After chaos at the start
LIVE from 12 noon: Who will win the Spielberg sprint?
World champion Max Verstappen won the sprint race in Spielberg on Saturday in commanding style. The Dutchman left the two McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris behind him.
Shortly before the start, photographers who had been too close to the track in turn one had caused a stir. As a result, the start had to be aborted and there was a second warm-up lap. The second attempt finally worked.
After some tough duels in the first few laps, the opening race on this sunny Grand Prix weekend turned out to be a commanding affair for Verstappen.
"We had to work a bit for it in this race," said Verstappen after his third sprint win of the season and his third in Spielberg. "When we were out of the DRS window, I was able to drive my own race," he said.
"Very, very sharp in the first laps"
"It was very, very sharp on the first laps, but a very, very good pace," confirmed team boss Christian Horner to his team leader, who had already won the sprint in Shanghai and Miami.
Verstappen got away perfectly from pole position ahead of the two McLaren cars and led the field through the first few corners. As soon as the DRS overtaking aid was allowed, Norris launched his attacks and had already passed Verstappen by the fifth lap. However, he immediately lost both first and second place to Piastri because he left too much space in the corner. It then only remained exciting between the Australian and Verstappen until the Dutchman had pulled out a lead of over a second.
Hamilton in sixth place
Meanwhile, George Russell in the Mercedes overtook Carlos Sainz's Ferrari to move back up to fourth place, which he had also held at the start. Lewis Hamilton in the second Mercedes was sixth, Charles Leclerc in the Ferrari seventh and Verstappen's team-mate Sergio Perez eighth. It stayed that way until the end of the race.
The main race starts on Sunday at 3pm - sportkrone.at will of course be there live.
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