00:00And the sprint in Austria is go as they move away in formation.
00:05Good start for Max Verstappen, better start for Sergio Perez to the inside.
00:09And the Mexican driver takes the lead.
00:12He goes past his teammate, but he was deep into turn one.
00:14Verstappen has the traction.
00:16They go side by side at the track that bears their name.
00:19But it's Perez who's got it.
00:20He moves up from second to first position.
00:23Then it's Verstappen, then it's Lando Norris.
00:25It's getting tight between the Ferrari of Sainz.
00:28Oh, they're snaking on five.
00:30And there's a huge opportunity now for Hülkenberg.
00:32They're all over the road as they apply the anchors.
00:35Who got the power down?
00:36Max Verstappen takes the lead.
00:37Yeah, and that was a little feedback for Checo Perez,
00:41grinding him onto the grass as he came out of turn one.
00:44Up to third goes Hülkenberg.
00:45It's very tight in the background.
00:47Hülkenberg looking to the inside of Perez now.
00:49He seems to have a great feeling in these conditions, Julian.
00:52Where did Norris suddenly go?
00:53Because he was in that lead fight as the two Red Bulls went hunting into turn three.
00:57Side by side.
00:58Can he go around the outside?
00:59What a move from Hülkenberg to take the place away.
01:03Superb stuff as he moves up to second.
01:06Look at Max.
01:07Thumbly alongside him.
01:08And then he just gets a little bit of a weave out of Perez.
01:12And yeah, there'll be a conversation in the debrief afterwards on that one.
01:15But Max is so late on the brakes.
01:17Look at Lando here.
01:18He's in third.
01:19I wonder if he does a full 360 or something.
01:21Or does he just get anti-stool?
01:22He gets anti-stool and he was looking to fight with the two Red Bulls out front.
01:26Slows it down so much.
01:27Can't turn.
01:28Gets an anti-stool and doesn't leave the corner.
01:42Can't push me out of time.
01:44What the f***?
01:45Where Lando Norris has got good traction as he heads to turn number four.
01:49And Perez goes around the outside of Hülkenberg to finally make the move to take the place.
01:55And can Norris do the same thing?
01:57So Perez finally released.
01:59Great drive so far from Hülkenberg.
02:01We go on board with Lando Norris.
02:02Is he going around the outside of the Ferrari?
02:04No, because Charles Leclerc is going to the perimeter of the racetrack.
02:08We go on board with Carlos Sainz, who's trying to take his place in the top three.
02:13Puts the foot to the floor.
02:14And then it becomes a drag race.
02:16The Ferrari easing past the Haas.
02:19Hülkenberg performing wonders in the first 13 laps of the sprint.
02:22But now it's Sainz going through up to third place.
02:27Is this the moment for Charles Leclerc?
02:29He won the Austrian Grand Prix one year ago.
02:32He was chasing Max Verstappen in the sprint here last year.
02:35It's been sent to the outside later on the brakes.
02:37But he still doesn't have the momentum.
02:39Does he have the switchback?
02:40Ocon, he's tried to defend this one.
02:42But now Leclerc very close, throws an elbow, takes the place.
02:46And still Ocon dives to the inside.
02:49Brilliant racing on the edge from these two.
02:52Yeah, this is getting almost a street brawl, isn't it?
02:55You know, Leclerc often just steering to sort of lean on the side of Ocon.
02:58And he still came back.
03:00And that puts him under pressure once again from Norris.
03:04And a mistake there from the Ferrari runs wide.
03:06There's the opportunity for Norris.
03:08And Norris goes through across the line.
03:10That one's been coming for a while.
03:12Leclerc trying time, time and time again to fight past Ocon.
03:16He couldn't do it.
03:17And now it's Lando's turn because of that wide moment at the final corner of the racetrack.
03:21And George Russell gambles.
03:23George Russell goes to the slick tyre.
03:27That's really slow off the corner for the Haas of Hülkenberg.
03:30And Stroll now has a chance to try and seize it.
03:32The Canadian driver pulls out of the slipstream, takes the position.
03:36Hülkenberg, though, will throw it late on the brakes.
03:38Hülkenberg can't respond, though.
03:40And Lance Stroll gets himself into the top four in the sprint race.
03:45Top eight score points in the sprint race.
03:47Surely one of the most entertaining versions of this format we have seen,
03:51thanks to the weather, as Hülkenberg is lighting up the tyres there.
03:55Hamilton on the soft.
03:55Hülkenberg on the mediums.
03:57Big call for Haas.
03:58Big call for them.
03:59They're on for some points there.
04:00A decent haul.
04:01Running fifth position, fourth or fifth.
04:03And taking that pitch stop.
04:05Others are joining them.
04:06They're out of the points.
04:07They've got nothing to lose.
04:08For Haas, they had everything to lose from this.
04:10And they've gone with the gamble.
04:12Here we go with the two Mercedes drivers.
04:14So that's Lewis Hamilton being passed by George Russell,
04:17who got those tyres a lap earlier.
04:19And he now moves up to 14th position.
04:22But of course, if it does dry out, the intermediates are going to be degrading.
04:27You are going to be dealing with that.
04:28Stroll on the radio.
04:29People putting such a round.
04:31Now they're in the centre.
04:33So Hamilton has had those tyres a lap earlier.
04:36So they'll be up to temperature.
04:38Charles Leclerc coming under pressure.
04:40Hamilton trying to hog that dry line.
04:42They don't want to go too wide where it is.
04:44Wets from the central racing line.
04:46Traction race.
04:47Hamilton takes the place.
04:48Yeah, Leclerc a little bit wide on the mediums.
04:51He's not up to temperature yet.
04:53Everyone's raced for the slicks.
04:54But it's a tough one.
04:56He's got to make up so much pace still.
04:57Hülkenberg returning to the points playing positions.
05:02Here's George Russell.
05:03Dispatching Pierre Gasly on the intermediates on the last up.
05:07Easy move.
05:08Get towards the racing line and find the grip for turn three.
05:12Norris with Hülkenberg just behind.
05:14And that's an easy move.
05:15Simple pass for Hülkenberg.
05:17And Haas called the strategy right.
05:19They were going to fall into the clutches of others.
05:22They knew it.
05:23They went for the slick tyres.
05:24And Hülkenberg is up to seventh.
05:26Russell is chasing down Norris now for the last point.
05:29He was running fourth, remember?
05:30He was running fourth.
05:31And now he's seventh.
05:32So it's not necessarily the right call with eight seconds between Alonso and Ocon.
05:36But they're still going to get some points anyway.
05:38And here he goes towards sixth place.
05:40So this is now probably to where he would have ended up regardless for Hülkenberg.
05:44Up to sixth for Hülkenberg.
05:46And here's how George Russell took the final point.
05:49It's Lando Norris ahead on the intermediate tyre.
05:51So when it becomes a traction race, that's the story.
05:54And that's the gamble that paid off for Russell.
05:57Max Verstappen comes out of the final corner to see the chequered flag first.
06:01Verstappen takes the sprint on the intermediate tyre.
06:04So we go back now to the Aston Martins where Alonso is thinking about a move to the inside and
06:09backed out of it.
06:10He knows he's racing his teammate.
06:12Yeah, I know.
06:12He's still pushing.
06:13They want to turn nine.
06:14Gave Lance a bit of a chance there into seven.
06:17And they will be formation flying over the line.
06:20Alonso settles for his position in fifth.
06:23And George Russell did pass Lando Norris on that last lap.
06:27So the gamble from out of the points.
06:28We go across the line.
06:29Verstappen-Perez signs the top three.
06:31Stroll and then Alonso.
06:33And look at this coming across the line.
06:35It's side by side.
06:36Who gets it?
06:37That was super close.
06:38Opcon hangs on for seventh position.
06:41George Russell missing out by nine thousandths of a second.
06:45Well, thanks to your company for this one.
06:47It has been a really intriguing race across the 24 laps of the sprint.
06:52Max Verstappen's taking it again.
06:53But my word, did we have a lot of action.
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