Max Verstappen was born in the Netherlands but hunkered down in Austria to dominate the F1 season. he ran the fastest lap and led wire-to-wire for the second consecutive weekend at the 2.677-mile circuit.

This is Verstappen’s fifth win of the season, and the fifth consecutive win for Honda.  This hasn’t happened in F1 since Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna in 1988 when they scored seven on the trot.

Red Bull overtook Lando Norris right at the start, then dominated from then on. There was a 20 second over Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton after the first round of stops on Lap 32.

Team member Perez battled on for sixth-place. Perez was nudged off the track by Norris on the opening lap while dropping to 10th. The same thing happened later in the race,  incidents with Charles Leclerc, who left the track both times. All 3 incidents earned Perez a five-second time penalty, contributing to 6th place.

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Max Verstappen Red Bull Aston Martin
PIERRE GASLY
Pierre Gasly
Charles-Leclerc

ABOVE: Austrian F1: Max Verstappen, Pierre Gasly, Sergio Perez, Llando Norris, Charles Leclerc

Scuderia AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly qualified 6th for the fifth consecutive race while his teammate Yuki Tsunoda set a career-best F1 qualifying mark by earning a7th place start. Gasly part of a tight mid-pack to get 9th place. Tsunoda was given five-second penalties on each of his two pit stops and eventually finished 12th.

Verstappen now has a 32 point lead over Lewis Hamilton. Perez is still 3rd over all, but Pierre Gasly is now ninth.

Toyoharu Tanabe
Technical Director, Honda F1
Another perfect performance from Max, leading every lap from pole and taking the fastest lap of the race, gave him his third consecutive win and made it five in a row for Red Bull Racing Honda.

Max Verstappen – Red Bull Racing Honda
Start 1st, Finish: 1st (Fifth win of the year)
To win again at home at the Red Bull Ring is just incredible. I expected it to be good, but not this good, and the car was on rails. It was really nice to drive and the pace was incredible on both tire compounds. I could push and also look after the tires which is exactly how you want it to be and I could extend my gap lap after lap.

Sergio Perez – Red Bull Racing Honda
Start: 3rd, Finish: 6th
I’m obviously not very happy with my race today. On the fourth lap I had the position and I out-braked Lando but he pushed me off the track which pretty much ended my race. As for the other incidents with Charles, I still have to review the situations and look at the incidents because I thought that I was ahead in both of them, especially the second one but it’s hard to say right now.

Pierre Gasly – Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda
Start: 6th, Finish: 9th
“I think today was harder than we imagined, but the good thing is we’re consistently scoring points. We thought we would benefit more from the two-stop strategy, but we struggled more than expected on the Softs at the start of the race. There are some positives to take away though and we still showed some strong pace out there.  We’re continuing to battle at the top of the midfield but it’s disappointing to not be finishing further up the grid today. We’ll review all the data tonight and then look forward to Silverstone, which is a track I love.”

Yuki Tsunoda – Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda
Start: 7th,,(Career Best) Finish: 12th
“It’s been a difficult day for me. I struggled with pace during the race and tire management was really tricky..”

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