Round 8- Styrian Race

That is now the 8th race done out of 23! It wasn’t the most excitng race I’ve seen this year but it had some good overtakes!

Max Verstappen charges to victory again with Hamilton and Bottas joining him on the podium which is a great amount of points for Mercedes for the Constructors! The rest of the top 10 are: P4- Perez, P5- Norris, P6- Sainz, P7- Leclerc, P8- Stroll, P9- Alonso and P10- Tsunoda. Hamilton also brought home an extra point for fastest lap!

There was a couple of tangles in the opening lap, it saw Gasly having to pit and retire the car after he had contact with Leclerc, the Ferrari driver managed to continue in the race after having to pit with some front wing damage.

I feel absolutely gutted for Russell, I really thought he was going to score some points, before he made his first pitstop he was running in P8 and defending from Tsunoda, however it all went downhill after his pitstop, he ended up having a power unit problem and had to retire from the race.

Ferrari clearly sorted their strategy out this weekend for Carlos Sainz, he ended up finishing P6 after starting P12, as well for his team mate, he done really well to get back up to P7 where he qualified!

I’m not to sure what happened to Ricciardo, I know he lots a few positions during the race as he had no power but to finish P13 on a track that McLaren are good at is unfortunate for them! Hopefully they can work on a few things during the week and then next week will be a different story!

Now the gap between Verstappen and Hamilton is only 18 points! The gap between Perez and Norris is only 10 points and Norris and Bottas is only 12 points! Whereas the team its now only 40 points between Red Bull and Mercedes. With Ferrari closing in on McLaren making the gap only 12 points! It will be interesting to see who comes out on top next weekend!

We are back next week at the Red Bull Ring but for the Austrian Grand Prix! Come back for the latest news throughout the week.