00:00It's the Austrian Grand Prix here at the Red Bull Ring, and it's lights out, and away we go, it's Verstappen ahead of Norris, Perez ahead of Hamilton, and Perez closes off the threat of Hamilton, and into Turn 3 we go, lock up behind, but Max Verstappen through safety as is Morris, Perez, and then comes Bottas, and Hamilton are making up places already, Hamilton ahead of Bottas, Gasly has just dropped back a little bit as well, and towards Turn 3 we go now, Max Verstappen in the lead from Norris, and then Perez, then comes Hamilton, Bottas on the inside again,
00:30Gasly, Sedona on the, he will not want to be coming back to Austria in a hurry, it has been a pretty much horrible time for Eseman Occon here, in the last 7 days, started 17th for the second weekend running, he gets to Turn 3, he's the filling in a sandwich between Mitch Schumacher on the outside, and Antonio Giovinazzi on the inside, and Giovinazzi clips his front right.
00:54He didn't know where to go with it, you could see him, he was, he was going outside, he was going inside, and the hat's just going up the inside, and you can see how much stronger the rear of the car is versus the front.
01:03Sergio Perez now, Turn 4, trying to go the wrong way, round the outside, his jewel continues with Ando Norris, and he now goes on to the grabber, and he loses 6 or 7 places, as a result of that, that was not what Perez needed, he's down to 10.
01:19Ando Norris in Turn 4, Norris is not a man to back out, he'll get his elbows out on every count.
01:24Did he push me off?
01:26Did he push him off? Was Perez ever ahead? Was it his corner?
01:30There was slight contact, did he deserve a bit more space?
01:33I haven't seen it from the front, but...
01:35He's with us this afternoon, Christian, at the Warrior bus, dream start for the other car, a bit of a nightmare.
01:42Yeah, but Norris was all over the exit cabin, the exit of Turn 1, and that's going to damage or floor, damage or barge more, so he doesn't want to be doing that too often.
01:50Didn't he ask the team yesterday, just to check the car a little bit, he said he was taking a few risks in qualifying, he was using the curbs a lot there, well, he could maybe get away with that over one flying lap, but not over 71 laps here in the Red Bull Ring.
02:05And just as we mentioned, curbs, there are some curves to show you, you don't want to be going that way, Lando, once or twice too often in this race.
02:13You can rest the car up there, Perez, Carlos Sainz, George Russell up to the points in Kimi Raikkonen, and there is a five-second time penalty for Yuki Sonoda for crossing the line at the pit's entry.
02:24Sonoda is down at the moment in 15th, he's already made his pit stop, so he's got the penalty as well.
02:33I don't know, I think that's harsh.
02:34I mean, this is the shot I wanted to see, to be honest, where his pair is, how much space did he have, was he running onto the green?
02:43He's in there, isn't he? He's definitely in there, but I want to see how...
02:47I can't agree more with that, to be honest.
02:51There's Pierre Gasly, Nick Russell Teefeet, making his way up to the 12th, Spartan Teefeet, he hasn't stopped yet, and Pierre Gasly has.
02:58He's had a very dinner with that line at the moment, so I can probably understand it.
03:02Yeah, the team don't seem too fussed about it, obviously it's an ideal situation for them, because they've got Daniel, and I'm sure Lando's kind of shocked the view of Daniel that's next up the road,
03:10that far away, but at the same point, up the position, and this is Tsunoda.
03:15Yeah, I mean, that's clear, isn't it? You've got to be within those white lines as you come into the pit box.
03:21I thought he'd maybe cross it as he went through to a nine, but it was on the entry, you can see that, so another costly mistake for the rookie.
03:28It's the sort of thing you can do as a rookie, although, to be fair, the first time that he's actually raced in a Formula One racetrack that he's raced in Formula One before,
03:37so he should actually have to know and understand what he's got to do this week.
03:41That's what's feeling the order for it, that move, Stan.
03:43Now, here comes George Russell on Lance Stroll, these two had a decent battling qualifying yesterday,
03:50that's a decent battle out on the track as well, as Russell gets past Stroll, and goes up into 13th,
03:55he out-qualified the Aston Martin into the top 10 for the first time as a Williams driver in qualifying,
04:02and, well, the last Williams driver to get into the top 10 in qualifying on pace was Lance Stroll himself.
04:07Their ones are in 2018.
04:08Very good move, Stroll just never defended it, did he?
04:11Didn't look like he wanted to race it, I mean, if you're Aston Martin today, the last thing they thought coming into this year,
04:17they're racing a Williams itself.
04:18Five and six as well, because there's nothing to separate these two cars,
04:21round the outside goes Charles Leclerc, you don't have to take that around the outside,
04:25and that's why Leclerc goes off into the gravel,
04:28and for the second time, trying to overtake Sergio Perez loses ground by heading into the gravel.
04:35Perez has not given it easy, is he? Absolutely not.
04:37The compliance that the Ferrari's got in Turn 3 is incredible, he's able to go on the inside,
04:42but I get the feeling Perez is going to pick up probably another penalty for forcing the car off the track.
04:47Well, I'll see that one again, because that looked very hard racing,
04:54but at first glance, fair racing as well.
04:58He's got space, but Perez is moving towards the end,
05:01with Serena having pitted a lot earlier,
05:03probably become a two-stop strategy,
05:05but Sainz won't want to get stuck behind the Alpha Tauri,
05:08and he has now got to overtake the Alpha Tauri to move back up the order again.
05:13Black and white flag for Nikita Mazeport,
05:15fixing the track limits.
05:17Yeah, just watch out for Sainz and Pronti,
05:18he is going to be proper quick on that set of tyres.
05:21He's done a very good job again, he's kept his nose clean,
05:23and I would expect him to be racing up to the back of the Ricciardo.
05:26We don't know how much downforce he's losing with that damage,
05:29I'm sure they know it in the Mercedes on the telemetry,
05:32but it's certainly affecting others.
05:34Here we go again.
05:36Carlos Sainz is going to suffer here,
05:38and he's got Verstappen coming up behind him,
05:40and we know that Smeke got stuck behind it,
05:41Ableton making an impact,
05:43but the only way I will stay, Verstappen's pushing on,
05:45he's doing very, very good laps.
05:47He also knows he's on much fresher tyres than Daniel Ricciardo,
05:51and he knows that Ricciardo can put up a decent defence when he wants to.
05:55Where does he pick his move to try and get past the Australian?
05:59Just a few car lengths separating them as they bow down the...
06:03Safety car restart, Sainz has been making his way through the field,
06:06Oh, he's got the job done on Daniel Ricciardo,
06:09Carlos Sainz puts his Ferrari up into sixth place,
06:13and that will be very good news indeed,
06:15but for anyone from pole,
06:17the Dutch fans have come to Austria to see him win again.
06:20They came, they saw, he conquered,
06:24Max Verstappen wins the Austrian Grand Prix,
06:27and once again, he's crushed the opposition at the Red Bull Ring.
06:32What a victory for Max Verstappen,
06:35it's going to be Valtteri Bottas for Mercedes,
06:37coming home in second place,
06:39and a timely second place finish for a man who likes a podium,
06:42here in Austria, Bottas comes second,
06:45Vlando Norris started on the phone row,
06:48every expanding collection.
06:51It's our first triple header of the season,
06:54it is very much trebles all round,
06:56for that man and his team.
06:58Max Verstappen and Red Bull have taken it to Mercedes,
07:02and they come away from this triple header,
07:05with now an extended lead in both championships.
07:10How crucial will his last three races be
07:12by the time he gets to Abu Dhabi,
07:14and at the moment,
07:15Mercedes don't have the answer to Red Bull and to Max.
07:23Pure Dutch.
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