And you can see the issues with the tire, too. He should be rejoining behind Ricciardo — and he does.
I checked my mirrors, I couldn’t see anything.“The problem is the mirrors,” Vettel continued, “We don’t see straight back.
Hamilton didn’t manage to get into the pits under the safety car.
Raikkonen also gets back past Verstappen, but Verstappem comes right back and retakes it! A couple laps later, Brendon Hartley of Toro Rosso also retired from the race with a mechanical issue.With under 10 laps to go, Hamilton suffered a car issue and had to retire as well. Hamilton has carved a 2.5-second gap to Vettel behind him.
Full race results for the Austrian Grand Prix, the ninth round of the 2018 F1 season at the Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria. Hamilton is moving up to Raikkonen quickly, and just took half a second out of the top three on Lap 29.
They think their tires are going to be better than Verstappen’s, but the Red Bull just set a personal best.
Vettel is 1.9 seconds down of Ricciardo, who has fallen 1.2 seconds back of Raikkonen.
Verstappen, Ricciardo and Raikkonen go through, but Hamilton comes out ahead of Vettel, and that’s important for the Drivers’ Championship. Raikkonen and Verstappen overtook Valtteri Bottas between turn 1 and 2 then Bottas passed Raikkonen and Verstappen back in the braking zone of turn 3 to get P2. Hamilton was calling for a pitstop, it seemed, with some tire issues. He stops with 15 laps to go, and becomes the fourth person to retire from the race.
With three laps to go, Verstappen has 2.6 seconds on Raikkonen, while Vettel is 1.6 seconds back of his teammate. Raikkonen, 3.
Verstappen continues building his gap as Vettel gets within a second of Hamilton, who is within a second of Raikkonen. And he’s going to come into the pits.
The race was the 9th round of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship, and marked the 32nd running of the Austrian Grand Prix and the 31st time it had been held as a round of the Formula One World Championship since the series inception in 1950. And a lap later, in the run-up to Turn 4, it’s a Mercedes off the track! Octane Photographic Ltd. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. It’s unclear why. 2020 myWorld Motorrad Grand Prix von Österreich.
“I was looking in the mirror, I was finishing my lap. It seems like Vandoorne also had to stop with a lap to go. Max Verstappen took home the win at the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday, plus full results from a wild raceday! He is out of this race with what he says is a gearbox issue!
Hamilton has severe blistering on the left rear tire, and some on the right rear, too. Race control confirms no further action involving Verstappen and Raikkonen from when their tires touched briefly earlier.The virtual safety car prompts a slew of pit stops.
Hamilton complained of lacking power, while pretty much the entire grid was complaining about blistering on the tires due to the rising track temperature.Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull looked like he was going to finish on the podium, but he started experiencing those tire blisters well before the rest of the pack, and he had to go through his second pit stop early, and wound up about 20 seconds behind the top four with 20 laps to go in the race.
Ah, he’s out, just after the first turn he stops and the yellow flags are out.
Ricciardo got some heavy blistering on his rear right tyre and gets passed by Raikkonen in lap 38 again for P2.Hamilton does his pitstop in lap 26 and falls back from 1st to 4th and also gets passed in lap 39 by drivers championship rival Sebastian Vettel in the Ferrari and retires his car with a fuel pressure problem in race lap 64.Best of the rest is the Haas team from the US. Oh, it looks like Sauber told Leclerc to let Ericsson by to attack Alonso, and when it was clear that Alonso was safe, they let Leclerc take the lead back right at the end, so he finishes ninth.Grosjean just lapped, and he’s running fifth ahead of teammate Magnussen in sixth.
With a gap under two seconds, Verstappen brings his car home for the race win, ahead of Raikkonen and Vettel! He’ll have his teammate, Lewis Hamilton, keeping him company on the front row when the race gets underway at 9 a.m.