Norris resists piastri and triumphs in Austria, Podio Ferrari with Leclerc 3rd

McLaren does not even leave the crumbs: in a very hot race, both from a climatic point of view (there were 50 degrees on the asphalt) and sporty, the Woking team conquers the 53rd brace in its history, confirming the clear technical superiority of the papaya single -seater. Andrea Stella’s team has now added a score in the World Cup that almost raises the first opponent. And that’s all …

Lando Norris collects the seventh career victory which is the third seasonal: after the sensational error of English in Detroit, we saw a decidedly different lands. Not very emotional, much more similar in the cold attitude of Oscar Plastri: since it climbed to the MCL39 in the second round of free practice, Lando has always been the fastest.

Instead, he signed pole position and success, leaving the fastest lap in Piattri (1’07 “924) who attempted the final comeback. Norris takes 15 lengths from his teammate who must” be satisfied “of second place at just over two seconds.

The Australian started with the knife between his teeth: while Norris wanted to scramble the tires, being able to count on the supremacy McLaren who grows with increasing temperature, Oscar wanted to put pressure on his rival bringing an attack on Giro 19 that for a hair he did not turn into a contact.

Woking’s wall then decided to “manage” the pit stops by distancing the two stops, but a very caric Oscar has been able to bring Norris back to the queue, also exploiting the possibility of exploiting more than Lando the overtaking of the dubbed with the DRS.

Norris was relentless because he did not commit the slightest smudging, deserving victory. McLaren in Austria, the Red Bull’s track, gave Max Verstappen’s world illusions a blow from Ko: the Dutchman disappeared on stage on the first round rammed by Kimi Antonelli at Curva 3, author of a serious evaluation error in detached (he could cost him a penalty to Silverstone …). The Dutchman is now at 66 points, a margin that will not be possible to recover with these papaya cars.

The Red Bull remains out of the points because Yuki Tsunoda has not been able to raise at least one point: the Japanese also deserved a penalty of 10 seconds for having sent Franco Colapinto to Giro 30 in the testacoda. The Milton Keynes team collapsed in fourth place in the manufacturers’ World Cup. A real disaster.

A beautiful Ferrari has sprung up behind the McLaren. Third with Charles Leclerc and fourth with Lewis Hamilton. The stable, aware of its limits, has been able to collect the maximum result, regaining the second position between the teams against Mercedes for a point. The new bottom has given the most loaded SF-25 and a qualitative leap that allowed her to be the first pursuer of the MCL39 which still have a margin of three tenths at the lap, but all the others have ended up behind, very detached.

Leclerc, forced from the first lap to the “Lift and Coast” to preserve the brakes, was superb: the Monegasque became an excellent interpreter in preserving the tires. More fluctuating Lewis Hamilton, however classified immediately behind the teammate. The stable in Stiria finds a point of restart of its season waiting for the most substantial news to arrive (the rear suspension in Spa and another bottom in Hungary).

The great defeat, together with the Red Bull who has never been to the game, is Mercedes. After the victory in Canada, the black and silver arrow literally disappeared: the W16 suffers the heat and has been seen. George Russell closed fifth, but what weighs is the detachment: 33 seconds from Ferrari and one minute from McLaren. The star has not shone, suffering more than expected. Antonelli has made a youth mistake that will be part of his growth path.

The hero of the day is Liam Lawson, “resurrected” as a pilot. The New Zealand captures the sixth place with the Racing Bulls, hitting the strategy to a stop that also succeeded in the old Marpione Fernando Alonso. Liam collected the work of reconstruction of trust and captures the first points that move his ranking, but above all allow overtaking against Haas.

Attention also to Sauber (more and more Audi): two C45 points with Gabriel Bortoleto eighth, for the first time in Top 10, followed by Nico Hulkenberg. Gabriel concluded in the best way a very positive weekend becoming the youngest Brazilian points in the history of F1. And Sauber shows concreteness with two cars in the ten.

Haas put Esteban Ocon in tenth position in front of his partner Ollie Bearman after a departure from the 17th square: he could not hope for anything more.

Williams badly: Alexander Albon, after a good start, was stopped following the pit stop on lap 13 for temperature problems. And Carlos Sainz was not even able to take sides: his Williams, in fact, was blocked on the grid before the training lap. After being pushed by the commissioners, the Spaniard managed to start and at the end of the round he returned to the pits to take the way from Pit Lane. As soon as he stopped from the outbursts of the warm air of the brakes, they released the flames due to the locking caused by the BRAKE by Wire’s age. Once the fire is turned off, the team hospitalized the FW47 in the box and withdrew the car. Zero points.

Isak Jadjar, 12th with the second Racing Bulls, preceded Pierre Gasly: ​​the Frenchman cannot give the first point to the alpine in a moment of great agitation of the Enstone team for the problems that grip it. Franco Colapinto, 15th, feels the breath on the neck again: in the paddock there is talk of a return of Lawson on the A525. The Argentine remedied a penalty of 5 seconds for hindering the dubbing of piastri: nothing intentional, because Oscar had not seen him. But Patatrac would have been serious …