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Nate SaundersJun 29, 2025, 10:46 AM ET
Lando Norris claimed a important triumph astatine the Austrian Grand Prix aft overcoming teammate and rubric rival Oscar Piastri successful a thrilling on-track duel.
Norris held Piastri astatine bay successful a thrilling 20-lap duel successful the opening stint of the contention and past weathered precocious unit to assertion his 3rd triumph of the season.
It came 2 weeks connected from his collision with Piastri astatine the Canadian Grand Prix and chopped the Australian's rubric pb from 22 to 15 points.
"Well done everyone, beauteous one-two," Norris said connected the vigor aft taking the chequered flag. He added successful his post-race interview: We had a large battle, that's for sure. It was a batch of fun. For me, a batch of stress! But a bully battle.
"Well done to Oscar. Hopefully it was a bully 1 for everyone to watch. But it was tough, particularly erstwhile helium was successful the DRS."
Reigning champion Max Verstappen's already slim rubric hopes took a perchance decisive stroke erstwhile helium was speared disconnected the road by Kimi Antonelli connected Lap 1, though McLaren was successful a people of its ain each weekend.
Norris and Piastri rapidly dropped the Ferrari drivers astatine the commencement and ran enactment astern for the opening portion of the race.
Piastri concisely got up for a heartbeat, diving down the wrong astatine Turn 3, lone for Norris to reclaim the wrong enactment and powerfulness past astatine the adjacent corner.
Championship person Piastri past astir drove into the backmost of Norris connected thigh 20 portion lunging for presumption earlier pit-stops gave the Englishman the breathing country helium needed to bring the car home.
"Sorry for the determination successful Turn 4," Piastri said aft finishing. "My bad".
The contention appeared to cement 2025 arsenic a two-horse race, with Verstappen not finishing and Montreal victor George Russell finishing a distant fifth.
Charles Leclerc claimed a podium for Ferrari, though finished 17 seconds down 2nd place, with Hamilton fourth.
Liam Lawson, ousted arsenic Verstappen's teammate aft conscionable 2 races this season, took a superb sixth presumption for Racing Bulls with a superbly executed one-stop strategy.
Tsunoda, who replaced Lawson, finished past successful yet different horrible show successful the troublesome Red Bull.
Fernando Alonso took eighth for Aston Martin connected a akin strategy to Lawson, holding disconnected protege Gabriel Bortoleto successful a amusive duel successful the closing laps.
Bortoleto had to settee for eighth, the archetypal points of the reigning Formula 2 champion's rookie season, portion Sauber teammate Nico Hülkenberg continued the team's beardown caller tally by finishing successful ninth. It marked the archetypal clip Sauber had finished with some cars successful the top-10 since 2018.
Haas' Esteban Ocon took the last points-paying presumption successful 10th.
Williams endured a rotten contention - Carlos Sainz failed to start, with his brakes catching occurrence astatine the opening of the enactment lap, an incidental which delayed the commencement of the contention by 15 minutes.
Sainz's teammate Alex Albon retired successful the pit-lane aboriginal successful the race.
