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McLaren's Norris wins Austrian Grand Prix

Sports · RGK.co.ke · June 29, 2025
McLaren's Norris wins Austrian Grand Prix
Lando Norris fought off a challenge from McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri to win the Austrian Grand Prix. PHOTO/Andrej ISAKOVIC
In Summary

Norris' third win of the year, leading home a McLaren one-two.

Lando Norris fought off a challenge from McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri to win the Austrian Grand Prix, reports the BBC.

Norris' third win of the year, leading home a McLaren one-two, reduced his deficit in the championship to the Australian to 15 points heading into the British Grand Prix next weekend.

The McLarens utterly dominated the race - Ferrari's Charles Leclerc took the final podium place 17 seconds behind, with team-mate Lewis Hamilton fourth a further nine behind.

Mercedes' George Russell took fifth, while Red Bull's Max Verstappen was taken out by the other Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli on the first lap and is 61 points off the championship lead.

Piastri challenged Briton Norris hard in the first stint after passing Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, which had split the McLarens in qualifying, at the first corner.

Norris made mistakes in Turns Nine and 10 at the end of lap 10, and that gave Piastri the chance to have a run on him into the following lap.

The Australian briefly took the lead at Turn Three, only for Norris to repass at the next corner.

And Piastri flirted with disaster when he made a late dive down the inside at Turn Four on lap 20, locking up his brakes and narrowly avoiding hitting the back of Norris' car.

Norris made his first stop at the end of that lap. Piastri waited three further laps before making his, and Norris seemed to be in control through the middle stint.

But after their final stops, which they made one after the other with 17 and 16 laps to go, Piastri began to close in again.

Coming out from his stop four seconds behind, Piastri was within two seconds of Norris with 10 laps to go, and Norris went on the radio to tell his engineer Will Joseph that he "needed some pace - please help".

But Norris, despite some damage on his front wing, managed to stabilise the gap and hold on to the chequered flag for a much-needed victory, two weeks after he ended his own Canadian Grand Prix by running into the back of with his team-mate.

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