Lando Norris won the Austrian GP of F1 2025 ahead of his partner and World Cup leader, Oscar Piastri (2nd)with Leclerc (3rd) in another double of McLaren, this time, with an overwhelming, or rather insulting superiority, in a race that meant a turning point in the fight for the crown. It is already a matter of two, Norris and Piastri, after an appointment in which Fernando Alonso executed another great plan to be 7th and in which Sainz could not or take the exit for more problems in his Williams.
(+) Thus we have lived the Austria GP:
Lando Norris won the Austrian GP played at the Red Bull Ring, achieving his third victory of the year and the seventh in F1, ahead of his partner in McLaren, Oscar Pastri
But let's go back to the fight for the crown: the abandonment of Verstappen for a touch of Antonelli in the first round leaves the current king in the offside, in technical KO, already too far from the battle to defend his scepter and with a worse car. And the result of the race causes Norris to cut 7 points of rennet to his brother car, staying only 15 points from the Piastri leader in the absence of 13 assaults.
Read too
The thing can be very tense in the remaining world between the two woking carsas he did in the first part of the race at the Red Bull Ring this Sunday, where Lando Norris exhibited, putting the golden brooch to his great weekend, in which he took his pride for a walk, replenishing from his Garapal error of Canada to a thousand wonders.
He promised strong emotions the face between Oscar Piestri and Lando Norrisjust two weeks after the touch from Lando to Australian. But McLaren was in charge of ending what could be an exciting struggle between his two cars, the face -to -face fight they need Norris and Piastri to convert their confrontation fratricida by the crown into the epic battle that deserves an entire F1. A struggle without barracks between the two would have added all the necessary elements to his face to face, so far a little bland and lacking epic and tension. McLaren took out that fight to put it in the fridge, leaving the strategy in the hands of an Oscar that did not succeed.
A spectacular struggle that promised
The race began with a good departure from Norris, which this time was up to an aspiring champion by not making mistakes in those first meters after achieving a overwhelming pole. And Piastri quickly got into the race by overcoming Charles on the outside of curve 1.
There, the two McLaren began to escape and began their fight, which had to generate some microinfarto in the team wall. On lap 11, the 'show' began. The curtain was opened with Piastri attacking inside the 3 to Norris curve. Lando, this time, reacted with a teacher maneuver: he knew that his opponent would attack him inside, so he changed his entrance path to make a loop out-within Pastri and go out with better traction. The temperature, already high, increased. They were placed in parallel on the line prior to curve 4. Norris acted with intelligence when he secured the interior, stopped strong and kept his position.
Norris and Piastri, in Austria
Plasters cases if choca with Norris
The two McLaren were giving a huge show and we had to applaud the courage of the Woking team to freely battle their two sets, wearing the Carrerist spirit that defends his CEO, Zak Brown. The thing continued. Piastri was attached to Lando, which under pressure, went long in curve 10, touching the gravel. He risked to have damaged the ground. And on Vuelta 20, Oscar attack again, this time, too optimistic and risky: he threw himself from his home inside the curve 4 before a Lando that did not yield. They almost play. For the hairs. And that's when McLaren said 'enough'. They called Lando to Boxes and left Piastri on the track. They then asked Oscar if he preferred to get out of boxes 4 seconds instead of 1 “5, but with a younger rubber. Oscar decided that option and not enter the return return to Lando. Error.
The strategy harms Piastri
It is logical to prioritize the one who goes 1 on track, stopping it before. But the normal thing in these cases is to stop at 2nd a return later. However, Oscar was asked and acted based on it: they left 5 more turns on the track, with a different strategy that would end up paying. I could have a fresher tire in the next batch, in a two stop strategy for both pilots. But it was useless. A bad McLaren stop, with a problem in the left front wheel, made Oscar return to the track at 6 “1 of Norris, instead of the 4” who had assured him before.
The Australian's rhythm was superior and managed to cut up to 3 seconds, but there, the bending ones appeared, harming Piestri more, especially when Hülkenberg was found with new rubber in front: he lost a second there.
And after Oscar's second stop, already without a tire advantage over Norris, he returned to the asphalt to 3 “3, but a fight for position between Tsunoda and Colapint was found right. The Argentine did not see him and touched him, taking the World Cup leader to step on the grass.
A disaster could occur. The Australian avoided it, but lost another second, and already more than 4 “from Norris, had no options.
Did McLaren stop Piastri in the return return to Norris? The show would have thanked it. The hearts of the McLaren bosses thanked the opposite because that strategy prevented the battle between colleagues until the end. Thus avoided a possible clash between them. There are 13 races left and everything is yet decided. In McLaren they preferred to postpone a possible pique between their two pupils.
Ferrari, according to
Ferrari took a step forward with the arrival of a new floor in his cars, although it is unknown if it is due to the characteristics of the track. They must confirm it in Silverstone. However, the improvement is still not enough. Ferrari was in Spielberg the 2nd best team, leaving Russell to more than 20 seconds with his Mercedes. Leclerc was 3rd, with Hamilton 7 seconds in the 4th place And the superiority of Charles Before 7 times champion. But in turn, Ferrari He was very far from the triumph. To a world: 16 seconds from the winner on a track as short as the Red Bull Ring.
Leclerc, podium in Austria with its Ferrari
Alonso, another perfect career
Fernando Alonso warned before this GP that he did not have much hope of achieving a good result in Austria. It should be a bad circuit for his car and looked with better expectations at the career next week, in Silverstone, with the arrival of new pieces. However, the Asturian returned to Complete a perfect weekend without errors, maximizing the potential of your car on a return and in the race and taking advantage of the mistakes of your opponents to finish 7th. Sublime.
The Spanish warned that it was not very optimistic before the race. He had spent the whole weekend changing the whole car, from top to bottom, but his car was still surviving in slow curve and subviring in rapid curve. A complex combination to be fast. He pressed everything, fighting with his car, to achieve a large 11th place in classification that allowed him to dream of the points despite complications. Old dog, the Ovetense knew that scoring was difficult, but not impossible, and warned of the troubles that are usually in curve 3. One of them caused the double abandonment of Antonelli and Verstappen, which gave him two free positions. And Albon's goodbye took another rival who came out just after him with a better career rhythm.
His fight became for the 7th, 8th or 9th. He then opted for a more risky strategy: go to a stop. To do this, he needed to maintain the distance with the DRs of his rivals so as not to get off the way, but in turn, manage the degradation of the rubber in dirty air. That best strategy instead of the two Bortoleto stops also allowed him to win the square of his Brazilian pupil of Sauber. He rolled for much of the race attached to Lawson (6th), taking advantage of his DRS. I didn't want to happen because I didn't have the rhythm to throw. And if he had moved away from his DRS, he would have lost positions. He grabbed him, pulling with everything in the curves not to take off, And that was key to having a rhythm that his car did not have. New LESSON OF FERNANDO Carrerista to end in a 7th unthinkable position for his car in this circuit, defending himself from Bortoleto until the end with another master class despite the fact that the Brazilian had much more rhythm Because I wore 17 younger turns. A blue flag in the last turn because Norris folded both helped him in that battle against a Gabriel who was 8th before a Hülkenberg that finished 9th despite the last.
This result allows Alonso to tie 14 points with his partner, Strollwhich was 14 with the same car. As soon as bad luck stopped bothering him, with the improvements of Imola, Alonso He has been able to add 3 consecutive races. Wants to do it again in Silverstonewhere the car should go better than in Austria.
Fernando Alonso, in the Austria GP
Sainz, to analyze Williams
Carlos Sainz He had problems in his car again, this time, before starting, which forced him to leave before taking the exit. The Madrid had some setback with the system that activates the rear braking, something that binds to the brake setbacks that already harmed him in classification, or the motor problems and brakes he had in Canada. Williams You must analyze what happens to your two cars, since Albon He also retired for some failure in his car. Too many mechanical failures in Grove monoplays, which must improve so that Sainz can squeeze the speed of the car to add points in the remaining appointments.
