F1 race results: Austrian Grand Prix live coverage

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Follow along as Lando Norris hopes to keep his rivals at bay and take the win at Red Bull Ring

Lando Norris did what he needed to do on Saturday, delivering a blistering final lap during the final segment of qualifying at the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix to capture pole position.

But the job is far from done.

The McLaren driver will need to navigate 71 laps against some of the best drivers in the world to take a win at the Austrian Grand Prix, and inch closer to his teammate Oscar Piastri in the F1 Drivers’ Championship race. While Norris has been dominant all week, topping the timing sheets in every session he participated in, rivals such as Piastri, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, George Russell, and the rest of the field are not going to just hand him a much-needed win.

We’ll have every lap of the Austrian Grand Prix covered, which starts at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time. So come back throughout the race to keep up with every twist and turn!

Note: All updates are in Eastern time, or by Lap number once the race begins.

Austrian Grand Prix Notes

Lap 33: Norris remains almost six seconds ahead of Piastri, but the Australian driver was faster on the previous lap. We’ll see if he can continue to close the gap.

Lap 29: McLaren tells Piastri that his lockup at Turn 4 was “marginal,” and they do not want to see that again. The commentary box in F1TV disagrees with giving Piastri that feedback during the race, arguing that the team should trust their drivers instead.

Again, a side effect of having the fastest car and two fast drivers is managing them during a race as they fight at the front.

Lap 28: Of note from those drivers in the top six: Lawson and Alonso are the only two drivers who have not made a pit stop. As we noted before the race both Lawson and Alonso are among the drivers who had only one set of mediums and one set of hards heading into the race — with Alonso having just scrubbed sets.

Could they be trying a one-stop strategy?

Lap 27: Hamilton completes his stop, and comes out in sixth behind Leclerc. Right now the top six in the running order are: Norris, Piastri, Lawson, Leclerc, Alonso, and Hamilton.

Lap 26: Leclerc pits from the lead, and comes back out on a set of hards. Lewis Hamilton inherits the lead for a moment, but you can expect he’ll pit as well, which would give the lead back to Norris.

Lap 25: Piastri comes in, and his stop is 3.4 seconds. He comes out on a set of hards and is more than five seconds behind Norris when he rejoins the fight.

Lap 23: Piastri is still out, but it losing time to Norris who is running in fourth. But based on radio messages between him and McLaren it sounds like Piastri want to stay out longer, so he can have fresher tires at the end of the race.

Lap 21: McLaren’s stop with Norris is 3.1 seconds, and he peels out with a set of hard tires.

Piastri is asked to show his pace in free air, but he reports that he has a flat spot on his tires after locking up on the previous lap.

Lap 20: Piastri gets close to Norris at Turn 4 and locks up his fronts, and Norris then dips into pit lane at the end of the lap for his first pit stop.

Lap 18: Yuki Tsunoda tries an overtake of Lance Stroll at Turn 3 and makes the pass, but gets into Stroll along the way. That incident has been noted by race officials for a potential investigation.

Lap 17: A double retirement for Williams, as Alex Albon is now pushed back into the garage.

Lap 13: McLaren’s social media team is enjoying things:

ot sure Team Principal Andrea Stella feels the same way, however.

Lap 12: A stunning battle between Piastri and Norris on Lap 11 into Lap 12 sees the two exchange the lead, with Norris taking it back from Piastri after his teammate took it from him early in the lap. Norris is back to 0.593 seconds ahead of Piastri here on Lap 12.

Lap 10: Returning to Verstappen for a moment. His early exit means that the two points he received at last year’s Austrian Grand Prix are now removed from his FIA Super License, dropping him to nine points.

That is still three points shy of a one-race ban, but his next points will not expire until October.

Lap 9: A bit further back of the McLaren one-two is Pierre Gasly, who was up to sixth but is starting to fade a bit. He started on a set of soft tires, which might be starting to fall away from him.

Lap 7: Piastri remains within DRS range of Norris in front of him. But the game from Piastri in second and Leclerc in third is more than two seconds. So at the moment this is a Papaya show at the front.

Lap 4: The green flag is out and we are back to racing. Norris sticks the restart and is already 0.655 seconds ahead of Piastri.

Lap 3: Replays of the start show Antonelli dipping to the inside to avoid traffic in front of him at Turn 3, then locking the rears and sliding into Verstappen.

The Safety Car will come in this lap, and the McLarens will be out front on the restart.

Lap 1: The Safety Car is out as Antonelli and Verstappen both climb out of their respective cars. The two drivers have a quick word as they make their way off the track.

Lap 1: Norris holds onto the lead, but the drama is behind him. Kimi Antonelli and Max Verstappen come together, and the two have spun out. Oscar Piastri also managed to get by Charles Leclerc to take P2 at the front.

Verstappen has climbed out of his car, his day is over.

Lap 1: The Austrian Grand Prix is underway.

9:15: Formation Lap 2.0 is underway. Given the aborted start we lose one lap on the Austrian Grand Prix, which will now be 70 laps.

9:12: George Russell makes a polite request that the team make sure there is water for the mechanics, noting that “everyone is dripping.”

9:11: Fernando Alonso speculates that the temperature of his seat is “200 degrees” in a radio message to Aston Martin.

9:08: The formation lap will begin at 3:15 p.m. local time / 9:15 p.m. Eastern time.

9:05: Sainz gets to pit lane, but both his rear brakes are on fire as he stops at the end of pit lane.

9:03: Sainz gets going, but with the aborted start that means we have a ten-minute delay to the Austrian Grand Prix. This is one of the rule changes that went into effect ahead of the 2025 F1 season, after a chaotic start to last year’s São Paulo Grand Prix.

9:01: Carlos Sainz Jr. is still in his grid box, and has yet to begin his formation lap. He is reporting a problem with his FW47, and the start has been aborted by race control.

9:01: 15 drivers, including all of the top nine, are on medium tires. The other five drivers — Gasly, Hadjar, Colapinto, Bearman, and Hülkenberg — are on softs.

9:00: The formation lap is underway at Red Bull Ring.

Pre-race Notes

8:58: Just how hot is it at Red Bull Ring today? According to F1’s Live Timing, the track temperature is 50 degrees Celsius / 122 degrees Fahrenheit.

For those wondering, the hottest track temperature in F1 history came at the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix, when track temperatures reached 61 degrees Celsius / 141.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

8:52: Oliver Bearman speculates on F1TV that the fact Haas has one more set of hard tires than their rivals will help them given the hot conditions at Red Bull Ring.

8:47: Christian Horner on F1TV notes that it’s “so hot,” and that it’s all about “keeping the tire alive” at Red Bull Ring today.

8:43: Another note from this morning: Ferrari Team Principal Frederic Vasseur has left Red Bull Ring due to “personal reasons.” Deputy Team Principal Jerome d’Ambrosio will handle those duties today.

8:40: From Pirelli, F1’s exclusive tire supplier, here are some notes on today’s race:

As you can see from the chart of available tires a few drivers (Lance Stroll, Fernando Alonso, Pierre Gasly, Franco Colapinto, Liam Lawson, and Isack Hadjar) have just one set of hards and one set of mediums left — and for the Aston Martin duo, those are scrubbed sets to boot.

Either those drivers will try a one-stop strategy, or they’ll have to use a set of soft tires at some point.

8:38: As a reminder, here is the starting grid for today’s Austrian Grand Prix:

8:28: Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, wherever you are joining us from.

All the chatter on F1TV this morning is about the rising temperatures at Red Bull Ring, and how this likely locks in a two-stop race.

That also is a bit of unwelcome news at Mercedes, as the Silver Arrows have struggled in warmer weather these past two seasons.