Marko Hanželic
Max Verstappen he sovereignly won Styrian Grand Prix and thus celebrated its fourth victory this year, further increasing its lead in the overall standings over today's second-placed Lewis Hamilton.
It's for the race weather forecast predicted a relatively high probability of rain, which in the end was not, so the race was in Spielberg primarily a strategic battlefield in which the management of tires and "Keeping them alive."
It's at the very beginning Verstappen, who started with position field, managed to keep the advantage over Hamilton, he was in third place Lando Norris, who managed to keep Bottas and Perez behind him. The race started badly for Pierre Gasly in Charles Leclerc, who had close contact in the third turn, all of which resulted in a punctured tire and a resignation for the Frenchman, Monachan however, he had to go to the pits for new front wings.
It's the first ten laps Norris still managed to hold the spot on the podium, then overtook him first Perez, and something after that Bottas, so the Briton fell to fifth place, which was still significantly better than his teammate Ricciardo, who in thirteenth place sued that the propulsion unit was on his McLarn lost in power. Things for the Australian later apparently settled on their own.
They started the race very well at Williams, it is Russell, who started from tenth place, had already gained two places and was fully competitive Alonso in Tsunoda. In the 25th lap, he took care of holding his breath in the Mercedes garage Hamilton, which took his backside on the curb that demarcates the trail and the excursion zone, but the experienced Briton managed to escape. Two laps later, his potential teammate for next season, George Russell, lost hope of his first points with Williams, as he was in the pits for a long time for the first time, and in the 39th lap he had to resign due to problems with the drive unit.
Before that, the first four appeared in the pits, and he pulled the shortest Sergio Perez, who lost his place against due to a long stop Valtteri Bottas. Despite the pitch at the start of the race Charles Leclerc managed to gain a nice number of places and is at the end won 7th place.
While his teammate Verstappen increase the advantage over Hamilton, Yippee Sergio Perez, who stopped twice in the pits, reduced the gap by Valtteri Bottas. The latter has already started to struggle with tires and Mexican he started to melt Finč's advantage a good ten laps before the end, but he did not manage to cancel it by the end of the race. The lap before the end he turned into the pits again Hamilton, which had sufficient advantages over Bottasthat he did not overtake him, and drove the fastest lap and secured an extra point in the fight for the title.
Red Bull celebrated on his racetrack the sovereign victory with which he Verstappen further increased the advantage over Hamilton. They ranked behind the first four Lando Norris (McLaren), Carlos Sainz, Charles Leclerc (both Ferrari), Lance stroll (Aston Martin), and they scored more points Fernando Alonso (Alpine) and Yuki tsunoda (AlphaTauri).
