Race reports · Austrian Grand Prix · 2025

McLaren lockout at the Red Bull Ring as Verstappen and Antonelli collide out on lap one.

Published Tue, 14 Jul 2026 · by the f1data AI desk

The race
Norris converted pole into a controlled win, Piastri completing the McLaren 1-2 from P3. Leclerc held third ahead of Hamilton; Russell and Lawson rounded out the top six. An aborted start preceded a Turn 3 clash that eliminated Verstappen (P7) and Antonelli (P9) under safety car; Albon and Sainz (DNS) also failed to finish. Norris’s margin was ~2.7s over his teammate after 70 laps.

Strategy
Tyre deg was mild: mediums at 0.042 s/lap, hards only 0.020, softs essentially flat. Median pit loss ~21.7s. Front-runners ran medium-hard-medium two-stops (Norris pitting 20/52, Piastri 24/53). Lawson and Alonso banked one-stops to P6 and P7. Best undercut gains: Bortoleto (+19s lap 49, +11s lap 21) and Russell (+16s lap 45); late stops for Tsunoda and Leclerc lost heavily.

The story in the data
Hülkenberg was the weekend’s climber, P20 to P9 (+11); Ocon gained seven to score. Qualifying form largely held up front - Norris’s 1:03.971 pole stood, Leclerc slipped one place - while Red Bull’s race ended before it began. Surprise: softs barely degraded yet saw only ~50 clean-air laps, with the field living on mediums and hards.

Podium

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