The 2022 season F1 Austria stands today and ushered in the main competition! In the end, Leclerc overcame potential racing problems in the last minute to win the championship! It was also the first time in his career that he had won the championship from the non-pole position! Verstappen finished second and Hamilton finished third on the podium again!
Mick Schumacher finished in sixth place again to set his best! Zhou Guanyu finished in 14th place, while another Ferrari driver, Sainz, withdrew due to a burst...
Austria regular race
In this race, Zhou Guanyu, Kakuda Yuki, Wattle and Alonso all started with white tires, the rest of the drivers all started with yellow tires, and Bottas started in the pit lane. With five red lights out, the season's F1 Austria race officially begins! Sainz, who started in third, was attacked by Russell, and Then Perez also caught up but was knocked off the track by his opponent when he tried to overtake Russell at Turn 4, and then immediately entered the station to change into a white tire. After the game investigation, Russell was given a penalty of 5 seconds.
The third lap of drs was activated, with Mick Schumacher, who had performed well in the sprint, chasing Hamilton! On the fifth lap, when the official was still replaying the departure, Mick overtook Hamilton to seventh! Steiner's Ecstasy !!!
On lap 7, Bottas pitted tire change in 5.7 seconds! And Leclerc, who gradually shrugged off Sainz, began to bite Verstappen, and the gap narrowed to about 0.5 seconds! It wasn't until lap 10 that Leclerc began putting pressure on Verstappen at Turn Three!
Such an attack allows Sainz behind him to gradually catch up! Verstappen told the team in TR that he wouldn't last long! As a result, at turn four on lap 12, Leclerc successfully overtook Verstappen from the inside line quite resolutely, and then quickly took it away! This overtaking was achieved in front of sixty thousand Dutch car fans! And the Tifosi on the scene were all excited and crying!
Verstappen then switched to a white tire, but a mistake resulted in a loss of time, and he fell to seventh place after leaving the station.
On lap 15, Hamilton at the rear of the formation began to exert his strength! After overtaking Mick at the unconventional overtaking point and overtaking Magnussen at Turn Four, Hamilton was in third place as the cars ahead came in! And on lap 18, Verstappen behind him attacked decisively, and after overtaking in the third corner without success, he overtook on the straight!
On lap 20, Mick, who was replaced by a white tire, overtook Ricardo to 12th place, and Mick was in very good shape in Austria!
Zhou Guanyu, who started with a white tire, was seventh on lap 22, but was immediately attacked by Aucom and Alonso behind him, and the fourth turn was first surpassed by Aucom. On lap 25, Zhou Guanyu was "surrounded" by Magnussen, Norris, Alonso and Mick and dropped four positions, followed by a pit stop to change into a white tire.
On lap 27 Perez withdrew due to damage to the car in the opening accident, Leclerc pitted for 2.6 seconds, and Sainz also entered the pit stop with only 2.3 seconds! The tire changer's performance was outstanding, both Ferraris were white tires! Verstappen came first, followed by Leclerc and Sainz! In contrast, the Hamilton pit stop on lap 29 took up to 4.1 seconds to change the tire and was a bit crotch-pulling...
At the start of lap 33, Leclerc, who had chased the DRS zone, took a draw before turn three and then easily overtook Verstappen to first! Ferrari is too strong!
In lap 34, The head brother "taught people" on the spot, and in front of the corner of the third turn, the latter compressed Alonso's position on the straight, causing the "head brother" car to rub into the lawn, but Alonso then achieved the overtaking to 16th place! After occupying the parking space before entering the corner, Alonso shook his finger at Kakuda! It is the famous scene of this competition!
In the second half of the race, On lap 40, Vater was rushed out of the track by the latter in a fight with Gasley and fell to 14th place, and the slow mirror replay of Gasley's move was really unreasonable! The match then showed a penalty and Gasley was sent 5 seconds! Plus the previous 5 seconds due to excessive over-track restrictions, Gasley has been fined 10 seconds!
The leading group on lap 43 has overtaken the slow car, and Leclerc, who is leading on lap 44, has already led third-place Verstappen to a pit stop window. Russell overtook Stroor to seventh, who was immediately chased by Mick! On lap 48, Mick also overtook it...
On lap 48, Zhou Guanyu took as much as 9,6 seconds to change the tires, which...
On lap 49, seeing Verstappen, who had already stopped twice, gradually catching up with Ferrari, the Prancing Horse summoned Leclerc and Sainz to pit stop at this time, vowing to solve the problem on the track! Finally, on lap 53, taking advantage of the mechanical grip, Leclerc once again overtook Red Bull at Turn Three, and in the presence of Red Bull home fans, Ferrari overtook Red Bull in the same corner, three times!
Didn't expect !!! On lap 57, Binotto's dream of surpassing Verstappen in two consecutive Ferraris was shattered!!! Sainz was just about to go over Verstappen, but the car suddenly burst out of the track and caught fire, so he withdrew from the race to compete!!! The virtual safety car was then presented, and Leclerc and Verstappen entered the station to change into yellow tires!
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Lap 60 resumed! Leclerc told TR that he had a problem with his gas pedal and startled everyone into a cold sweat! But then the team said there was no problem, and with Leclerc brushing purple, it was a false alarm! On lap 61, Russell overtook Aucom at turn three to advance to fourth!
But!!! At lap 64 Leclerc once again reported to the team at TR that there was a problem with his throttle pedal!!! No way!!! TR then replied that Leclerc was the result of his personal manipulation... All right......
Meanwhile, Bottas, who started from the pit lane, overtook Alben to tenth and into the points zone! Then the race came to the final five laps of contention! The gap between Leclerc's Verstappen and the former is always around 2.7 seconds! Ferrari's stability was put to the test in the last minutes!!!
On the last two laps, Leclerc's race was relatively conservative, and he pressed the brakes early before Turn 3 to keep him safe! The last lap! Leclerc finally held the position and was the first to cross the finish line! Welcome the lattice flag to win this season's Austrian race!!!
Verstappen finished second, Hamilton finished third, russell and O'Conn followed, and Mick Schumacher finished in sixth!!! Norris finished seventh, followed by Magnussen, Ricciardo and Alonso, and Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu finished in 14th place.