Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas cruised to victory in the Austrian Grand Prix, after making a bullet start he took command of the race and stayed in control all afternoon. withstanding a late race challenge from Sebastian Vettel who finished second.
Bottas’ start was stupendous, his reaction time 0.2 of a second, and thereafter kept the lead for the 71 laps. Vettel chased all afternoon, coming on strong in the final dozen laps where he reeled in the Mercedes relentlessly but fell agonisingly short.
Behind the leaders Daniel Ricciardo and Lewis Hamilton, who started eighth slugged it out for the final spot on the podium, the Mercedes driver threw everything at it but the Red Bull driver denied him to claim third place at his team’s home race.
Thus a largely dull afternoon reached a nail biting finale, but in the end no late race dramas despite the excitement.
Prior to that the only other real drama was the first turn collision which resulted in instant DNFs for Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and McLaren driver Fernando Alonso..
Verstappen had a clutch issue and was slow off the line, he was engulfed by Alonso and Daniil Kvyat’s Toro Rosso as they zoomed into Turn 1. Kvyat overdid it and smacked the rear of Alonso’s McLaren who clipped the Red Bull of Verstappen.
Although Kvyat survived, and was handed a drive through penalty for causing an accident. But he contact did enough damage to sideline Alonso and Verstappen.
Report in progress…
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