Lando Norris claimed an important victory on the Austrian Grand Prix after overcoming teammate and title rival Oscar Piastri in an exhilarating on-track duel.
Norris held Piastri at bay in a 20-lap duel within the opening stint of the race after which weathered late strain to assert his third win of the season.
It got here two weeks on from his collision with Piastri on the Canadian Grand Prix and minimize the Australian’s title lead from 22 to fifteen factors.
“Effectively finished everybody, stunning one-two,” Norris stated on the radio after taking the checkered flag. He added in his postrace interview: “We had an important battle, that is for certain. It was lots of enjoyable. For me, lots of stress! However a pleasant battle.
“Effectively finished to Oscar. Hopefully it was a pleasant one for everybody to look at. But it surely was robust, particularly when he was within the DRS.”
Reigning champion Max Verstappen’s already slim title hopes took a doubtlessly decisive blow when he was speared off the highway by Kimi Antonelli on Lap 1, though McLaren was in a category of its personal all weekend.
Norris and Piastri shortly dropped the Ferrari drivers at the beginning and ran line astern for the opening a part of the race.
Piastri briefly acquired forward for a heartbeat, diving down the within at Flip 3, just for Norris to reclaim the within line and energy previous on the subsequent nook.
Championship chief Piastri then almost drove into the again of Norris on lap 20 whereas lunging for place earlier than pit-stops gave the Englishman the respiratory room he wanted to convey the automotive house.
“Sorry for the transfer in Flip 4,” Piastri stated after ending. “My unhealthy”.
The race appeared to cement 2025 as a two-horse race, with Verstappen not ending and Montreal winner George Russell ending a distant fifth.
Charles Leclerc claimed a podium for Ferrari, though completed 17 seconds behind second place, with Hamilton fourth.
Liam Lawson, ousted as Verstappen’s teammate after simply two races this season, took an excellent sixth place for Racing Bulls with a perfectly executed one-stop technique.
Tsunoda, who changed Lawson, completed final in one more horrible efficiency within the troublesome Pink Bull.
Fernando Alonso took eighth for Aston Martin on the same technique to Lawson, holding off protege Gabriel Bortoleto in a enjoyable duel within the closing laps.
Bortoleto needed to accept eighth, the primary factors of the reigning Components 2 champion’s rookie season, whereas Sauber teammate Nico Hülkenberg continued the workforce’s sturdy latest run by ending in ninth. It marked the primary time Sauber had completed with each vehicles within the top-10 since 2018.
Haas’ Esteban Ocon took the ultimate points-paying place in tenth.
Williams endured a rotten race – Carlos Sainz failed to begin, along with his brakes catching fireplace in the beginning of the formation lap, an incident which delayed the beginning of the race by quarter-hour.
Sainz’s teammate Alex Albon retired within the pit-lane later within the race.