Austrian Grand Prix

Formula 1 bosses have launched an investigation into reports of fans being subjected to "completely unacceptable" abuse at the Austrian GP, while Lewis ...

"It is mind-blowing that people would do that, knowing how dangerous our sport is. Lewis Hamilton posted on his Instagram stories: "Disgusted and disappointed to hear that some fans are facing racist, homophobic and generally abusive behaviour at the circuit this weekend. "Disgusted and disappointed to hear that some fans are facing racist, homophobic and generally abusive behaviour at the circuit this weekend," says Lewis Hamilton; F1 launches investigation into "unacceptable" abuse

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc won the Austrian Grand Prix over Red Bull's Max Verstappen with Lewis Hamilton completing the podium for Mercedes after Carlos ...

Sainz was right on Verstappen’s tail but on Lap 57, the Ferrari driver slowed and pulled off the track. Verstappen tried to hit back on Lap 13, locking up into Turn 4, and soon complied with the message to box, pitting for hards at the end of the lap. I had this problem with the throttle and it would get stuck at 20 or 30% throttle in the low speed, so it was very tricky but we managed to make it stick until the end and I'm so, so happy. Ferrari are on a roll, Red Bull still however in the lead of both championships. The Dane pitted but Schumacher stayed out, the Red Bull of Verstappen in his mirrors before blasting past on the run to Turn 3 on the next tour. The reigning champion radioed to say that the car was “unpredictable” as he stared down a 1.5 second deficit to the Monegasque – aiming to protect a four-second advantage on Sainz. With Lewis Hamilton taking too much of the kerb out of Turn 1 on Lap 4, Mick Schumacher blazed past for P7 and had eyes on his Haas team mate up ahead. Ocon edged ahead but lost out to the Briton entering Turn 3 on the following lap. With Sainz right on Verstappen’s tail, the Spaniard suddenly slowed – the fire at the rear of his Ferrari signalling the end of his race. George Russell was a distant fourth having started there, the Mercedes driver losing time in his first pit stop – a five-second penalty also tacked on as he collided with Red Bull's Sergio Perez early on. Leclerc took his second stop on Lap 51 and retook the lead on Lap 53. With Sainz challenging Verstappen for P2, the Dutchman pitted again on Lap 37.

Charles Leclerc overtook Max Verstappen three times on track for a brilliant and long-overdue win at the Austrian GP, with Lewis Hamilton third as Ferrari's ...

Both Gasly and Russell got five-second penalties. NO!" said Sainz on team radio. He added on his win: "I definitely needed that one." On the first lap, Perez went around the outside of Russell before he was squeezed and then by the Mercedes. He continued after a pit-stop but had too much damage, and too little pace, and was retired. Sainz was on the same strategy to Leclerc and had DRS on Verstappen before his extremely unlucky DNF. Sainz's engine blew and then caught fire to cost the Spaniard a podium to follow up his British GP win. Leclerc had gone three months without a win and two without even a podium coming into the Spielberg race, but he was a man on a mission on Sunday and not even the world champion and title leader could stop him.

SPIELBERG, Austria — Formula One drivers were quick to condemn the behavior of some abusive fans at the Austrian Grand Prix. F1 said prior to Sunday's race ...

“We are shocked to hear that there have been some incidents of abusive behavior in the grandstands and the fan parks,” he said. “I believe that as a community, people who are witnessing any type of harassment should act and do something,” he said. “We have been made aware of reports that some fans have been subject to completely unacceptable comments by others at the Austrian Grand Prix,” F1 said in a statement.

Charles Leclerc revived his Formula One title challenge by holding on to win the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday for a third victory of the season.

Leclerc’s fifth career victory was one of his best, considering how he held on at the end. “We suffered with the tires. He was unharmed, sitting on the grass to contemplate his bad luck. “I definitely needed that win, the last five races have been incredibly difficult,“ Leclerc said. Leclerc moved up to second overall but is still a distant 38 points behind Verstappen — 208 vs. “I was scared.

Charles Leclerc won the Austrian Grand Prix after holding off a challenge from Red Bull rival Max Verstappen.

LAP 51/71 - SAINZ ALSO PITS - Sainz has also come in for hards, and drops back into P3. Verstappen leads, but Leclerc has now closed the gap to under a second! LAP 53/71 - LECLERC RETAKES THE LEAD! - Leclerc gets past Verstappen down the back straight into Turn 4! LAP 49/71 - LECLERC PITS AGAIN! - The one-stop strategy has not worked for Ferrari as Leclerc pits from the lead! LAP 12/71 - LECLERC TAKES THE LEAD! - What a brilliant overtake to silence the 60,000 Dutch fans! His fresher tyres,which are 12 laps better off than Verstappen’s, do the trick, and the Ferrari eases past and goes back into the lead. The Red Bull driver came in for a fresh set of harder tyres a lap later as a result, and emerged back out in P8. It looks like Perez left Russell enough room, and the Mercedes hit the Red Bull mid-corner in Turn 4, causing the Red Bull to spin into the gravel. Then, disaster struck Ferrari on Lap 57, as Sainz, who was on track to get past Verstappen to secure a Ferrari one-two finish, pulled off the track down the back straight with an engine failure. Verstappen's advantage did not last long, though, as on Lap 33, Leclerc made up the six second gap to the Red Bull to ease past down into Turn 3. Hamilton may count himself lucky that he was able to capitalise on some misfortune elsewhere on the grid. Despite the problems, Leclerc dealt with them to cross the line to take his fourth Formula 1 victory. Russell, who had the inside line, forced Perez around the outside of the corner, but the lack of room for the Mexican meant that the drivers made contact, resulting in the Red Bull spinning out into the gravel.

Some of those in attendance at the Red Bull Ring this weekend took to social media to complain of racism, homophobia and misogyny from other people in the ...

"And I'm grateful that I wasn't in hospital, and I wasn't heavily injured, but you should never cheer someone's downfall or someone's injury or crash. "We have been made aware of reports that some fans have been subject to completely unacceptable comments by others at the event," a spokesperson said. This kind of behaviour is unacceptable and will not be tolerated and all fans should be treated with respect."

Sebastian Vettel says Formula 1 should introduce life bans for abusive fans following harassment reported at the Red Bull Ring during the Austrian Grand ...

I haven't read the statement from F1 but of course I hope it's firm and you've got to come down hard." "I hate negativity, I don't like talking about negative news, but if that's going on then it's a damn shame. To be honest I just heard about it after the race now and I heard that there's a few victims and fans who I believe are in the paddock, so we're gonna go and say g'day to a few of them and give them a bit of love.

The stewards called Austrian Grand Prix podium drivers Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc to their offices over alleged breaches of parc ...

In the extremely unlikely event that a sporting penalty had been applied instead, George Russell, Esteban Ocon and Mick Schumacher would have been the next three racers in line. Prominent F1 reporter Chris Medland added: "It relates to the drivers' physios interacting with the drivers in Parc Ferme before they've been weighed. It briefly placed the result of the race into some doubt, with all three drivers who stood on the podium facing an investigation.

Formula 1 has confirmed it will discuss the “unacceptable” harassment reported by a number of fans at the Red Bull Ring with the Austrian Grand Prix ...

We love the fans, we want them to be there, we want them to be emotional and passionate, but maybe when it gets personal that shouldn't happen." “It shouldn't have happened in Silverstone, even though it wasn't obviously a crash, and it shouldn't have happened here.” “We have been made aware of reports that some fans have been subject to completely unacceptable comments by others at the event,” F1 said in a statement.

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Formula One says it is investigating reports of "unacceptable" harassment reported by some fans attending the Austrian Grand Prix weekend.

Fans should put themselves in the same position." "This kind of behaviour is unacceptable and will not be tolerated and all fans should be treated with respect." In a statement on Sunday F1 said it had been made aware of "reports that some fans have been subject to completely unacceptable comments by others at the event".

Unsurprisingly, both Ferrari F1 drivers feature in The Race's list of Austrian GP winners and losers. but who else joined them?

– VK – Josh Suttill Stroll ran a long first stint and put up a valiant defence against most of the midfield, but he needed a miracle or a full safety car to properly challenge for the top 10. If anything, the surprising bit was that it didn’t stick all the way in and prevent him from finishing. – Valentin Khorounzhiy Three passes on the championship leader, that must’ve felt good, too.

DRIVERS 1 – Charles LECLERC (Ferrari) 2 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing)3 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) TRACK INTERVIEWS(Conducted by David Coulthard)

And I try, if I can, to keep the people that I love around me also safe when I can, when I'm around them. I urge people to do what they want to do and it's your health at the end of the day. So these are things where we have to look into how we can make it better because also for the stewards and just the people involved with checking these track limits, I mean it's almost impossible to check these kind of things because you need what… It sounds very easy, but it's not because when you go that quick through a corner and some of them are a bit blind, if you have a bit more understeer, tyres are wearing, it's easy to just go over the white line, but do we actually gain time? MV: No, no, I think it was just good racing, you try to defend, you try to attack the other person? And it shouldn't matter, your gender, your sexuality, or the colour of your skin, you know, it should just be everyone here to have a great time. LH: Yeah, I arrived with a really positive mindset this morning and then I heard some of the things that had been said and just in a bit of shock and just really sad and just to know that people arrive on the weekend to have a great time, to celebrate, to enjoy their time off and enjoy a great experience. And you know, if you go to the UK, we've got a obviously a wide range of fans that go there. CL: Yeah, I don't think it makes sense to go so much into the details but yeah, just the driving. I've seen the statement of Formula 1 just before the race and yeah, I just hope that Formula 1 can do something for that. And I expected it to be tough today, but I didn't expect it to be like this. But yeah, it was a surprise to do that much of a step forward.

The drivers and teams report back on all the action from the Red Bull Ring, for the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix 2022...

I think he was just a bit too keen, ran into me, and I was off in the gravel. “Nicholas suffered with some floor damage early in the race, which cost him a lot of downforce and made the car very difficult to drive. “The whole race we were more or less matching the McLarens, we hit a bit of traffic here and there but I was really happy with our pace and we’ve definitely made a step forward this weekend. “I was hoping for points today, that was the target, and it’s a bit disappointing to be finishing just outside the top ten. The pace in the car was reasonable and we got the points that we wanted, so happy in the end. We looked strong yesterday, but today we spent the first part of the race stuck in a train and then struggled with the hard tyre. Big thanks to everyone for working so hard at the track and back home, we made a good recovery from Friday to score some decent points." "I had a bit of an engine issue all race so I was just praying to God that it wouldn’t blow up, which it didn’t, so I’m super thankful for that so I could finish the race without a problem. As a team, we are heading in the right direction and we have good momentum before heading to Paul-Ricard, one of the team's home races, and of course mine too. We had a lot of damage to the car and we were going nowhere so we had to retire. Quite soon I felt it wasn’t going to be a one-stop race just because of the way the tires were behaving – the winds were very different and difficult to manage. To score a single point on this race is a bit of a shame, but we can be very happy with our overall pace and performance as a team.”

Charles Leclerc overtook Max Verstappen three times on track for a brilliant and long-overdue win at the Austrian GP, with Lewis Hamilton third as Ferrari's ...

Both Gasly and Russell got five-second penalties. NO!" said Sainz on team radio. He added on his win: "I definitely needed that one." Sainz was on the same strategy to Leclerc and had DRS on Verstappen before his extremely unlucky DNF. Sainz's engine blew and then caught fire to cost the Spaniard a podium to follow up his British GP win. Leclerc had gone three months without a win and two without even a podium coming into the Spielberg race, but he was a man on a mission on Sunday and not even the world champion and title leader could stop him. Charles Leclerc overtook Max Verstappen three times on track for a brilliant and long-overdue win at the Austrian GP, with Lewis Hamilton third as Ferrari's celebratory mood was dented by Carlos Sainz's dramatic engine fire.

Charles Leclerc outdueled Max Verstappen to win the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday and thrust himself back into the Formula One driver's championship race.

Congrats to Charles for the win! Good amount of points lost for both championships but I'm feeling better and better in the car. I had this problem with the throttle and it would get stuck at 20 or 30% throttle in the low speed, so it was very tricky but we managed to make it stick until the end and I'm so, so happy.

Formula One drivers including Lewis Hamilton have condemned racist abuse apparently suffered by fans at the Austrian Grand Prix.

It should just be everyone here to have a good time." "It comes down to education and, of course, ignorance. "It comes down to education and, of course, ignorance," Hamilton says.

Team by team analysis of Sunday's Austrian Formula One Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, round 11 of the 22 race season (teams listed in ...

Zhou raced well after his big crash at Silverstone but was handed a five second penalty for exceeding track limits. Russell damaged his front wing in the lap one incident with Perez and was handed a five second penalty for causing the collision. Magnussen started seventh and Schumacher ninth, with the German overtaking on lap 33. Norris started 10th and collected a five second penalty for exceeding track limits. He started second on Sunday. The success lifted him to second overall and he overtook Verstappen three times on track to become Ferrari's first winner in Austria since Michael Schumacher in 2003. Verstappen won the Saturday sprint for eight points after taking pole on Friday. He took a bonus point on Sunday for fastest lap, after a two-stop race, and leaves Austria with a 38 point lead.

Charles Leclerc said it felt "incredible" to end a seven-race winless streak, as he overtook Max Verstappen three times and overcame a late throttle issue ...

"We managed to make it stick until the end and I am so happy. "It looked like Carlos was also going to overtake me, but unfortunately he encountered engine trouble. "Weirdly [the throttle issue] was more or less the same time [as Sainz's retirement], so I had it in my mind. We need to push until the end." The pace was there. At the beginning, we had some good fights with Max and the end was incredibly difficult.

Charles Leclerc passed Max Verstappen for the lead three times and managed a stuck throttle in the closing laps to win the Austrian GP.

By lap 33, Leclerc was in DRS range of Verstappen and pulled to the inside at the uphill braking zone of turn three to sweep by and back into the lead. Verstappen then pitted for a second time at the end of lap 36 – the halfway point of the race – for another set of hard tyres. With Leclerc through, Verstappen began falling into the clutches of Sainz behind. Two laps later, Leclerc used DRS to tuck into the leader’s slipstream and then lunge to the inside of turn four to muscle his way into the lead. Sainz fought back to retake third from Russell, who then came under pressure from Sergio Perez. As Perez tried to pass the Mercedes around the outside of turn four, the pair touched at the apex of the corner, sending Perez spinning into the gravel and falling to the back of the field. When the lights went out, Verstappen kept the lead at the start, with Leclerc in third and George Russell moving into third ahead of Sainz.

'F*** off': Mercedes boss' stunning swipe at 'brainless' F1 fans after reports of sexist, racist abuse.

“As Formula 1, if we manage to find these people, we need to take hard actions. A normal human being, I think, should think like that and should behave like that. The Red Bull Ring has a distinct music festival-like atmosphere owing the campgrounds and caravan sites encircling the small track. “We just need to target these guys and pick them out and say, ‘You’,” he said. It didn’t actually do anything — there was no funding towards anything, there was no program to actually create change and spark that conversation. We Race as One was all good and well, but it was just words.

A number of allegations, including of sexual harassment, have emerged on social media from people attending this weekend's race at the Red Bull Ring in ...

This kind of behaviour is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.' 'I shouldn't have to say it. 'Attending the Austrian Grand Prix or any GP should never be a source of anxiety and pain for fans and something must be done to ensure that races are safe spaces for all. 'I was in shock and really sad. An earlier statement from F1 read: 'We have been made aware of reports that some fans have been subject to completely unacceptable comments by others at the Austrian Grand Prix. 'Attending the Austrian Grand Prix or any Grand Prix should never be a source of anxiety for fans.

After reliability issues and strategy snafus, the Ferrari driver found his way back to the podium.

"We were looking so good in qualifying and then I crashed the damn thing,” Hamilton said to Sky Sports F1. “Getting your head back around that, knowing the team worked so hard to build a new car for me. ... In the garage in the early evening it looked like somebody dropped a Lego car on the floor. It has been a rough start to the season for Mercedes, who has won the last eight constructor titles, as Hamilton struggled to find a rhythm in this year’s car. I explained to them, if you can come out after the start behind each other, the second one thinks he is faster because you are nine-tenths of a second faster because of the DRS effect. The duo tried to hold off Lewis Hamilton during the Sprint, and Magnussen managed to stay ahead of the Mercedes star. But after the checkered flag, he appeared to encounter an issue of his own as he stopped on the exit of Turn 1. The duo scored a double points finish, and now Alpine and McLaren are tied at 81 points in the constructor standings, trailing Mercedes by a whooping 156 points. “First at pick up and then at the end it would not come back to zero. “I saw in my mirrors that the car was catching [on] fire, but at the same time, I was pressing the brake,” Sainz said in the post-race press conference. The Spaniard started closing in on Verstappen to make a pass on lap 57, smoke emerged from his car. Team boss Mattia Binotto said after the Silverstone race that it was “too close to stop both of them.” Ferrari fans were left bewildered again on Saturday as Sainz and Leclerc went wheel-to-wheel during the sprint race, allowing Verstappen to cruise away with a victory.

Austrian Grand Prix winner Charles Leclerc and his fellow podium finishers Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton have each been handed suspended €10000 fines ...

“In part this is to prevent handing over of items to the drivers prior to them being weighed. The fines were issued after Leclerc, Verstappen and Hamilton’s driver assistants were judged to have entered parc ferme “in violation of the procedure that was published prior to the race” – with the trio’s fines suspended for the remainder of the 2022 season. Your choices on this site will be applied globally.

Formula 1 has launched an investigation into the reports from the Austrian Grand Prix, calling the harassment “completely unacceptable”.

This kind of behaviour is unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” the organisation stated. “I shouldn’t need to say this, it should be a general understanding that this shouldn’t happen. During this global COVID pandemic, we like many other organisations have been impacted greatly in the way we can do business and produce. We have to work together to use our platforms to spread that positive word because people should come here and should feel safe and included. Another said: “Genuinely had to fight off a panic attack and not cry the whole walk back to the exit bc I was scared. disappointing. my expectations were low, but holy cow, racist, homophobic slurs, cat calling, inappropriate talking and touching the list goes on.”

F1 fans attending the Austrian GP experienced catcalling, racial abuse, and more.

It was one thing to be catcalled on the street, where I could dip into a store or rely on the presence of bystanders to protect me. Similarly, no one was quite as outright rude to me in Austin, Montreal, or Miami. There were still people who catcalled or were outright unkind in other ways, but in my experience, those experiences were more isolated and not representative of a large number of people who attended those races. I lost track of how many times I was propositioned in some form or fashion — and I’m only counting the times someone propositioned me in English — to, say, take off my clothes and join them in their hot tub or to expose myself or to just give them a little kiss. During our first day there, I knew that going to the bathroom alone was probably going to be a bad call. Now, I had no idea what they were saying, since my grasp of the German language leaves a lot to be desired, so it was a little easier for me to ignore it. I attended the Austrian Grand Prix back in 2015, where I camped with a group of people who all identified as women, and the problem was evident even back then.

Charles Leclerc claimed his first F1 victory in three months, beating Max Verstappen, while Haas had its best Formula 1 event in four years.

I was angry, I stayed angry, and that helped me get up the field—sometimes angry can be good.” And second became first when Jehan Daruvala was penalized after his team tried to dry his grid spot prior to the start, which is against the rules. "We have glimpses of light at the end of the tunnel with the car - then it disappears again, and we need to get on top of that. It’s hard not to get a little bit down about it but the last two races we’ve been lucky and we’ve had the pace, especially this weekend.” Schumacher cleanly passed Magnussen for position and while they were ultimately split by Lando Norris it meant Schumacher recorded his best Formula 1 finish in sixth. Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher were seventh and ninth respectively in Sprint, giving the Dane two points, though Schumacher was frustrated at being overtaken by Lewis Hamilton after losing the DRS from his team-mate. Now we need to work on the car to close the gap to the teams ahead, then see how we can get in the mix.” Fortunately a marshal intervened and Sainz was unharmed but it was another mechanical setback for Ferrari and for his own ambitions it was a giant comedown off the back of his Silverstone win seven days previously. Red Bull eventually retired him, and that leaves him 57 points behind Verstappen. Despite losing out to Leclerc he still departs Austria, and the mid-point of the 2022 season, with a healthy 38-point advantage over the Ferrari driver in the championship. Turn 3 was very tricky as that’s where you don’t want any more mid-speed corner, mainly slow-speed corners it was tough to manage but we managed to get the car to the end which is great.” It effectively left Leclerc with the throttle still on about 20-30% through the corners, but he was able to keep a charging Verstappen at bay during the closing stages to win by 1.5 seconds

The tension was palpable in the closing laps, and the relief was obvious after Charles Leclerc crossed the line on Sunday. "I definitely needed that," said ...

But the people back in Maranello are working very hard trying to fix them." A 56-point deficit in the standings, therefore, is simply not good enough. "It's just something we need to analyse and understand." The main issue for the Dutchman was tyre degradation. He would then face engine penalties in Canada, while odd Ferrari strategy decisions cost a leading Leclerc chances in Monaco, Baku and at Silverstone. Leclerc, so often the prey this season with Red Bull's straight-line speed advantage, was the hunter.