The Austrian Grand Prix was set to be a challenging race for Mercedes given the circuit characteristics and thus, Ferrari may find a brief glimmer of hope with pole position secured by Charles Leclerc. Unfortunately, Sebastian Vettel had trouble with his Ferrari in qualifying and started ninth behind the Mercedes duo of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas. As it turned out, Leclerc and Vettel were marking the wrong car this weekend as Max Verstappen, powered by a Honda engine and a biomass of orange-shirted Dutch fans, took his Red Bull car to the top of the podium and won the home race for his Austrian racing team. At least that’s how the race ended but in the process of taking his win,...
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