Max Verstappen received the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix dash race after heading off an intense early assault from McLaren Method 1 team-mates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.
After the competition had been shortened to 23 laps as an additional formation lap was required attributable to photographers standing behind the boundaries on the first nook posing a security danger, Verstappen simply led away from pole forward of Norris.
For the remainder of the opening tour, Norris defended towards Piastri, who had began third, whereas behind Carlos Sainz battled by George Russell’s Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton chased on in sixth.
With Verstappen unable to flee DRS risk from Norris within the early laps, the Pink Bull driver was even moved to defend the within traces at Turns 3 and 4, earlier than Norris attacked onerous on the former on lap 5.
Having braked very late for the uphill right-hander, Norris and Verstappen went deep, which allowed Piastri to get amongst the motion by way of the next DRS zone heading again down the hill to Flip 4.
There, Norris left sufficient area on the within for Verstappen to hit again instantly and retake the lead regardless of locking up his proper entrance, which despatched Norris barely large and created a niche that Piastri surged into to take second from his team-mate.
The battle on the entrance allowed the chasing pack to shut in, with Russell combating his well past Sainz to retake fourth with a DRS-assisted run across the outdoors at Flip 4 on lap eight – simply as Verstappen was beginning to draw back from the McLarens.
The Dutchman lastly snapped DRS to Piastri on lap 10 and from there he merely eased away to take his second third dash win of the 2024 season.
Norris, having fallen to almost two seconds behind Piastri whereas Verstappen was steadily including chunks to his lead, closed again in on the lead McLaren and frequently received shut utilizing DRS.
However Piastri held on to complete second 4.6s behind Verstappen and 0.7s in entrance of Norris.
Russell dropped again from the McLaren pair over the race’s second half to complete three seconds behind Norris in fourth, with different gaps spreading out between the remainder of the main pack too.
Sainz was a bit again from Russell by the top and needed to fend off the shut attentions of Hamilton, whereas Charles Leclerc was 2.2s behind the Mercedes in seventh and three.9s behind Sergio Perez, who accomplished the factors positions within the different Pink Bull, 17.4s adrift of the successful one.
Leclerc’s dash race was reworked with a superb opening lap when he climbed from his beginning spot in tenth to run seventh nearly instantly, whereas behind there was curiosity as Esteban Ocon held off Pierre Gasly to win an intra-Alpine scrap over eleventh.
Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg faces a post-race investigation for showing to pressure Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso off the observe at Flip 3 with a late, locked-up dive. The pair ended up 14th and sixteenth, break up by RB driver Daniel Ricciardo.
