Lando Norris claimed his third victory of the F1 season at the Red Bull Ring to reduce Oscar Piastri’s championship advantage to 15 points, as Max Verstappen was taken out on the first lap.
Lando Norris beat team-mate Oscar Piastri to claim victory at the Austrian Grand Prix by over two seconds.
The McLaren pair fought an enthralling battle throughout the 70-lap contest at the Red Bull Ring. Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc rounded out the podium places in Spielberg.
The constructors’ champions did intervene between its two drivers mid-way through the proceedings, after Piastri attempted an audacious and ill-advised move into Turn 4. Following that, their fight never quite got going again.
It was a chaotic start to the race, with Carlos Sainz failing to make the start. It led to an aborted start and the grand prix distance reduced by a lap.
Kimi Antonelli took out Max Verstappen at the third corner once the race did eventually get underway, forcing both instantly into retirement.
Gabriel Bortoleto finished in eighth to claim the first points of his F1 career and the first for a Brazilian driver since Felipe Massa in the final race of the 2017 season.
The remaining 19 runners got underway, and Piastri immediately dispatched of Leclerc to make it a McLaren one-two.
