00:00Looking for the five lights here in the Styrian Hills, it's lights out and away we go, Russell does get
00:06away well, Charles Leclerc is following him and has to switch now to try and go round the outside, Lewis
00:10Hamilton holding off Kimi Antonelli as Russell leads into the first corner and they all make their way through pretty
00:16safely except Kimi Antonelli who goes onto the runoff area, rejoins though, still ahead of Max Verstappen in fourth, Lando
00:22Norris pushing Max Verstappen, might try down the inside into turn three, under late break, he can't quite do it,
00:28Leclerc runs wide,
00:29Hamilton trying to get on terms with him, Antonelli off the track once again, that's twice in three corners, Kimi
00:36Antonelli has left the track, here comes Liam Lawson with Lando Norris down towards turn four as Russell leads and
00:42the two Ferraris side by side as Lewis Hamilton forces his way past Charles Leclerc and into second place, George
00:48Russell and Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc, Antonelli down the inside on Charles Leclerc, there's that Mercedes speed but it's too
00:55fast as he goes off the track for a third time
00:58and we've only just started lap two, he'll have to give that place back because he's clearly gone off track
01:02and he does at the next opportunity down into turn three but is this going to be an opportunity for
01:08Max Verstappen having a look around the outside, Antonelli now switches back to the inside on the run down the
01:13street, Verstappen's in the toe, Del Crofty, behind Charles Leclerc.
01:16Yeah, and here he goes past Kimi Antonelli, he's going to have to go the long way around the outside,
01:22late-breaking Charles Leclerc comes across Max Verstappen, tries to preserve his place, Max Verstappen saw that coming, great exit
01:29out of turn four and the Red Bull gets ahead of the Ferrari, Antonelli's struggling once more, Oscar Piastri on
01:36the inside, Lando Norris tries to go to the inside, Antonelli holds off both the papaya cars.
01:41I think Leclerc used a lot of his energy on the run to turn four, then had to clip and
01:46save and harvest, look at the light flashing there, look at him, he's saving energy, harvesting energy, he's run out
01:51of juice and that has allowed Antonelli to get the run through into turn nine and get ahead.
01:56So Verstappen could trigger this early, he is very close to Lewis, every extra second we can get.
02:06He is struggling with these tyres.
02:08Oh, sorry, Verney, there goes Max Verstappen down the inside on Lewis Hamilton and that was absolutely inch-perfect from
02:14Verstappen to take second place from Hamilton, great scrap between these two, but Hamilton's going to come back at Verstappen
02:21now and he's inched away, but the inside lines, the Rebel who locks up to avoid it.
02:26Many problems going into the Ferrari and under-locking up still manages to stay in contention and Verstappen still fighting
02:33it with that extra speed down the straight to try and go round the outside.
02:38This is absolutely epic as Verstappen goes onto the gravel and he is still there, Hamilton trying to shake him
02:46off and eventually he does.
02:47Right now, here comes Verstappen again.
02:52We take a look at the race starts up from the helicopter, looking at the launch there, Crofty, we have
02:58seen the other teams have caught up generally with Ferrari, isn't it?
03:02We're not seeing, I do think Leclerc got a better launch, but Russell got a good enough one to cover
03:08him off there, Antonelli off the track.
03:10Let's look at the run down to Turn 3 because Antonelli went off again at Turn 3, didn't he?
03:15Yeah, he did, so watch for the Mercedes there with Lewis Hamilton on the inside, Leclerc's challenging Russell and Antonelli
03:21just gets a bit compromised behind Charles Leclerc
03:23and thinks, right, you know, I'm going to bail out here rather than go into the back of him.
03:27I think it's all staffers overheated, the one-stop made me possible.
03:29There you go.
03:31Lando, we're going to stay out, he'll get clean air, we're going to extend.
03:35I've got no more pace, so this is it.
03:39And he is right there with Lewis Hamilton.
03:42So, will he make the late lunge at Turn 3?
03:45Oh, yes, he will.
03:46Max Verstappen down the inside, Hamilton saw it coming, left to Gant, thought, well, try the switchback.
03:52That is not going to work on that occasion, but now in the slipstream, can he get Max Verstappen into
03:58Turn 4?
03:58Use a bit of boost, extra energy, is it possible?
04:02Yes, it is.
04:03Hamilton is back ahead of Max Verstappen and now it is going to carry on as we saw previously,
04:09as they drop downhill towards the inside of Turn 6 where Max Verstappen,
04:14oh, under braking, has to move across Lewis Hamilton.
04:18That forced Hamilton just to jam on the brakes a little bit.
04:21Verstappen is through and ahead of Lewis Hamilton.
04:24I think that's allowed Max to just break away.
04:27Aggressive stuff, but effective.
04:29This is after Lando Norris' pit stop.
04:31That's not what you want to be doing when you've got a fresh set of C3 tyres off.
04:36And now that seems slower, we are thinking also about Plumby.
04:41It doesn't feel that way to me, mate.
04:44Hamilton not enjoying himself and as the car stops on the track and it is Carlos Sainz in the Williams
04:49and that is going to give Kimi Antonelli a chance now to come into the pits.
04:53Under yellow flags, not the virtual safety car, but Antonelli who is behind his teammate George Russell now making that
05:01pit stop.
05:02The two Ferraris are going to come through, Hamilton and Leclerc.
05:05Russell is the new race leader and now we've got the virtual safety car.
05:10Oh, Bernie Collins, did they pull the pin too early on Kimi Antonelli?
05:15If he just waited one more lap, he would have got at least Leclerc.
05:20But because he bucked before the VSC was deployed and I think they didn't see that Carlos Sainz has stopped
05:25on the main straight.
05:26He played a full pit loss and is now behind Charles Leclerc.
05:29Why is this important? It's about 20 and a half seconds for a pit stop loss.
05:34It's about 10 and a half seconds if you do it under the virtual safety car.
05:39Tell me, too late.
05:41We tried it.
05:42Lewis.
05:44What is happening with the brakes?
05:47I have no confidence.
05:48Wow.
05:48We've got a brake split, mate.
05:50So one's hotter than the other.
05:52From Lewis Hamilton.
05:54Let's see what happens to Antonelli and Leclerc though, as they head down towards turn four.
05:59And Kimi Antonelli breezes past Charles Leclerc.
06:03And that Red Bull has got some pace at the hands of Max Verstappen.
06:07This is how Lewis Hamilton got past Isaac Hadjar.
06:11There seem to be a couple of bifold patio doors open there for Hamilton to drive into.
06:16I don't know Hadjar just went in there too deep by mistake.
06:20The race is on.
06:21More than TS.
06:23More than TS.
06:24Why do I have to go to more TS?
06:27I already have no power.
06:29Leclerc.
06:30Leclerc.
06:30Piastri.
06:31Hamilton.
06:32There goes Piastri down the inside towards turn three.
06:36Oh!
06:36It's tight.
06:37And they bang wheels on the exit.
06:40Not too hard.
06:41But Lewis Hamilton is now going to take advantage because Charles Leclerc definitely compromised.
06:45When Oscar Piastri went past him, Leclerc stays ahead of Hamilton there.
06:51Hamilton's going to go dancing around the outside of turn six.
06:53But he's going to try to anyway.
06:55And has got that advantage over Charles Leclerc, who made him work for it.
06:59But Hamilton's up to fifth.
07:01Piastri's up to fourth.
07:02And Charles Leclerc is not having the greatest of days.
07:04He's going to come out behind him.
07:06Whatever happens.
07:08Here's the run through turn two.
07:09Up the hill.
07:10Climbing to the highest point of this track.
07:12Turn three.
07:13Inside line.
07:14Oscar Piastri.
07:15Charles Leclerc was expecting that.
07:17Didn't fight it too hard.
07:19This is going to be a fascinating season.
07:21He might still be on for a podium today, Lewis Hamilton.
07:24Oh!
07:25Lance Stroll retiring.
07:26And Lando Norris coming into the pits.
07:29And taking advantage of the fact that McLaren have the first garage there.
07:33To just nip past the Aston Martin.
07:35As it was trundling its way in.
07:37As he comes out.
07:38Is that an unsafe release?
07:40No.
07:40He backed off.
07:41And had to.
07:42Because Franco Colopinto was boxing.
07:44Virtual safety car.
07:46Now why have we got a virtual safety car?
07:48We've got some debris on the track.
07:50Race is being neutralized.
07:52And I think there's some debris in turn three.
07:54Oh yeah.
07:54But one of the bollards has come away.
07:58So that's not going to be a virtual safety car for long.
08:01And it's Alex Albon.
08:03That looks like he hit it.
08:06Oh dear.
08:06If that happened two laps ago.
08:07Max Verstappen could have got a very cheap pit stop out of that one.
08:10And Alex didn't so much hit it as collected.
08:12Charles Leclerc coming out of the corner.
08:15Isaac Hadjar thought he had that overtake done.
08:17But Leclerc is going to battle away.
08:18And might get the inside line going into turn four.
08:22Has got that inside line.
08:23Lock up from Hadjar.
08:24As Charles Leclerc goes deep.
08:26This isn't done yet.
08:27On the exit.
08:28Hadjar.
08:28Wow.
08:29It's past Charles Leclerc.
08:31And thank you very much.
08:32Here's sixth place.
08:33His tyres are ****.
08:35We really appreciate it.
08:36Let's see what happens then between now and the chequered flag.
08:39As Lando Norris goes down the inside on Charles Leclerc.
08:42Who's just said if we box again.
08:43What have we got to lose?
08:44Nothing was the reply from the Ferrari pit wall.
08:47And his tyres have really gone off.
08:48And you can see why.
08:50There isn't much to lose.
08:51Because he hasn't got much to fight back with sadly.
08:53George Russell started on pole today.
08:56It has been a hot, hot race.
08:58And he has been the hottest of the lot.
09:01Now down the main straight he comes.
09:03George Russell wins the Austrian Grand Prix.
09:06Max Verstappen takes second for Red Bull.
09:09At the Red Bull ring.
09:10And Kimi Antonelli charging to the line.
09:13Just three tenths behind him in third.
09:16And George Russell back on the top step.
09:19Great job, mate.
09:22That was off two years ago.
09:24Yabba-dabba-doo.
09:25Yabba-dabba-doo.
09:27Well, well done, George.
09:28I'm happy.
09:28Well done.
09:29Thank you so-so.
09:30Good team result.
09:31Well done.
09:32Well done, everybody.
09:34Good job, Max.
09:35Well done.
09:38Throve the wheels off it.
09:39That's no more, mate.
09:40That's a joke.
09:40Well done.
09:41Yeah, it's the Claudius out.
09:46How are you doing?
09:49You've been the last man for the last.
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