00:00The green flag at the back tells us we go racing in five lights time
00:06and the Austrian Grand Prix is underway.
00:10Perfect reaction time for Max Verstappen, he's got what he needed off the line.
00:13George Russell will put pressure on Lando Norris, but the top three were as they were.
00:17That was brave around the outside for Lewis Hamilton,
00:19but did he overtake off the road when he was battling Carlos Sainz?
00:23They'll work it out later.
00:24For second place we go with George Russell momentarily ahead,
00:27but Lando Norris with the inside line. Can Hamilton get the job done against Carlos Sainz?
00:32He can, but there'll be a question of whether he did so off the road.
00:35Max Verstappen checking out out front as Oscar Piastri goes wheel to wheel with Sergio Perez.
00:40It's Verstappen, then Norris, Russell, Hamilton up a place, Sainz down one
00:44and Piastri climbed up to sixth position.
00:47Perfect start once again for Verstappen.
00:49Piastri is ushered wide to the gravel, he's going to lose a place to Leclerc as well
00:52and Perez has made two places in that right down in sixth place.
00:57Nose change for Charles Leclerc.
01:01Let's see on board with Leclerc now.
01:02That's his teammate ahead, Hamilton on the side.
01:04Leclerc gets the whack with Piastri then.
01:08At the moment Lewis Hamilton trying to make the pass.
01:10He's been so racy at the start of this one.
01:12Pass Carlos Sainz on the first lap.
01:14On the third lap he's going to be past his teammate.
01:16And Lewis Hamilton is up to third position.
01:19His best start to a Grand Prix so far this year in terms of places gained.
01:24He's on the attack, but George Russell wants the place back.
01:27Will they play fairly?
01:28Wasn't even a contest.
01:29Russell retakes P3.
01:32Okay, so we're under investigation for turn one.
01:35So we need to let Sainz past.
01:36So there was the instruction on the radio from Pete Bonnington,
01:39the race engineer for Lewis Hamilton.
01:41He actually is still benefiting from that move at the start
01:44because Sainz has not got the DRS from Russell that he otherwise might have had.
01:48So now he's vulnerable and here comes Hamilton on the outside.
01:50Sainz hugged that inside line, desperate to hang on to it.
01:53And he keeps track position for the moment.
01:55Yeah, both of them will be losing lap time.
01:58You see the battle, Piastri and Perez.
02:00And well, we know Piastri is not happy looking to go around the outside.
02:04Can he do it?
02:05Yes, he takes the place.
02:07And Piastri forced to go the long way round.
02:10And he gets the position back.
02:14Let's see what happened to Joe.
02:15Through goes Daniel Ricciardo.
02:19Oh, and a hit.
02:20What the f*** is he doing there?
02:23So we believe it was Alonso.
02:25It was Alonso.
02:26Alonso into the side to Joe.
02:28Joe not happy at all as he rejoins.
02:31Alonso has been given a 10 second time penalty for causing a collision with Joe Guanyu.
02:38These two Alpines, they're not the best of mates, are they?
02:40So Gasly has a look to the inside.
02:42And Ocon just sort of wafts towards the inside.
02:45Says, don't try that one.
02:47It's so easy to have a lock up there and clatter into the car ahead.
02:50But Gasly managed to measure that one quite well.
02:58Copy that.
03:02Ocon finally does pass, Fernando Alonso.
03:04Yeah, did so at turn number one.
03:06Alonso trying to come back.
03:07Huge amount of speed.
03:08One Alpine has gone through.
03:09So is the second one.
03:11Alonso has run out of tires as we run wheel to wheel.
03:14And again, the Alpines are providing us with on-track action.
03:18The team won't like it, but it's brilliant entertainment for us.
03:24Ocon on the left-hand side on board with Pierre Gasly.
03:27One driver on the left leaving the team.
03:29And that was a chop across the bowels there of Gasly,
03:32who's now trying to go to the outside line.
03:35He's trying to keep two wheels on the racetrack.
03:37He's done that.
03:38The outside line will become the inside line.
03:41And Ocon can't stay in the battle.
03:43Gasly gets by and takes eighth place.
03:47That is Oscar Piastri getting to the apex first.
03:51And Piastri worked hard for that move.
03:53Coming through and taking what is currently third place away
03:56from Lewis Hamilton.
03:58Just up and sweeps in.
04:00Norris sweeps in just behind.
04:02Lando's got a set of mediums.
04:03Hold on, was that slow?
04:04Was that slow?
04:05Sorry, Charlie and Kelly and Cross.
04:06Was that a slow stop?
04:07They waited for the release.
04:08Took no chances.
04:09So that will definitely have played to the advantage of McLaren.
04:13Yeah, left rear.
04:14Very slow coming off.
04:15And then, because it was slow,
04:17he then had to wait for Norris as well,
04:19once the left rear was attached.
04:22They've had the helping hand of a slow stop.
04:24He's gone wide.
04:25Oh, he did lock up.
04:26Did he make the corner?
04:27Oh my word.
04:28Pushing on the outlap there.
04:30The gap was seven seconds.
04:32It's now 1.7 seconds.
04:36This is where he got past in the sprint yesterday.
04:39Lando Norris, is he brave immediately again?
04:42This time Verstappen covers it off.
04:44This Grand Prix has come alive.
04:49Is it late again?
04:50Is it great again?
04:52For Lando Norris, who tries to slow it down,
04:54but he overtook him off the road.
04:56What a late lunge it was,
04:58but he'll have to give that place back and he knows it.
05:00He can't keep moving after I've moved.
05:03It's just dangerous.
05:04Oh, we've got to have a big shot.
05:06He forced me to go wide and look off.
05:10Battles for the lead decided late on here
05:12between Verstappen and Charles Leclerc.
05:15It went to the last lap in 2016 between the Mercedes pair.
05:18And now on lap 63, Lando Norris slows it down.
05:22That one will count if he can stand on the power.
05:25Max Verstappen was off the road to maintain the place.
05:28There'll be all sorts of investigations there.
05:31What a battle between the top two in Formula One.
05:35Yeah, he has to give it to Vissi Schoenbach.
05:37I was ahead at the apex.
05:39Yeah, and he went off track.
05:42Game on once again.
05:44This time it's the outside line.
05:46Oh, they make contact.
05:47He's got a puncher.
05:48He's damaged his front wing.
05:49The leading contenders for the world championship
05:52come together at turn three.
05:54The crowd can't believe it.
05:56And George Russell will be looking at the gap.
05:59He's the man in third after Verstappen.
06:01And Norris come together chasing the lead.
06:04Incredible.
06:05Norris has got a puncture as well, has he?
06:07Or is he just going around Verstappen who's crawling?
06:10Verstappen's going to tumble all the way down.
06:11I think Norris is struggling.
06:13Norris gets to the lead of the race.
06:15But what condition is the car in?
06:17George, you can win this.
06:18You can win this, George.
06:20Just have a drive.
06:21And Norris is struggling.
06:23George Russell is catching the pair of them.
06:26The man who's got one victory in Formula One might be about to take the lead.
06:31Nice.
06:32Oh, my God.
06:33There it is.
06:34There's the moment.
06:35George Russell into the lead of the Austrian Grand Prix.
06:39Can you believe what we're seeing?
06:42Verstappen and Norris fighting lap after lap.
06:46And it's the door swung wide open for George Russell, who leads Carlos Sainz by 2.2 seconds.
06:57On board with Oscar Piastri, going alongside, trying to take second place.
07:02This is absolutely unbelievable stuff.
07:07Piastri, now a contender to win this Grand Prix.
07:10He's up to second.
07:12What a move.
07:13And for just the second time in Formula One, the British driver will see the flag first.
07:19And George Russell wins an amazing Austrian Grand Prix.
07:23He beats Oscar Piastri home by 1.9 seconds.
07:29Carlos Sainz is back on the podium for the first time since Monaco.
07:32So, another Grand Prix to remember round here.
07:37Something about this place into turn number three just provides endless action, endless drama,
07:44and the beneficiary, the winner, George Russell.
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