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4/7/2021
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00:00And it's lights out and away we go, it's Verstappen ahead of Norris, Perez ahead of Hamilton and Perez closes
00:06off the thread of Hamilton and into Turn 1 we go.
00:09Lock up behind but Max Verstappen's through safely as is Norris, Perez and then comes Bottas and Hamilton and they're
00:15making up places already.
00:16Hamilton ahead then of Bottas, Gasly has just dropped back a little bit as well as towards Turn 3 we
00:22go now.
00:23Max Verstappen in the lead from Norris and then Perez, then comes Hamilton, Bottas on the inside of Gasly,
00:27Sonoda on the inside of Stroll and they look to go through safely the Top 10.
00:32Yeah and Hamilton's putting pressure on Perez heading down to Turn 4, is he going to get it done?
00:35He's going to go the long way round, who's going to get the lack of downforce as they get in
00:39there?
00:39And Perez making his car as wide as possible, Bottas just staying in front of Gasly as well.
00:43And we've got a safety car as everything now slows down.
00:48He gets to Turn 3, he's the filling in a sandwich and Giovinazzi clips his front right.
00:55And now we can get away, they're all trying to hunt for that slipstream aren't they?
00:59And Perez is going to try and go round the outside of Lando Norris.
01:02Oh and they almost touch as Perez has to go wide and now he's got the upper hand as they
01:07make their way towards Turn 3.
01:09Verstappen leads, Norris then in second place, Perez is trying to fight back, Hamilton and Bottas getting involved as well.
01:15On the inside, there goes Lando Norris, Bottas has to pull out before he hits Sergio Perez and the two
01:20Mercedes.
01:21Well, swapping places there, Bottas got himself into a bit of a pickle but he has come out on top
01:27and ahead of his teammate.
01:28Sergio Perez now, Turn 4, trying to go the long way round the outside.
01:32His jaw continues with Lando Norris as he now goes on to the gravel and he loses 6 or 7
01:38places as a result of that.
01:40That was not what Perez needed, he's down to 10th.
01:43Where was Perez, how much space did he have, was he running onto the green?
01:47He's in there isn't he, he's definitely in there but I want to see hard racing.
01:515 second penalty for Lando Norris for forcing another driver off the track.
01:57Lando Norris in second place at the moment, under pressure from Lewis Hamilton going into Turn 3.
02:02He won't have been told about that penalty yet but he could get the double whammy here on lap 20
02:07of being overtaken by Hamilton and getting a penalty as well.
02:10Because Hamilton is going to dive down the inside at Turn 4 and maybe Norris' tyres are going off a
02:16little bit.
02:16Because Hamilton had that move done an awful lot earlier than he might have been expecting.
02:23So box, box, box, follow Norris, if you box you're boxing otherwise stay out.
02:28But of course they have to wait 5 seconds because of that penalty that he picked up for forcing Sergio
02:32Perez off the road.
02:33And because of that penalty, well Valtteri Bottas has managed to jump Lando Norris in the pit stops.
02:40We're on board now with the Mexican driver, is he going to try and make a move round the outside
02:45at Turn 4?
02:46Here he comes, you can see the scarlet Ferrari and they touch and this time it's Leclerc that goes off
02:51into the gravel.
02:52Banging wheels, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc and Leclerc has lost out big time.
02:57Sergio Perez has a 5 second time penalty for forcing another driver off the track.
03:05There goes Leclerc out of Turn 3, got a much better exit than Sergio Perez and off to Perez, picked
03:11up a 5 second penalty.
03:13At this corner a few laps ago Leclerc is going to be going for it again.
03:17And Leclerc is going round the outside again but this time he's not quite close enough, tries to get Perez
03:21on the exit.
03:21This is going to carry on to Turn 5 and 6 as well because there's nothing to separate these two
03:26cars round the outside.
03:28Go Charles Leclerc! You don't overtake there round the outside and that's why Leclerc goes off into the gravel.
03:34And for the second time trying to overtake Sergio Perez loses ground by heading into the gravel.
03:41Come on this guy's a ****! Get all the ****!
03:45Get all the ****!
03:46Perez has got a five second penalty for forcing Charles Leclerc off the track!
03:54So Lewis has damage. Do not race it for now. We will review.
03:59That's where Hamilton might have got his damage. You don't want to go across those sausage curbs too often.
04:04and here goes Valtteri Bottas on the inside of Lewis Hamilton moves up into second place
04:11Hamilton doesn't want to lose too much pace here so he doesn't want to slow down because he's
04:16we can see Lando Norris right behind him Bottas then is free to go off and race into the distance
04:22in second place it's DRS for the Mercedes and for the McLaren the McLaren's getting closer here
04:29and with a decent exit and a decent run towards Hamilton turn four could get very interesting
04:35indeed Verstappen leads Bottas is second this is the battle for the final podium place and Lando Norris
04:41is going to try around the outside he's almost off the track as he does it and Lewis Hamilton gets
04:46a
04:46decent enough exit to keep the McLaren at bay but here comes Norris again this time it's the inside
04:52at turn six Lando Norris has got Lewis Hamilton and he moves back up into the podium places
05:00Alonso really good traction out of turn three he's a lot closer to George Russell to make the move
05:05towards turn four Russell will try and defend but I think he knows that it is a hopeless task
05:10because Fernando Alonso could get the move done way before they got to the corner Carlos Sainz trying
05:16to get sixth place Sainz has been making his way through the field oh he's got the job done on
05:21Daniel Ricciardo Carlos Sainz puts his Ferrari up into sixth place and that will be very good news
05:28indeed for Ferrari in their fight with McLaren in the constructors championship the Dutch fans have
05:34come to Austria to see him win again they came they saw he conquered Max Verstappen wins the Austrian
05:42Grand Prix and once again he's crushed the opposition at the Red Bull ring it's going to be Valtteri Bottas
05:50for Mercedes coming home in second place and a timely second place finish for a man who likes a podium
05:56here in Austria Lando Norris started on the front row picks up another podium that's podium number four
06:04for Lando Norris he comes home third ahead of Lewis Hamilton there was a bit of an incident in the
06:10last lap I think Vettel getting involved here as well in Raikkonen and Russell obviously good friends
06:16former teammates and they might want to have a little chat about that at the end of this race
06:20I wonder if Raikkonen's just been caught off guard I don't think Vettel did anything wrong there to be
06:24honest no Max Verstappen and Red Bull have taken it to Mercedes and they come away from this triple
06:32header with now an extended lead in both championships how crucial will these last three races be by the
06:40time we get to Abu Dhabi at the moment Mercedes don't have the answer to Red Bull and to Max

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