NORRIS WINS IN CONTROLLED AUSTRIA PERFORMANCE

Formula One was in Austria at the Red Bull Ring for round eleven of this years World Championship as the fight intensifies between Norris and Piastri vying for their first World Championship titles. In the end it was the McLaren of Lando Norris who stayed coolest in the Austrian sun as he bounced back from a disappointing Canadian Grand Prix weekend. His teammate and championship leader Oscar Piastri took second to keep his lead to just fifteen points, the final podium place went to the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc who claims his fourth podium of 2025.

The action began before we got racing around Spielberg as the Williams of Carlos Sainz who doesn’t initially get off the grid for the formation lap and eventually gets going and pulls into the pits on his return as is the rules in this situation but as he stops at the end of the pit lane his rear brakes set alight and is forced to retire from the race before doing one racing lap.

Eventually we did get racing after a second formation lap as Lando Norris kept his lead into turn one with Oscar Piastri managing to pass the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc for second.

As we head to turn three the scene of many a collision not just throughout history but also this weekend in F2 especially it was 'home hero' Max Verstappen who is spun round after contact with Kimi Antonelli and both are out of the race just three corners into the first lap. Antonelli tried to brake late into turn three and locks up and was a passenger in a sense to the crash he has ultimately caused. The Safety Car is deployed.

In what will be a massive dent to Vertsappen's title hopes as he now sits sixty one points behind Championship leader Piastri.

The green flag was shown on lap three as we got back underway with Norris holding first and Piastri second, Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton in third and fourth with George Russell putting his Mercedes in fifth.

To show the real depth of the McLaren dominance this year by fifteen laps into the race despite fighting for the lead the two McLaren’s have managed to pull five seconds to third placed Leclerc.

It was lap seventeen when the Williams weekend went from bad to worse as Alex Albon is forced to retire in a weekend to forget for Williams.

The final moment of drama in Austria came when the struggling Red Bull of Yuki Tsunoda and the Alpine of Franco Colapinto touch and the Alpine is spun round into turn five. Colapinto is able to carry on, with the sole remaining Red Bull getting a ten second time penalty for his actions.

The standout drive from today is in the form of F2 Champion and Sauber driver Gabriel Bortoleto who takes his first points of the season in a brilliant display from the Brazilian driver after putting his Sauber in the top ten yesterday in qualifying.

The next race is the British Grand Prix.

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