Round 9 - Austrian GP
Updated: Jul 18
Max Verstappen with his 3rd win in a row!!! Unbeatable!
Final Result
Max Verstappen won the Austrian GP! Leading the entire race, gave no chance to anybody, also had the fastest lap of the race gaining that extra 1 point for the Drivers Championship (2021 DHL Fastest Lap Award), 32 points ahead of Lewis Hamilton now, will we see the Dutch driver winning the Championship this year? The circuit was full of oranges!
Bottas finished in 2nd, just ahead of Lando Norris in 3rd, who did an incredible race for the McLaren, finishing just ahead of Lewis Hamilton in 4th, he had his car a bit damaged in the first curve before, degrading his Mercedes performance.
In 5th was Carlos Sainz, he was able to be in less than 10 seconds gap to Sergio Pérez, who had two +5 seconds penalties for forcing Leclerc out of the track, the Mexican driver finished in 6th, ahead of Daniel Riccardo in 7th, the Australian resisted to the attack of Charles Leclerc in 8th.
Completing the top 10, Pierre Gasly in 9th and Fernando Alonso in 10th, he passed George Russell in the end, the British driver almost finished in the points for Williams, which would be the first time running for the team, he did his very best.
Please, invite you to watch the resume of the race on the link below.
2021 Austrian GP Highlights video
Drivers standings Team standings
Next Grand Prix
The next race will be in two weeks in UK, it will be the Round 10 of this 2021 Season. So we will be racing again from July 16th to 18th, with the race on Sunday, July 18th, at 3:00pm local time, 10:00pm in Taiwan.
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