- Verstappen’s championship lead over Leclerc cut to 38 points
- Mercedes’s Lewis Hamilton and George Russell third and fourth
Charles Leclerc won the Austrian Grand Prix for Ferrari with a superb decisive run, soundly seeing off the challenge from his title rival, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who was second at the Red Bull Ring. Lewis Hamilton was in third for Mercedes, with his teammate George Russell in fourth, a great recovery for the latter having dropped to 18th at one point. Esteban Ocon was in fifth for Alpine.
With a genuinely competitive car Leclerc was indomitable in Austria, passing Verstappen on track three times during the race to secure the win, while his teammate Carlos Sainz was hugely disappointed not to make it a one-two when he was forced to retire near the end. For Hamilton it was a third podium in a row as Mercedes continue to make forward strides with their car.