Officials could have engraved the Austrian GP trophy in advance, so comfortable was Max Verstappen's win, but behind him saw the grid jumbled up again and a morass of track limit penalties, as Mark Hughes examines
The Austrian Grand Prix official results look quite different to the order across the line thanks to an unprecedented number of track limit penalties. But thankfully they didn't alter the podium places, with Max Verstappen reeling off his seventh victory from nine races and going ahead of Ayrton Senna's career tally into the bargain. He was challenged through the first few corners by Charles Leclerc but was over 24sec ahead of the Ferrari three laps from the end, enough to give him the luxury of pitting for a new set of soft tyres with which to take the fastest lap and the extra point which goes with it.
Sergio Perez's multiple track limits infringements in qualifying on the Friday had left him starting 15th but his underlying pace was good and he was able to deliver a sparkling recovery drive to third, his late attack on Carlos Sainz's Ferrari particularly entertaining, though probably more difficult than it should have been given that he consistently failed to use the DRS detection point to his advantage at Turn 3. He had to make the pass the hard way instead...
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