2024 Austrian Grand Prix race report and highlights: Russell claims surprise win in Austria after Verstappen and Norris dramatically collide in battle for the lead

On the entrance, Verstappen had prolonged his result in over 5 seconds from Norris as Lap 14 ticked down. However issues weren’t going fairly so effectively for Leclerc close to the rear of the pack, with the Ferrari driver shedding a spot to the Williams of Albon to drop all the way down to P19.

Perez – working in seventh place – was reporting sidepod harm, having been caught up within the Lap 1 Leclerc/Piastri incident. Magnussen, in the meantime, was apparently not within the temper to save lots of tyres after being requested to take action by his engineer, providing a sweary response to the request.

As many groups appeared to be considering switching to a three-stop technique, Leclerc’s day continued to go from dangerous to worse, with the Monaco Grand Prix winner pitting for medium tyres to emerge on the very again of the sphere and seemingly on target to be lapped by Verstappen.

With a lot of the front-runners but to pit, Norris was informed by his engineer that the laborious compound regarded “poor”, although the Briton was reminded that he had two units of mediums left, a potential benefit on condition that the Pink Bull staff didn’t have the identical out there.

Elsewhere, the stewards have been being stored busy. Zhou voiced his annoyance after being punted off observe by Alonso, prompting an investigation which resulted in a 10-second time penalty for the latter. Hamilton, in the meantime, had been famous for probably crossing the white line on pit entry, and this gave the seven-time world champion a five-second penalty.