George Russell took victory<\/a> from pole position ahead an enormously quick Max Verstappen, whose Red Bull had made great strides with upgrades the team brought to Austria. Hamilton had moved to second in the championship after the last round and was looking so competitive that he was being touted as a potential title contender, but he has dropped back to third, behind Russell and his teammate Kimi Antonelli, the championship leader.<\/p>\nSpeaking after his car had suffered from a lack of pace, high tyre degradation and overheating as the team adopted a three-stop strategy that did not pay off, he conceded there was still much they had to learn about how to maximise performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s more of a reality check,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know why we were so competitive on Sunday in Barcelona. That\u2019s a very strong track for me, I chose a strategy that from experience I knew would work, with the deg[radation] that we had, it was like 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen today we were hit more with reality, which is we do still have a good car but we are down compared to Mercedes just on pace. They just are quicker and we have to keep developing.<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton and George Russell before the race. The Mercedes man put the Ferrari driver in the shade. Photograph: Mark Sutton\/Formula 1\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t close that gap [but] that one win doesn\u2019t mean we are going to be beating them all the time, it\u2019s the opposite, we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do. We still have to just continue to add performance to the car, particularly power is where we\u2019re going to keep working.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamilton, who started third on the grid, did enjoy a spirited fight with Verstappen in the early stages, which the Dutchman at one point suggested should have earned his rival a penalty, when the British driver squeezed him wide at turn six. The stewards judged the racing had been fair.<\/p>\n
Quick GuideAustrian F1 GP results and standingsShow<\/p>\n
1 George\u00a0Russell Mercedes 1hr 26min 37.979sec \u2013 25pts
2 Max\u00a0Verstappen Red Bull\u00a0+1.611sec \u2013 18pts
3 Kimi\u00a0Antonelli Mercedes +1.986 \u2013 15pts
4 Oscar\u00a0Piastri McLaren\u00a0+21.809 \u2013 12pts
5 Lewis\u00a0Hamilton Ferrari \u00a0+26.393 \u2013 10pts
6 Isack\u00a0Hadjar Red Bull +29.399 \u2013 8pts
7 Lando\u00a0Norris McLaren +31.505 \u2013 6pts
8 Charles\u00a0Leclerc Ferrari \u00a0+45.659 \u2013 4pts
9 Liam\u00a0Lawson Racing Bulls +1 lap \u2013 2pts
10 Arvid\u00a0Lindblad Racing Bulls\u00a0+1 lap \u2013 1pt
11 Gabriel\u00a0Bortoleto Audi +1 lap
12 Nico\u00a0H\u00fclkenberg Audi +1 lap
13 Pierre\u00a0Gasly Alpine +1 lap
14 Oliver\u00a0Bearman Haas\u00a0+1 lap
15 Franco\u00a0Colapinto Alpine\u00a0+1 lap
16 Esteban\u00a0Ocon Haas +2 laps
17 Alexander\u00a0Albon Williams\u00a0+2 laps
18\u00a0Fernando\u00a0Alonso Aston Martin +3 laps
NC Lance\u00a0Stroll Aston Martin DNF
NC Carlos\u00a0Sainz Williams DNF
NC Sergio\u00a0P\u00e9rez Cadillac DNF
NC Valtteri\u00a0Bottas Cadillac DNF<\/p>\n
Drivers’ standings
1 Antonelli 171pts
2 Russell 131
3\u00a0Hamilton 125
4 Piastri 80
5 Leclerc 79
6 Norris 79
7 Verstappen 73
8 Hadjar 42
9\u00a0Gasly 41
10 Lawson 30<\/p>\n
Constructors’ standings
1 Mercedes 302pts
2 Ferrari 204
3 McLaren 159
4 Red Bull 115
5 Alpine 57
6 Racing Bulls 44
7 Haas 21
8 Williams 11
9 Audi 2
10 Aston Martin 1
11 Cadillac 0<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt was great, it was a good run, good fun,\u201d Hamilton said of their duel. \u201cHe went off the outside. You don\u2019t expect to go around the outside of a champion. I wouldn\u2019t expect to go around the outside of him there and hold the line. He was behind at the apex and therefore he should have backed out but he didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ferrari<\/a> team principal, Fred Vasseur, said the team had much to learn from a chastening run in Austria, where Charles Leclerc could manage only eighth after starting second on the grid. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have the pace to fight with the Mercedes and Max and we overpushed the first couple of laps,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had to change the strategy and everything went in the wrong direction but it\u2019s a good lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton said Ferrari\u2019s underwhelming performance at the Austrian Grand Prix represented a reality check for him and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-767426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}