{"id":766411,"date":"2026-06-28T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766411\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T20:58:09","slug":"f1-austrian-grand-prix-mclaren-boss-refuses-to-shut-down-oscar-piastri-rumour-max-verstappen-bounces-back-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766411\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Austrian Grand Prix: McLaren boss refuses to shut down Oscar Piastri rumour, Max Verstappen bounces back, results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen showed glimpses of the Red Bull rocketship of old as he challenged for the win at the Austrian Grand Prix to suggest he could stay at the team despite rumours his future lies elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>George Russell won from pole position to claim his first victory since the season opener in Melbourne, with Verstappen finishing second after starting fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Sports, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every practice, qualifying session and race in the 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship\u2122 LIVE in 4K. New to Kayo? <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/?extcamp=ncaeditoriallink-ptr-nca-lnk-awr-acq-var-kyo&amp;channel=nca&amp;campaign=editorial\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Championship leader Kimi Antonelli was third and leads by 40 points after his Mercedes teammate\u2019s victory at the Red Bull Ring.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Oscar Piastri drove an excellent race to jump from seventh to fourth, but McLaren still look a fraction off the pace this season. <\/p>\n<p>With speculation continuing to swirl around Verstappen\u2019s future after a poor start to the season, McLaren boss Zak Brown gave a cryptic response when asked if he would entertain welcoming Verstappen to the papaya team. <\/p>\n<p>Recap the Austrian Grand Prix below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen showed glimpses of the Red Bull rocketship of old as he challenged for the win at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,277557,85],"class_list":["post-766411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ncaeditorialkayoprogram","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}