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Mercedes' George Russell has won the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring. Despite starting from pole, Russell had a tough day in the office with Verstappen posing a major challenge, surely helped by Red Bull's car updates. Kimi Antonelli finished a very close third.
Agreed, had they stopped earlier it's likely Antonelli would have overtaken Verstappen.mzso wrote: ↑28 Jun 2026, 17:12I don't think they could have made it with the grid position. This is pretty much as close as they could get.Unc1eM0nty wrote: ↑28 Jun 2026, 17:09Max should have won today, they should have gone for the undercut when they had the chance
Both Ferraris struggled for pace on the hardest compound today but on the medium compound were at least competitive even with a straight line deficit. They'd have been better doing medium, medium, soft but didn't have the tyres for that option. Would have thrown a Ferrari in to the mix at the front later in the race where the hards condemned the red cars to fight for mid places.
Might have if Max had been able to get by Lewis quickly in the early stages - he certainly lost time to George playing around with Lewis. Ironically, Lewis helped George today...mzso wrote: ↑28 Jun 2026, 17:12I don't think they could have made it with the grid position. This is pretty much as close as they could get.Unc1eM0nty wrote: ↑28 Jun 2026, 17:09Max should have won today, they should have gone for the undercut when they had the chance
Verstappen's hards only dropped ~half a second over the final stint, so degredation wasn't really much of an issue. It only looked like that because Antonelli was closing in.
He wasn't getting any closer to Russel for the last several laps with a tire age adventage and Antonelli closed in on him. With mediums he would have been dead in the water even earlier, an easy target for Antonelli.search wrote: ↑28 Jun 2026, 18:18Verstappen's hards only dropped ~half a second over the final stint, so degredation wasn't really much of an issue. It only looked like that because Antonelli was closing in.
No idea if he would have won on the mediums, of course, but if you decide to go for a late sprint from behind, imo it should be on the tires you at least have a chance on to fly by. If you lose 2nd as a result, who really cares.
He was closing on Russell the entire final stint, just ran out of laps, so did Kimi.mzso wrote: ↑28 Jun 2026, 19:53He wasn't getting any closer to Russel for the last several laps with a tire age adventage and Antonelli closed in on him. With mediums he would have been dead in the water even earlier, an easy target for Antonelli.search wrote: ↑28 Jun 2026, 18:18Verstappen's hards only dropped ~half a second over the final stint, so degredation wasn't really much of an issue. It only looked like that because Antonelli was closing in.
No idea if he would have won on the mediums, of course, but if you decide to go for a late sprint from behind, imo it should be on the tires you at least have a chance on to fly by. If you lose 2nd as a result, who really cares.