stroll has got past Pierre Gasly,
02:31so he got the move done, I think went round the outside there,
02:34Daniel Ricciardo tried, Ocon was having none of it.
02:38Now you've got to play the team game, and Renault need to be managing this one, look,
02:42so they're having to drive defensively against each other, and costing time to the pair of them,
02:49and it looks with DRS now as if Ricciardo's got the job done, and Ocon's having none of it uphide,
02:56and Ricciardo taking a big swerve left there to stop the contact, that, it feels right at the time,
03:05fighting your team mate like that, but, yeah, what it's doing is allowing Racing Point to come at them.
03:12Yeah, and I wonder how crucial that will be towards the closing stages of this race.
03:18Out in front, Lewis Hamilton is 3.8 seconds clear of Max Verstappen now,
03:23Bottas is close to three seconds behind the Red Bull man in second place,
03:29and, well, Mercedes have got a strategy, a luxury of riches at the moment in their battle with the Red
03:36Bull,
03:36because Alex does, Verstappen is the fly in their ointment.
03:39I think Ricciardo got a much better exit, yeah, he did, out of turn three,
03:42here he goes on Esteban Ocon can get the job done before turn four,
03:46and this time he does, that's about three laps too late,
03:49I think for the Aussie, he felt he was being held up a bit by his team mate at Renault,
03:53but now he's got the chance to prove.
03:55It's 20 laps into a run on soft tyres, let's see if Ocon yielded a little bit here.
04:05I think that, well, the move was done before the braking zone, wasn't it?
04:08Yeah, it was far enough ahead, wasn't it?
04:10Left a bit of a gap on the inside.
04:12The part to strip them down begins an awful lot earlier than they really wanted.
04:20I'll tell you who got really caught up there, I think Kimi Räikkönen had to,
04:23jam the brakes on the air, as we're right on board with him now.
04:27So, so, no fault of his own, Räikkönen lost a few places,
04:31he's recovered now to 12th overall,
04:34and Esteban Ocon, by the way, has been retired
04:37because of a head of Danny Kviatt and Antonio Giovinazzi,
04:41and this is Stroll coming out of the pits,
04:43off to the track, and he's gone wheel to wheel with Romain Grosjean,
04:47and Grosjean hasn't pitted yet,
04:50doesn't really want to be behind the racing point,
04:52so is he going to mount an attack?
04:54No, he's not, and he almost went into the McLaren,
04:57who was trying to lunge up down the inside there.
05:01It's a second stop for Pierre Gasly,
05:03the hard tyre not working for him at all.
05:05So that strategy has really not paid off today, has it?
05:10Crossed him dear, very.
05:11Crossed him dear.
05:12Yeah, the runner looks slower than a slow thing down the straights.
05:16Kevin Magnussen, Kimi Räikkönen, turn nine.
05:21It's hard to get one car through there, well.
05:24That's where Kimi lost his front wheel, of course, last Sunday.
05:30Yeah, good body well.
05:31The best paid link in the chain, and the runner gets the most attention,
05:35but it is a chain at the end of the day,
05:37and often the team will do that,
05:39and if it doesn't yield any further positions,
05:41they might even consider swapping them back again,
05:43but I don't think that's going to happen on this occasion,
05:46but let's see.
05:47That's Bottas now within 2.8 seconds.
05:50Can he do about that?
05:52Drivability, that's down to the engine, isn't it?
05:54Yes, I think that's what he's saying,
05:56but also he's obviously getting a lot of wheel spin there,
05:58and he's not getting down the back straight,
06:00which means he'll be a sitting duck.
06:02If that's the case,
06:03when Bottas really gets behind him and gets DRS,
06:06which he didn't look like he had there, did he?
06:08Because he's one point, well, he's less than a second behind now,
06:11but I think in the DRS zone, in the...
06:13Gaining, he has DRS advantage.
06:15He's got a car that isn't damaged.
06:17He's going wheel to wheel with Max Verstappen,
06:19who's making him go all the way around the outside at Turn 3.
06:22Bottas don't get better traction out of that corner,
06:25and he's got DRS once again,
06:27and it's this where Bottas makes his move,
06:30and it's a Mercedes 1-2 then at the moment.
06:33Hamilton leads, Valtteri Bottas the second,
06:35but Verstappen going back,
06:37going the long way around the outside,
06:38and they're still going wheel to wheel.
06:41Bottas thought he got the move done.
06:43Verstappen's having none of it.
06:44Bottas might have to yield here, and he does.
06:47Mercedes 1-2 to Mercedes 1-3 now.
06:50And because there's a short lap here,
06:53battle resumes quite quickly.
06:55Bottas is going to have to go around the outside again.
06:58Verstappen making no secret of where he wants to send.
07:01Valtteri Bottas as they head towards Turn 4.
07:04Can the fin get it done this time around?
07:07Martin Brundle is en route to the podium now
07:09to interview the drivers,
07:11and by the time he gets there,
07:13well, Bottas' career victory from pole.
07:15A record that he holds himself.
07:18McLaren pit stop activity, Ted Kravitz.
07:20Yes, Carlos Sainz, and it's a free stop
07:23because he's got the gap on Danny Kiviak,
07:24so he's going to put a brand new set of soft tyres on.
07:27He does, and he's going to try for an extra point
07:29for a fastest lap.
07:31Nice idea.
07:32Yeah, try and take it away from Lewis Hamilton
07:33who's got it at the moment,
07:34as we can see Bottas getting past Verstappen.
07:37Paul de Rester's now alongside me.
07:38They are aware, and the team are obviously
07:40giving him that information.
07:42Meanwhile, Sergio Perez is doing his damnedest
07:44to get past Alex Albon.
07:46The back markers came to Albon's aid
07:48right at the time when Perez first got to him.
07:51Has Lance Stroll managed to get past Daniel Riccardo?
07:54Oh, he very didn't.
07:55He ran into the backers.
07:56Both locked up going into Turn 3.
07:58Yeah, he's just been caught off guard there, hasn't he?
08:01He's locked the inside front, then the outside,
08:02and that was probably his chance he was going to go by.
08:05He's going to be going for a fastest lap on this lap,
08:07and now he's cleared the back markers.
08:09He's got a nice clear track in which to do all of this moment,
08:12because which way do you go, forward or backwards?
08:15And now Sergio Perez having a go,
08:16and Alex Albon, oh my Lord,
08:18that very nearly ended in total disaster for Alex Albon.
08:23That has picked up a damaged front wing.
08:25We're on the final lap.
08:26Lance Stroll goes down the inside on Daniel Riccardo.
08:29This time he gets the move done,
08:31but watch out, there's Lando Norris right there.
08:33Which way is Norris going to go?
08:34Because he's in a position to take Daniel Riccardo and Lance Stroll.
08:38Gets past Riccardo, might go the long way round with Lance Stroll.
08:41He's going to go the long way round with Lance Stroll.
08:43Wheel to wheel with Lance Stroll.
08:45He's almost onto the gravel,
08:46and somehow Stroll manages to hang on to sixth place.
08:49Yeah, Riccardo left the door open there.
08:51Not like Daniel Riccardo to do that,
08:52and Stroll sticking...
09:01He's got good traction here, Crofty as well.
09:05He's going to get the benefit of DRS.
09:07Might yet take fifth, you know,
09:09as he goes wide, Perez.
09:10Norris has passed the racing point.
09:12He's done two in the same lap.
09:14Perez ahead of Stroll, ahead of Riccardo behind.
09:18Oh, it's a tight finish.
09:19It's a photo finish.
09:20Last lap here at the Red Bull Ring.
09:23You never want to miss it.
09:24McLaren tactically got that right,
09:26giving Norris a place by Sainz,
09:28and he's put a charge on.
09:29And then obviously picking up that move,
09:31and textbook, absolute textbook.
09:33He had the experience from last week,
09:35and to keep fighting all the way to the end,
09:37I feel sorry for Perez,
09:38because he put in such a good race from the back.
09:40He's obviously hit Albon, damaged his front wing.
09:43But Norris again, you have to say,
09:45that's a standout performance.
09:46He's finished fifth.
09:47He started the last lap in seventh place.
09:50Lando Norris, what a grandstand finish
09:53for the young man there.
09:55And do you know what?
09:56At this stage, it's a good job the line comes up quick
09:59for Sergio Perez,
10:00because he was in danger of losing two more places.
10:02Three cars in one.
10:25Backside engineer representing Mercedes on the podium today,
10:31as they pick up out a very powerful message,
10:34driver and team.
10:36Drivers and team on and off the track at the moment.
10:40Perhaps we've got us just didn't quite have the pace today,
10:43but do you know what?
10:44Started fourth, finished second.
10:46Most weeks, that's not a bad return.
10:47No, I think when you qualify fourth after that,
10:52and then you fight your way through,
10:53you pass Max Verstappen at the end of the Grand Prix,
10:54not the easiest guy to overtake.
10:57It'll be pretty points clear for the Drivers' Championship,
11:00and we'll head to Budapest for more in seven days' time.
11:12Well, the situation has resumed over at Miss...
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