Lando Norris won the Austrian Grand Prix of the Pole Position in a McLaren One-Two on Sunday after defending the leading teammate in the Oscar Piestri championship in an early wheel duel to the wheel and then resist the intense pressure until the end.
The third victory of the Briton season reduced the advantage of Formula one of Australian piastri from 22 to 15 points after 11 of 24 rounds, with the two McLaren pilots locked in a battle for the increasingly private title.
Charles Leclerc completed the podium for Ferrari with his teammate Lewis Hamilton Cuarto and George Russell, last year’s winner in Austria, fifth for Mercedes.
The four -time World Red Bull champion, Max Verstappen, suffered his first retirement from the season, in his team’s local race, after a first round collision with the Italian rookie from Mercedes Kimi Antonelli.
The Dutch pilot was third in general, but now it is 61 points behind Piasstri in the classification of the championship.
“Tricky, hot, exhausting,” Norris said after leaving the car at the end of the 70 -round race on a suffocating Sunday. “A lot of stress but very funny. A good battle, so well done to the Oscar.
“Hopefully it was good for everyone to look, but inside the car it was difficult, especially when it was in the DRES (drag reduction range).” Piastri, who took advantage of the second place of Leclerc after an aborted first beginning, established the fastest return of the race.
He took the lead momentarily in Tour 11 in an intense battle, but Norris grabbed her directly in a duel that risked a repetition of the collision between the couple in the previous race in Canada.
Norris caused that, and came out empty, but this time it was Piastri who had the chiefs of McLaren changing restlessly on the boxes wall when he locked himself with a smoke breath in lap 20 while sought to sneak inside.
Neozyre Liam Lawson took the best end of his career in sixth place for bull races with Fernando Alonso Seventh for Aston Martin, the Spanish who ended in front of the Brazilian rookie of Sauber Gabriel Bortoleto.
The points were Bortoleto in F1 and, to make it even sweeter, Sauber took a double point, with Nico Hulkenberg ending ninth. Hulkenberg was Sauber’s first pilot from Valtteri Bottas in 2022 to score in three in a row.
Esteban Ocon took the end point for Haas.
McLaren is 207 points from Ferrari, who backed the second in the absence of the chief of the Fred Vasseur team, who had to return home for personal reasons, in the Constructors Championship.
