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F1: Red Bull stretches win streak, denies Ferrari’s double podium in Austrian GP

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Nina Angela Mikaela Cruz, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Dutch Formula One driver Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing in the Parc ferme after winning the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring race track in Spielberg, Austria, July 2, 2023. Christian Bruna, EPA-EFE." src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/sports/07/02/070323_f1_austrian-gp-max-verstappen_epa.jpg"/><figcaption>Dutch Formula One driver Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing in the Parc ferme after winning the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring race track in Spielberg, Austria, July 2, 2023. Christian Bruna, EPA-EFE.</figcaption></figure></div>(UPDATED) Max Verstappen extended his win streak to 5 as he took the victory at the Red Bull Ring in the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday. This was Verstappen’s 42nd career win in Formula 1.The two-time world champion maxed out the possible points for this round as he also won Saturday’s Sprint Race which gave him 8 points.Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, meanwhile, settled for P2. He briefly led the race when Verstappen pitted on Lap 25 for hard tyres. It ended Verstappen’s record of 249 consecutive race laps led. With teammate Carlos Sainz in tow, it was a potential 1-2 for Ferrari but it was short-lived as Verstappen caught up to Sainz quickly on Lap 26. He regained race leadership on Lap 35 as he overtook Leclerc. From this point on, the defending world champion enjoyed clean air as he further stretched the gap away from the P2-sitter Ferrari driver. Leclerc’s successful defense of his position has gotten him his 26th Formula 1 career podium, as well as Scuderia Ferrari’s 800th podium since their Formula 1 debut in 1950. Leclerc won last year’s Austrian GP. It was both Leclerc’s and Ferrari’s last race win. Sainz, on the other hand, got denied of the last ticket to the champagne party by Red Bull’s number 2 championship contender Sergio Perez. Sainz qualified P3 behind Verstappen on pole and Leclerc on P2. Perez qualified P15.Laps 59 through 61 saw Perez’s aggressive attempts to steal P3 from Sainz. Perez initially was forced to concede, but eventually overtook Sainz at turn 4 of Lap 62. Verstappen was still leading by a wide margin towards the last minutes of the race but with only two runs left in the 71-lap track, as his last effort to assert total domination, he pitted for soft tyres to attempt for the fastest lap record which was then recorded by his teammate. He succeeded and bagged the bonus point. He scored 26 points in this race.<div>Post-race penalties</div>The FIA handed out retrospective penalties to a total of 8 drivers due to track limit infringements. This came after Aston Martin protested the provisional race results.A note issued later from the stewards stated that after the deleted lap times were examined, it was found that “a number of track limit infringements had not previously been referred to the Stewards for potential penalty.” Some of those penalties, they said, were not applied prior to the release of the provisional classification. Alpine’s Esteban Ocon was slapped with the biggest penalty of +30 seconds. McLaren’s Nyck De Vries received an additional 15 seconds. Sainz, Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, Alpine’s Pierre Gasly, and the Williams pair of Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant all received +10-second penalties. AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda incurred the least with a 5-second penalty. The classified race results are as follows: 1. Max Verstappen 2. Charles Leclerc 3. Sergio Perez 4. Lando Norris (promoted from P5) 5. Fernando Alonso (promoted from P6) 6. Carlos Sainz (demoted from P4) 7. George Russell (promoted from P8) 8. Lewis Hamilton (demoted from P7) 9. Lance Stroll (promoted from P10) 10. Pierre Gasly (demoted from P9) 11. Alex Albon 12. Zhou Guanyu (promoted from P14) 13. Logan Sargeant 14. Esteban Ocon (demoted from P12) 15. Valtteri Bottas (promoted from P16) 16. Oscar Piastri (promoted from P17) 17. Nyck de Vries (demoted from P15) 18. ,Kevin Magnussen (promoted from P19) 19. Yuki Tsunoda (demoted from P18) Nico Hulkenberg (DNF)<div>World Drivers&#x27; Championship campaign</div>The top 10 driver standings stayed put after the penalties were applied.Verstappen is far ahead on his campaign for his third world championship with 229 points. Some 81 points behind is Perez in second place with 148. Alonso is third in the running with 131, followed by Hamilton with 106 and Sainz with 82. Last season’s second-best driver Leclerc and Mercedes’ Russell have 72 points apiece. Sitting in 8th place is Aston Martin’s Stroll with 44, followed by Alpine’s Ocon with 31 and McLaren’s Norris with 24. The British GP is up next at the famous Silverstone track slated on July 7 to 9.

Max Verstappen extended his win streak to 5 as he took the victory at the Red Bull Ring in the Austrian Grand Prix. 

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F1: Red Bull stretches win streak, denies Ferrari’s double podium in Austrian GP

Nina Angela Mikaela Cruz,

ABS-CBN News

Published Jul 03, 2023 01:17 AM PHT

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Updated Jul 03, 2023 11:42 AM PHT

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