Norris wins Austrian GP; reduces Piastri’s F1 title lead

Lando Norris’s seventh vocation GP triumph cuts Oscar Piastri’s title pb from 22 to 15 points aft 11 rounds.

Lando Norris has held disconnected a race-long situation from his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri to triumph the Austrian Grand Prix and assistance his Formula 1 rubric hopes.

Norris and Piastri battled for the pb successful the aboriginal stages of the contention connected Sunday with the Australian concisely successful the pb earlier Norris took the presumption back. A rash lunge by Piastri astir caused a collision soon after.

Piastri mislaid crushed astatine the pit stops and was tally wide onto the writer by Alpine’s Franco Colapinto portion cutting done traffic. He soon made up crushed connected Norris but wasn’t rather adjacent capable to effort overtaking.

Over the radio, Norris called it a “beautiful one-two” decorativeness for the team.

“We had a large battle, that’s for sure,” helium added later. “A batch of accent but a batch of fun. A bully battle, truthful good done to Oscar.”

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, 2nd from left, crashes retired aft a archetypal thigh collision with Mercedes’s Italian rookie Kimi Antonelli [Gintare Karpaviciute/Reuters]

A two-horse contention astatine the top

More than ever this season, the rubric combat focuses connected the 2 McLarens aft defending champion Max Verstappen was deed by Kimi Antonelli connected the opening lap, ending his race. Antonelli was aboriginal handed a three-place grid punishment for the adjacent race.

Overall person Piastri leads second-placed Norris by 15 points with Verstappen inactive 3rd but present 61 disconnected the lead.

Piastri apologised to McLaren for the near-collision betwixt the two, which came 1 contention aft Norris collided with him successful Canada. The Australian said helium regretted not making much of his fewer seconds successful the pb earlier successful the race.

“I anticipation it was bully watching due to the fact that it was beauteous hard enactment from the car,” Piastri said. “I tried my implicit champion and astir apt could person done a amended occupation erstwhile I conscionable got up momentarily. It was a bully battle, a spot connected the borderline astatine times.”

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, left, and teammate Lando Norris successful enactment during the aboriginal stages of the contention [Gintare Karpaviciute/Reuters]

Ferrari beardown with 3rd and fourth

Charles Leclerc was 3rd for his 3rd podium decorativeness successful 4 races, and his Ferrari teammate Lewis Hamilton was fourth.

George Russell, who won the past contention successful Canada, was 5th for Mercedes and Liam Lawson sixth for Racing Bulls successful his champion effect of the season.

Fernando Alonso of Aston Martin held disconnected Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto for seventh. The 2nd Sauber of Nico Hulkenberg was ninth, and Esteban Ocon finished 10th for Haas.

McLaren are 207 points wide of Ferrari – who moved backmost up to 2nd successful the lack of squad brag Fred Vasseur, who had to instrumentality location for idiosyncratic reasons – successful the constructors championship.

Round 12 of the F1 World Championship takes spot adjacent play astatine the British Grand Prix.

McLaren’s Lando Norris passes the chequered emblem to triumph the Austrian Grand Prix [Leonhard Foeger/Reuters]