Formula1 championship leader Max33Verstappen beat his battling Ferrari rivals to win a Saturday sprint race and put Red Bull on pole position for Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix at his team’s home track.
Formula 1 championship leader Max Verstappen beat his battling Ferrari rivals to win a Saturday sprint race and put Red Bull on pole position for Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix at his team’s home track.
“The car is good. Just a few things to fine tune but overall we’ve been really competitive again this weekend,” added the 24-year-old, who took the chequered flag 1.675 seconds clear of Leclerc.and his army of Dutch fans let off flares to send clouds of orange smoke billowing from the stands before and after the 23-lap race.
Verstappen had been on the receiving end of boos and the wrong sort of cheers at Silverstone, Hamilton’s home race, last weekend.Red Bull’s championship leader was booed when he qualified on the front row and cheered when he slowed in the race, a puncture and car damage dropping him from the lead to seventh.
Alpine’s Esteban Ocon was sixth, the Frenchman stopping on track after the chequered flag, with Kevin Magnussen seventh for Haas.Australia’s Daniel Ricciardo finished 11th.Ocon’s teammate and twice world champion Fernando Alonso failed to start the sprint after his car remained jacked up on the grid with tyre blankets still on.
The field did a second formation lap after Alfa Romeo’s Chinese rookie Guanyu Zhou stopped, sending him to the pit lane from where he fought back to 14th. Hamilton started ninth but made contact with Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri on the opening lap, dropping to 11th. The Briton then battled back but had a tough and lively battle with Mick Schumacher for eighth.
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