| 2019 Austrian Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 9 of 21 in the2019 Formula One World Championship
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 Layout of the Red Bull Ring | |||||
| Race details[1] | |||||
| Date | 30 June 2019 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1myWorldGrosser Preis von Österreich 2019 | ||||
| Location | Red Bull Ring Spielberg,Styria, Austria | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 4.318 km (2.683 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 71 laps, 306.452 km (190.420 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Sunny, 36C (97F) | ||||
| Attendance | 203,000[2] | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||||
| Time | 1:03.003 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-Honda | |||
| Time | 1:07.475 on lap 60 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Red Bull Racing-Honda | ||||
| Second | Ferrari | ||||
| Third | Mercedes | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The2019 Austrian Grand Prix (formally known as theFormula 1 myWorld Großer Preis von Österreich 2019) was aFormula Onemotor race held on 30 June 2019 at theRed Bull Ring inSpielberg,Austria. The race was the ninth round of the2019 Formula One World Championship. The race marked the 33rd running of theAustrian Grand Prix and the 32nd time it had been held as a round of the Formula One World Championship since the series inception in1950.[1] The victory ofMax Verstappen in theRed Bull Racing RB15 was the first win for aHonda-powered F1 car sinceJenson Button in the2006 Hungarian Grand Prix and he also became the first non-Mercedes driver to win a race in 2019. The race marked the first time that Red Bull made it back-to-back wins at their home Grand Prix.
Heading into the raceLewis Hamilton had a 36-point advantage over teammateValtteri Bottas in the Drivers' Championship. In the Constructors' ChampionshipMercedes held a 140-point advantage overFerrari.[3]
The drivers and teams entered were the same as those on the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for either the race or practice.[4]
Prior to the start of the weekendCarlos Sainz Jr. andAlexander Albon exceeded their quotas for power unit components and were required to start from the back of the grid.[5][6]Nico Hülkenberg andKevin Magnussen received five-place grid penalties for exceeding their quota for power unit components and for a gearbox change, respectively.[7]
Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time in first practice withSebastian Vettel second.Valtteri Bottas was third ahead ofFerrari’sCharles Leclerc in fourth.[8] Second practice was eventful as Vettel spun and both Bottas andMax Verstappen crashed. Leclerc was fastest ahead of Bottas,Pierre Gasly and Hamilton.[9] In third practice Leclerc was fastest again ahead of Hamilton, Bottas and Vettel.[10]
WhilstCharles Leclerc started the race well from pole position,Max Verstappen encountered an issue with hisanti-stall, dropping from second down to eighth place by turn 2.Lando Norris briefly battledLewis Hamilton for third place, andKimi Räikkönen ran as high as fourth. Räikkönen held the position until lap 7, when he was passed bySebastian Vettel, who had started ninth. By lap 9, Verstappen had recovered after his poor start, passing Räikkönen and Norris.Kevin Magnussen pitted on lap 12, dropping him to the back, but was handed a drive-through penalty soon afterwards after the stewards found he had over-stepped his grid line at the beginning of the race and started too far forward. He would only recover one place during the race, and eventually crossed the finish line in nineteenth.
Valtteri Bottas andSebastian Vettel pitted on lap 22, with Bottas emerging in clear air in fourth, but with Vettel stuck behind Norris, Räikkönen andPierre Gasly in eighth after a communication issue saw his pit-stop take longer than expected. Leclerc pitted on the following lap, handing the lead of the race to Hamilton. At this stage of the race, the Mercedes cars were suffering from the high air and track temperatures. Hamilton repeatedly ran wide at turn 1, driving over the sausage kerb. This eventually caused damage to his front wing, forcing him to pit for a replacement on lap 31 and dropping him to fifth place. Verstappen inherited the lead, but pitted on the following lap; Leclerc thus regained first place.
Verstappen emerged from the pits in fourth place, and began his charge towards the front. He passed Vettel on Lap 50, on the straight after turn 2. Vettel subsequently pitted on the following lap. Verstappen then passed Bottas into turn 2 on lap 56. Finally, he caught up with Leclerc at the front, passing him into turn 2 with three laps to go. On lap 69, Verstappen took a wide line through the corner on the inside of Leclerc, making contact and resulting in Leclerc leaving the track and driving over the kerb. Verstappen held on to his lead until the chequered flag, and the stewards later deemed his overtake legal. Vettel passed Hamilton on the final lap to take fourth place.
Verstappen's victory marked the first win for aHonda-powered F1 car sinceJenson Button in the2006 Hungarian Grand Prix. The race was also the first race in the season not to be won by aMercedes driver, asValtteri Bottas finished in third andLewis Hamilton fifth.Antonio Giovinazzi scored his first ever career points in Formula One by finishing tenth place.[13] This also marked the first race in which every driver saw the chequered flag since the2016 Japanese Grand Prix.
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