George Russell probably didn’t fancy his chances to compete for a victory coming into the Austrian Grand Prix, but circumstances can change on a dime in Formula
One. That proved to be the case Sunday as the Mercedes driver took advantage of a scrap between the two race leaders, picking up the pieces to earn his second career win.
Following a lengthy late-race pit stop, Verstappen led Norris but just over a second with less than 20 laps to go and the McLaren, which had looked a step slower than the Red Bull all weekend, found new life. Norris put the three-time world champion under pressure over and over again at Turn 3 and frustration from both sides began to mount. Finally, on Lap 64, Norris had a look down the outside and Verstappen moved out left, colliding into the McLaren and sending both cars off the track.
Verstappen and Norris spent the entire afternoon on the same exact strategy, coming in on the same lap on both pre-incident pit stops. Then, on what should have been the Red Bull driver’s final stop of the race, the pit crew struggled to get his left rear tire off, resulting in a delay of more than six seconds. Small margins are everything in F1 and the mistake allowed Norris’s deficit to become less than two seconds, rather than eight.
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