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2024 Austrian Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️

ROUND 11: 🇦🇹 Austria

FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX 2024

Circuit stats

First Grand Prix: 1970
Number of laps: 71
Circuit Length: 4.318 km
Race Distance: 306.452 km
Lap record: 1:05.619 Carlos Sainz (2020)
2023 winner: Max Verstappen

Track Map

45 comments

This friendship is officially tested.
- They should stream tonight, for the drama.
- Could be a spicy rest of the season
  
  Almost certainly
- I'm guessing Lando is flying home on British Airways tonight.
did they just gift Russell a win???
That was fun. If you like double moves, moves under braking, track limit violations, etc
Great race imo. Bummer the fight at the front ended in trouble like that, but it was very exciting!
Toto on the radio lmao
Well the stewards won't be deciding one and two now.
Well Oscar, will you take the gift Lando died for?

Edit- short vsc boooo
I think I'm just gonna take a nap. Wake me up when someone calls a safety car.
- I hope you woke up for the last stint
  
  I actually walked to the supermarket to get some chips and stuff and when I returned the gap was 0.5.
- 3 stopper yet somehow nothing happening on track
  
  Well that just took a really sharp turn
  
  Feel like Leclerc and Alonso both did 5 stops for some reason.
WTF is going in

Russell win?
Verstappen 10s penalty is not enough for costing lando the race that he would have won
- Lando still had that 5 second penalty for track limits, he might have got around max but who knows if he could’ve built a 5 second gap in like 5-6 laps
  
  Max also had a potential penalty pending for not giving the position back that he gained off the track. At least Jolyon Palmer thought so
  
  It’s absolutely insane to me that they penalised a driver for locking up and handing the position back. What’s the point of racing?
  
  Now he has a grid penalty instead (I think)
Piastri is doing great! Really showing his skill!
Man, I really would have liked to see how that battle between verstappen and Norris turned out on track. Max is defending too aggressive. But even if Lando would have come through, he would have had to make up his track limits penalty. This is really disappointing.
- I agree. I am a Max fan but not when he drives like this. I really hoped the “old” Max was a thing of the past but it seems he pops back up under extreme pressure.
  
  Nah, Max never matured. He just stopped being challenged. If he’s challenged, he reverts to full asshole. “I win or we crash.”
Death, taxes and Norris fucking up the start...
- He is still learning how to start from the front.
What happened to Red Bull pit crew

Max with a 6+ sec pitstop

Perez with a 8+ sec pitstop
- Unlucky for max that a bolt wouldn't fasten and then Norris was there so he couldn't drive off.
  
  Perez had a 5s penalty so 8s is decent considering.
The Hans Zimmer anthem was a banger!
Go get him Lando.
Love the drama between Gasly and Ocon. Glad to see some fighting on track too!
What. An. Ending.
Hamilton with a rookie mistake.

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