A dominant 1-2 for a high-level team and a very bad day for its main rival, but McLaren and Red Bull were not the only teams of Formula 1 to have had a very contrasting fortune in the Austrian Grand Prix.
Here is our choice of winners and losers of the day of the Red Bull Ring race.
Loser: Red Bull – 16th / DNF
Red Bull appreciated 77 weekends of F1 scores of 77 points before this one.
Max Verstappen was removed by Kimi Antonelli – the two pilots Manage – And Yuki Tsunoda was unable to walk around the team’s home race.
Tsunoda had an scrap with Stroll lance very early, then slipped Franco Colapinto into a lap, taking a 10 second penalty and finishing two laps in 16th place – far behind the two racing bulls.
Red Bull has long had a second driver problem, not only underlined on Sunday, but by this sequence of points, during which Verstappen reported 68.4% of the points of the 2022 Saudi Arabia team in Canada 2025.
The answer is not clear, and it probably does not reside in another hasty driver change. But that doesn’t help things that Tsunoda woves. – Samarth Kanal
Winner: Lando Norris – 1st
Boy did Lando Norris needed.
It was not the flight victory that many could have expected after Norris crushing qualification display One day earlier. And perhaps for some, this means that the question points remain above Norris, given his affinity for the Red Bull Ring circuit.
This will not matter for Norris, who had an answer to everything Oscar Piastri launched to him. Job is on the next one. – Jack Cozens
Winner: Gabriel Bortoleto – 8th
This is exactly what Gabriel Bortoleto is capable when everything gathers.
From the eighth, finishing the eighth, keeping the nose specific in the middle of pensions and collisions, and even going beyond his manager Fernando Alonso.
The Sauber and Aston Martin finished half a second participation after a duel of the late race, and Alonso was clearly impressed by his protégé when he congratulated the young Brazilian in the firm park.
It is this medium shift that earned Bortoleto this Maiden points score, while Sauber graciously exchanged it and Nico Hulkenberg before halfway to ensure equity. Beating Alonso would have been the icing on the cake. – Skin
Loser: Kimi Antonelli – DNF
Out of Tour one. “Fully at fault” for that. Quite anonymous all weekend before that.
Kimi Antonelli said before the week he wanted to get closer “a little more” to the approach he had for his first F1 weekend in Monza last year, when he crashed very early in FP1.
The circumstances are different, but the end result was a little too close to the rehearsal of this. – JC
Winner: McLaren – 1st / 2nd
McLaren finds himself in the chronicle of winners as much to allow his two championship challengers to run mutually as for his domination. Especially two weeks after the first tracking on track between Norris and Piastri.
He let his pilots run, he let the two sides of the Pittwall do the same, and he approached the Piastri slit at turn 4 with the kind of message that was not too hard while undoubtedly leaving him that he had crossed a line. His immediate post-course radio message, apologizing for the incident, confirmed it as much.
Oh, and he could have triggered a package that upgraded him Better to unbeatable. – JC
Winner: Liam Lawson – 6th
Liam Lawson seemed to be a little amazed after claiming the best result of his F1 career, equal to sixth place that the teammate of the Bulls of Rookie Rookie Bulls Isack Hadjar succeeded in Monaco and finished the weekend as the most score of the Red Bull stable.
This result was not assisted by teammate like Monaco One of Hadjar, he came from an excellent qualification performance, a little luck surviving at the Antonelli missile in the first round, then a very well executed one -looking strategy. – Ben Anderson
Loser: Williams – DNF / DNF
A second duplicate of the season threatens Williams’ hopes to keep fifth place in manufacturers.
Given that Hulkenberg managed to score points for Sauber after qualifying the 20th, his retirement from the training of his partner of the Carlos Sainz row in the pitlades will seem even more painful.
Meanwhile, Alex Albon was surely underway, after freed from a dead end from the DRS train in the form of Pierre Gasly at the start of the race. Instead, Racing Bulls was the best of the rest, Aston Martin scored again, Sauber obtained the two cars in the points and Esteban Ocon slipped the last for Haas in 10th.
Another missed chance in Williams, with reliability problems turning painful. – Skin
Winner: Charles Leclerc – 3rd
Charles Leclerc will probably not feel like a winner, given that the McLarens have finished 20 years on the road despite the mutually slowdown for the first 20 laps.
But with Verstappen outside the image and the Mercedes Wilting of George Russell as planned in the heat, Leclerc obtained the best result which he could have expected in a realistic way for Ferrari and His brand new floor. – Ba
Loser: Alpine – 13/15th
A day when the four teams immediately in front of the championship scored points must be lowered like any other defeat for the Alpine besieged team.
Gasly seemed to have a big shot in the top six, but his race collapsed while the degradation of the tires and what he felt was unpertified car damage caused for an increasingly furious fall in order.
Co -team co -team, already Feel the warmth of Flavio Briatore For a continuous sub-performance of qualifications, another difficult race without marked points.
With Sauber managing to raise the two cars in the top 10 here, Alpine is now a huge 15 points at the foot of the manufacturers’ championship. – Ba
Winner: Fernando Alonso – 7th
Typical Alonso. The veteran wore Aston Martin on his shoulders with a daring window in the flamboyant heat. He barely set foot badly on two incredibly consistent stays and even held a hard bortoleto at the end – despite the 17 -round tires.
This second passage underlines how talented Alonso is. He spent 36 laps on hard tires, with an average of 1m10.443 – three tenths of a second faster than the passage of the middle of 26 laps of Bortoleto on medium tires, which was itself far from the glacial. – Skin
Loser: Mercedes – 5th / DNF
Russell’s fifth place will probably do very well for Mercedes. He suspected that all weekend, he could disappear from a long-standing circuit like the Red Bull ring and against particularly high temperatures.
But let’s not forget the fortuitous circumstances or not, she won this race in 2024. A year later, and Russell was more than a minute from the race winner, over 40 years from the Ferrari head, and only five seconds from a racing bull.
And it’s not like Antonelli seems to do more than this weekend before its early release either, right? – JC
Winner: SAUBER – 8th / 9th
A long wait for a double finish – 629 days, because Qatar GP in October 2023 – is finished for Sauber.
Of course, it could have been slightly better if Bortoleto could have found a way to bypass Alonso in the fence towers.
But this performance combined the rhythm and the strategic breast – Sauber has put Hulkenberg in the points on the back of the field – and means Sauber has scored more points than any of its realistic rivals at the last four Grands Prix.
Evidence (if they were still necessary) that the C45 is now in the midfielder’s mixture. – Jc
