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The Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull) was the winner, this Sunday, of the Austrian Grand Prix and the German Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) regained the World lead of Formula One at the end of a race where tire wear and problems mechanical were decisive.
Behind Dutch ] who won his fourth test since it is in F1 entered the Ferrari of the Finnish Kimi Raikkonen and the German Sebastian Vettel who takes the lead of the world championship after the Mercedes of the British Lewis Hamilton and the Finnish Valtteri Bottas abandoned because of mechanical problems.
Mexican pilot, Sergio "Checo & # 39; Pérez (Force Ind. Ia) eventually won seventh position so he was proud to have achieved this result.
"It was a very positive day for the team, we came out with important points of a weekend that was quite difficult before the race, from fifteenth on the grid and finish seventh is a great effort and we should be proud of this result, "he said.
The race has had different leaders, since Lewis Hamilton has already ripped out the first position of his teammate Valtteri Bottas who had to abandon the race on lap 15 because of problems with hydraulic pressure. For this reason, the release of the virtual safety car did not help much Hamilton since all his pursuers came to change tires and English had to bear the heavy degradation with which began the test
On lap 25, Hamilton came in to change tires and to the next. entry of the track it was already fourth, between the two Ferrari with Verstappen already commanding the race.
With the increase in temperature began to appear serious gum degradation problems, because of the dreaded "blistering" that deforms the tire and forces it to s'. to occupy or change it, with the disadvantage of wasting time in a race where he stopped.
Ricciardo had to change the tires for the second time on lap 39, and on the sma trazada Vettel topped Hamilton who at 53 years had to enter the pits to put other tires before the serious degradation suffered. Despite having entered right Ricciardo the English left in 63 because of a fuel pressure problem. The Australian who celebrated his 29th birthday today, ended up "celebrating" his birthday with an abandonment (at 55 years old).
In the last part of the race, despite the fact that the tires Verstappen went to the limit, the young Dutch knew how to keep the car firmly and l & # 39; led for the first time to victory in 19459003, seat of his team, and break with the tradition of Mercedes that since this grand prize returned to the calendar of F1 (in 2014) had not given a single victory.
The podium they also incorporate the two Ferrari which in the last section of the race received no indication, except that received by Raikkonen to attack Verstappen He won this year for the first time in a race, but he has three more in his career. Today was the third victory of Red Bull this course, after the two Ricciardo in China and Monaco . Despite the third position of Vettel the fact that Hamilton did not finish the race, gives the German again the direction of world, which lost last week in the French GP held by the British, who won the race.
Finally, Fernando Alonso was able to break the series of three consecutive races without scoring points. to the problems of the front drivers and their trick in overtaking, the McLaren of the Spanish could enter eighth in a race in which, out of pain, had left garage street for changing the front of your car and the MGU-K at the same time, which will free you from and another penalty next week at Silverstone .
The other Spanish, Carlos Sainz also with tire problems, could finish the race, but this time out of the points, in twelfth position. This is the second time this course, with Bahrain does not count for a student born in Madrid.
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