Austrian Grand Prix: Formula One – live

Key events

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Preamble

Lap 67/71: Alonso in 18th in danger of being lapped by Albon in 17th … What a weekend for Aston Martin.

Lap 66/71: The lead is less than 4sec but Karun Chandhok believes it’s a managed decline with backmarkers causing it in part.

Lap 64/71: Russell leads by 4.6sec still. Antonelli is 3.4 behind Verstappen.

Lap 63/71: Things have calmed down generally. Rain would shake it all up for sure.

Lap 61/71: George Russell’s odds are shortening as he is keeping Verstappen at a safe distance for now. He has not won a race since the opener in Australia.

Lap 59/71: Lando Norris passes Leclerc. From P2 to P8. Still, he has 46 sec on Lawson in P9.

Lap 58/71: Russell went wide and lost almost a second. He remains the favourite but you can hear the smile in Laurent Mekies’s voice as the Red Bull principal says Verstappen is running “an amazing race”.

Lap 56/71: Hamilton, in fifth, losing time to Piastri. Hadjar then takes Leclerc, and the Monegasque gets bleeped on a comment on his tyres.

Lap 54/71: Bernie Collins on the radar: it’s raining 10 miles away. That could be tricky.

Lap 53/71: Norris noted for a pitlane problem, released close to Colapinto.

Lap 52/71: VSC. A loose bollard.

Lap 51/71: Antonelli pits, so Russell has the lead from Verstappen. Antonelli comes out in third, 4.6sec behind Verstappen.

Lap 50/71: The live odds have shifted in Russell’s favour.

Lap 49/71: Verstappen pits. Antonelli in the lead, Russell up to second, Verstappen rejoins in third.

Lap 48/71: Piastri passes Leclerc. McLaren are doing well versus Ferrari there.

Lap 48/71: Norris in, no one-stop. Hamilton up to sixth.

Lap 47/71: Russell is strategising for the cars around him, Bernie Collins reckons, hoping Antonelli pits and brings in Verstappen. Could Antonelli keep going long enough to finish on softs?

Lap 46/71: Norris told to keep driving. Could he manage a one-stop with sufficient pace.

Lap 45/71: So Verstappen leads from Antonelli, both with one stop, then Russell has had two, Norris one, Leclerc and Piastri two, Hamilton three.

Lap 44/71: Now Mercedes are coming out for Russell’s stop. 2.3sec. Red Bull pull a stop for Verstappen.

Lap 43/71: Piastri and Ferrari pit! No change in order.

Lap 42/71: Alonso has a 5sec penalty for speeding in the pitlane. He is running 19th, the last man on the track.

Lap 41/71: Antonelli is closer to Verstappen but not closing at the rate the Dutchman is on Russell.

Lap 40/71: Russell locked up at the hairpin and lost a lot of time, hence Verstappen closing. For what it’s worth, the live betting odds make the Red Bull favourite.

Lap 37/71: Piastri bangs tyres with Leclerc, goes past, Hamilton then overtakes his teammate. The Monegasque started on the front row and is now in the pits. He lost a bit of his front wing.

37/71: Russell seems to have erred and Verstappen can now see him. 2.4sec between them now.

Lap 36/71: Can Antonelli help Russell by putting pressure on Verstappen? It’s not looking that way, with 8sec between second and third.

Lap 35/71: Hamilton back in race mode after his battery cools, takes half a second out of Piastri.

Lap 34/71: The talk is of Verstappen having more tyre choices than Russell and so a potential edge. What a win it would be at Red Bull’s home circuit.

Lap 33/71: Ferrari worried about Hamilton’s temperature. He’s not happy with the instruction as he is already short on power.

Lap 32/71: Hadjar has been by far Verstappen’s fastest teammate in a long time but you can see the difference in how Hamilton could take the Frenchman while the Dutchman overtook the Briton.

Lap 30/71: Antonelli easily passes Leclerc and Hamilton gets past Hadjar.

Lap 30/71: Leclerc defending from Antonelli. How long can he hold him off?

Lap 28/71: The VSC is over and Russell has 4.9 sec on Verstappen. Leclerc third, Antonelli gaining from fourth. Piastri, Hadjar, Hamilton, Norris, Lindblad and Lawson complete the top 10.

Lap 27/71: It gets worse for Antonelli, with break problems. He was on his way to the pits before Sainz stopped, so it was just misfortune and not a bad call.

Lap 26/71: No one else can come in as Sainz is pushed into the pitlane.

Lap 25.71: Ferrari bring in Hamilton and he returns in sixth. Good VSC use there.

Lap 24/71: Laurent Mekies, the Red Bull team principal, is pleased with progress but equivocal over whether they can challenge Russell. Antonelli comes in under yellows after Sainz stops on the main straight. But then the virtual safety car comes out and Antonelli loses a place to Leclerc.

Lap 23/71: Russell has 3.3sec on Verstappen. Hamilton was cleared, by the way, over the earlier incidents.

Lap 22/71: We are back to the Hamilton-Verstappen duel, the pair swap places then the Red Bull makes it stick.

Lap 22/71: Norris gets his way.

21/71: Norris told he is staying out for now but he’s not happy. He has no pace.

Lap 20/71: Russell has a 2.3sec pit stop and comes back out in third, behind Antonelli and Norris.

Lap 19/71: Hamilton made it past the pits OK and has a small lead over Verstappen.

Lap 19/71: Verstappen pits – 2.4 sec. Russell and Antonelli pass.

Lap 18/71: Hamilton checks on his speed and is told he’s faster than Leclerc. He is up to seventh in clean air.

Lap 17/71: George Russell, to David Croft “the tyre whisperer”, wonders about a one-stop.

Lap 16/71: The stewards note Hamilton for possibly forcing off Verstappen. Karun Chandhok reckons it was OK.

Lap 15/71: Verstappen going faster than he was, but not as fast as Hamilton on his fresh tyres. Decisions, decisions.