Formula 1 2023 Austrian Grand Prix results

McLaren recently ran a trio of tribute liveries at the Indianapolis 500 to commemorate its unique Triple Crown successes. These were combined into a single look for Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, who ran the revised livery in Monaco and Spain.
Continuing its celebration, McLaren has revealed a return to the ‘fan-favourite’ chrome look that featured between 2006-2014, and was run by Lewis ...

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Verstappen was 24 seconds clear of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc in the closing stages of the Red Bull Ring race, which was just more than the time lost by pitting for fresh tyres. 
But despite the close margins and the risk of losing the lead if the stop went wrong, Red Bull elected to pit the world champion for softs so he could snatch the fastest lap point on the run to the chequered ...

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On track, the 2023 edition of the Austrian Grand Prix offered plenty of wheel-to-wheel action, arguably yielding one of the more exciting Formula 1 races of the year.
But many of its biggest talking points were off it, and quite literally too, as a track limits storm raged during and after the race at the Red Bull Ring.
The result itself was familiar, as Max Verstappen streaked to his ...

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Formula Regional driver van 't Hoff was killed on Saturday on the final lap of the race after spinning on the Kemmel straight in heavy rain and being hit by a following car as he was unsighted due to severe spray.
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Motorsport.com revealed over the Austrian Grand Prix weekend that concerns have emerged about the danger of F1 making a misstep with the rules if it does not perfectly marry the chassis regulations to planned all-new engines.
With there being an equal 50/50 split between internal combustion engine power and electrical power, concerns have emerged about drivers running out of battery power ...

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Race control was tasked with reviewing more than 1200 instances of cars having reportedly exceeded track limits - all of which came through Turns 9 and 10 at the Red Bull Ring - by running over the painted white lines that denote the edge of the circuit with all four tyres.
For a 71-lap race, that works out as an average of 17 potential incidents per tour or 60 possible infringements for each ...

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McLaren finally introduced its first true performance upgrade of the 2023 season on Norris' car last weekend, which allowed him to qualify in the top four for both Saturday's sprint and Sunday's grand prix.
While McLaren benefitted from both Mercedes and Aston Martin having an off-weekend, Norris still produced a spirited drive to fifth, which became fourth after an additional track limits ...

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Ferrari brought another incremental upgrade to the Red Bull Ring with a revised floor and front wing.
The update was designed not only to add aerodynamic load but also make the SF23 more benign and increase its operating window after struggling for tyre wear and race pace inconsistency on high-downforce circuits like Barcelona.
Initially the upgrade seemed to work as planned as Leclerc, who ...

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After introducing a raft of upgrades in Monaco, Mercedes seemed to be on an upward trajectory with a double podium in the Spanish Grand Prix and another podium place for Hamilton in Canada.
But two weeks on Mercedes took an alarming step back in Austria, with Hamilton and team-mate George Russell finishing eighth and seventh respectively.
Hamilton said the Brackley team's Red Bull Ring woes ...

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However, that recommendation, which was made immediately after the 2022 Austrian Grand Prix, was rejected by circuit bosses who elected instead to keep the same configuration of kerbs and run off. 
As F1 chiefs begin an investigation into the near-farce at the Austrian GP where more than 1200 tracks limits offences left the result of the race hanging in the air until late at night as ...

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Max Verstappen dominated the Red Bull Ring race to win over Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and team-mate Sergio Perez, but the provisional result was soon plunged into doubt.
Aston Martin launched a protest in relation to incidents of breaches of track limits – predominately at Turns 9 and 10 – not being correctly identified and penalised.
The FIA then revealed that it had been unable to ...

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Verstappen dominated the race, although Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc did lead for a few laps during the pitstop cycle, on his way to finishing second, ahead of Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, who drove from 15th to third after his disastrous qualifying.
UPDATE: After the race, Aston Martin Racing protested the results and the FIA issued a new classification with extra penalties for drivers who had ...

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Aston Martin lodged its appeal against the provisional race classification after claiming that a number of cars were not penalised for potentially having breached track limits repeatedly.
The FIA has since revealed it was unable to review all reports of cars having strayed beyond the painted white lines with all four wheels during the race since there were over 1200 cases during the 71 ...

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The result of the 71-lap race remains provisional as of Sunday evening following a protest from Aston Martin concerning how breaches of track limits were punished.
Of the 20 drivers, only Mercedes racer George Russell and Aston Martin's own Fernando Alonso escaped without at least one incident of a track limits violation - the vast majority of which occurred through the high-speed right-handers ...

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Lewis Hamilton led team-mate George Russell for a 7-8 result at the Red Bull Ring. Seven-time champion Hamilton finished 39 seconds behind runaway victor Max Verstappen, who might have crossed the line a further 20s ahead had he not made a late pitstop to successfully take the bonus point for fastest lap away from Red Bull stablemate Sergio Perez.
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As the track limits saga continued to dominate the Austrian event, eight drivers received track limit penalties, including Hamilton, and the issue is central to a post-race protest launched by Aston Martin.
While Hamilton did get hit with a five-second penalty for exceeding track limits at Turn 10, Norris felt he was due to gain further penalties due to continued transgressions when chasing the ...

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The Spaniard equalled his best result of the season with fourth place at the Red Bull Ring while his team-mate Charles Leclerc finished runner-up to dominant victor Max Verstappen.
Sainz had pressured Leclerc for second during the opening stint, but it was agreed that the Ferrari duo would not fight for position.
This pre-race order would come to leave Sainz vulnerable during an early ...

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The Silverstone team took a double points finish at the Red Bull Ring, with Fernando Alonso finishing sixth and Lance Stroll rounding out the top 10.
The team initially refused to disclose what the grounds for its protest were, but the FIA soon confirmed that Aston took issue with the manner in which the stewards applied track limits penalties.
"A protest has been lodged by Aston Martin ...

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Leclerc scored only the second podium of the season for the Scuderia as he claimed second place at the Red Bull Ring. The Monegasque also finished third in round four in Azerbaijan.
He enjoyed a 10-lap spell in the lead by undercutting dominant race winner Max Verstappen during an early virtual safety car but was repassed and fell 24 seconds behind the lead Red Bull. That gap fell to 5s at ...

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Perez missed the Thursday media day to rest after falling sick on Wednesday night.
He then underperformed during the Friday qualifying session for the full grand prix by exceeding track limits through the final two corners to have three lap times deleted for a Q2 exit.
But after finishing second in the sprint race, Perez then climbed from 15th to complete the Red Bull Ring podium on Sunday ...

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Verstappen nailed the start to head off Leclerc's run to the inside for the first corner and then dropped him again following an early safety car needed to clear debris from contact between cars back in the pack at Turn 1.
The early phase was Verstappen simply driving clear of Leclerc and Sainz, who was initially told he had to sit behind his team-mate and not attack, a call he got frustrated ...

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McLaren had hoped to get the stewards to look once again at the decision to penalise Norris for "unsportsmanlike behaviour" after he backed off to create a gap between himself and team-mate Oscar Piastri ahead of a double stack stop at Montreal.
For the right of review to go ahead under the FIA's International Sporting Code, McLaren had needed to submit a "significant, new and relevant" piece ...

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Russell's admission came during an off-beat weekend in Austria, in which he was knocked out of Q2 in 11th by Williams man Alex Albon.
"Things just aren't really clicking at the moment my end," Russell admitted bluntly.
"At the start of the season I felt a lot more confident, and I was able to put the car on the limit. Now I'm struggling generally and have taken a step backwards compared to ...

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Unusually the latest move follows soon after a four-year extension from 2024 to 2027 that was announced as recently as March.
The extended contract, signed with Red Bull subsidiary and race promoter Projekt Spielberg, reflects the drinks company's ongoing commitment to F1 after the death of founder and figurehead Dietrich Mateschitz last year. It also takes the race deal well into the ...

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Magnussen and de Vries were set to start 19th and 20th on the grid respectively, so both their teams elected to breach parc ferme rules and make changes to the cars with a minimal penalty.
In Magnussen's case, Haas opted to tweak the set-up of his VF-23 car.
De Vries' changes are much bigger in scope, with AlphaTauri changing the Dutchman's rear wing and beam wing to a previous specification ...

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The sun finally burst through the clouds overlooking the Red Bull Ring on Saturday evening – three hours after the Austrian Grand Prix sprint race had concluded. Rain and low-hanging, misty clouds had otherwise prevailed on a day of glory, reflected tragedy and controversy in the Styrian mountains. 
The glory belonged to Max Verstappen and Red Bull – the combination also having a ...

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The McLaren driver had headed into Saturday’s sprint as Red Bull’s potential main challenger after qualifying third behind Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez. But it all went wrong at Turn 3, as an opportunity to pounce on his Red Bull rivals nearly tripping over themselves evaporated when his car went into anti-stall and delayed him.
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Van 't Hoff, an 18-year-old talent racing for Dutch team MP Motorsport, was killed when he crashed on the Kemmel straight in heavy rain and was then hit laterally by a competitor, who was unable to see van 't Hoff's car due to the enormous amount of spray on the straight following the fearsome Raidillon corner.
Four years on from Anthoine Hubert's fatal accident at the 2019 F2 round at Spa, the ...

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Toto Wolff did, however, call Verstappen's driving at Turn 1, after the Red Bull driver had been held up by Hamilton at the final corner with just 12 seconds remaining in Q1, a "revenge foul".  
Verstappen in turn expressed his annoyance at Hamilton's driving in the incident and then claimed the second part of what happened was simply "a bit of a shame". 
What happened in sprint ...

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Leclerc started ninth in Saturday's 24-lap sprint, which commenced in intermediate conditions but ended on a drying track.
Amid a split between drivers who stayed out on inters and those who came in for slicks, Leclerc was in the latter camp but admitted he was "completely off the pace" with slicks in damp conditions.
The Monegasque dropped out of the top 10 to 12th at the finish, 50 seconds ...

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Horner has voiced worries in both F1 Commission and team principal meetings that grand prix racing's chiefs need to be careful about how the 2026 rules package comes together, as there is a risk of them unleashing 'Frankenstein' cars if they get it wrong.
He suggests that with the combustion engine and battery configuration leaving open the door for power units to rapidly run out of electric ...

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Max Verstappen will start Red Bull's home race from pole position after topping qualifying for the fourth successive occasion. 
Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz will line up second and third on the grid in their SF-23s, with Lando Norris next up in fourth for McLaren. 
Verstappen's team-mate Sergio Perez failed to make it into Q3 and yet again will take the start from ...

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The Red Bull duo of Verstappen and Sergio Perez swapped the lead on the opening lap with some robust driving between the team-mates, each blaming the other.
But Verstappen got clear as Perez got trapped behind Nico Hulkenberg’s Haas for a dozen laps, and motored away to another dominant victory, with all the action happening behind as the track dried and some switched to slicks.
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Having qualified fifth for Sunday’s grand prix, Hamilton endured a disastrous shootout session on Saturday ahead of the sprint, losing his best time in Q1 to track limits and then getting caught up with Max Verstappen on what would have been his last flying lap.
That left him 18th on the grid, and after a fraught race in the midfield that included a charge after a stop for slick tyres ...

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Hulkenberg holds the record for the most F1 starts (189) without a top-three finish.
Extending his run of strong one-lap performances this season, he qualified fourth for the Red Bull Ring sprint race and then gained a position through Turn 3 when third-starting Lando Norris suffered a loss of traction to trigger anti-stall aboard his McLaren MCL60.
Meanwhile, a slow-launching Max Verstappen ...

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The Canadian's impassioned call came after Dutch Formula Regional driver Dilano van 't Hoff lost his life on Saturday in an accident on a rain-soaked circuit at the top of Raidillon.
The incident involved a high-speed collision and was similar in nature to the accident that cost the life of F2 driver Anthoine Hubert at the same part of the track in 2019.
The fact that two young drivers have ...

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Unlike team-mate Oscar Piastri, Norris has benefitted this weekend from the major upgrades brought to the MCL60 for the Red Bull Ring. His car was fitted with a new floor and sidepod design.
He used the revised machine to snare fourth in the Friday qualifying session to determine the grid for the full grand prix and then went one better in the Saturday shootout to land third for the 24-lap ...

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Saturday polesitter Verstappen complained of wheelspin off the line in the slippery conditions. This delay allowed Perez to dive up the inside into the Turn 1 right-hander.
But Perez’s tight line on entry forced him wide over the painted exit kerbs, which meant he lost traction and then appeared to drift back across the circuit to the inside.
That delay under acceleration allowed ...

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There, each Red Bull driver appeared to push the other off-track and that allowed Nico Hulkenberg to play an early starring role for Haas before he had to complete a late charge on slicks as his starting intermediates faded.
At the start, Perez made a slightly better getaway compared to polesitter Verstappen and then shot to the inside alongside the pitwall as the pair raced to Turn 1.
Perez ...

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During Q1 of the Saturday morning shootout qualifying session, the Ferrari driver got in the way of his McLaren competitor in the final sequence of corners.
Piastri complained on the team radio about the matter and both drivers were summoned to see the stewards after the session.
Following a hearing, the stewards concluded that while Leclerc had not had as clear communication to warn him ...

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