Max Verstappen won the Sprint of the Austrian GP. The Dutchman from Red Bull dominated ahead of the McLarens of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, with whom he started a great duel. Fourth place for George Russell’s Mercedes and fifth for Carlos Sainz junior’s Ferrari. Sixth Lewis Hamilton, seventh Charles Leclerc with the second red, then Sergio Perez with the second Red Bull. At 4pm the fight for pole for the GP which will take place on Sunday.
verstappen implacable
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Verstappen proved to be an unstoppable machine. Despite some power unit management issues in the early stages of the race, the Dutchman managed to finish the 23 laps of the short race with a comfortable margin of 4″6 over Piastri, who was deadly in taking advantage of the door left open by his teammate Lando Norris, unleashed in attacking Verstappen. The key moment came on the fifth lap, when Lando attacked and passed Max, who however crossed the trajectory and with the DRS took back the lead in the following braking point. And right there Norris was caught off guard: overtaken by Max, he was unable to close the door where his Australian teammate also slipped in. Another bitter pill to swallow for Lando.
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there is battle
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Behind the top three, it was George Russell who got the better of Sainz’s Ferrari. Then Hamilton got the better of Leclerc, penalized by a temperature management problem that prevented him from attacking the Mercedes of his future teammate at the Prancing Horse. Leclerc explained however that speed was lacking and that in the afternoon qualifying he will try to risk something with the set-up to try to compete for one of the top positions on the grid, which is essential to not lose ground in the early stages of the race. Which promises to be very interesting because this weekend we saw that there could be a battle between Red Bull and McLaren, with Mercedes and Ferrari currently in second place but ready to take advantage of the mistakes of the leaders.
