For the second week running at the Red Bull Ring, Verstappen dominated pro▨ceedings to claim his fifth victory from the openin🌜g nine races of the season to stretch his championship advantage over Hamilton to 32 points.

Valtteri Bottas finished a distant second, nearly 20 seconds behind Verstappen, while Lando Noꦇrris fought back from a five-second tim𒀰e penalty to complete the podium in third place.

Norris was penalised for knocking Red Bull’s Sergio Perez into the Turn 4 gravel at an early Safety Car restart💦 as they fought over second place but the McLaren driver brilliantly bounced back, pulling off a superb lunge on Hamilton into Turn 6 to seal his t൲hird podium of what has been an outstanding season for the Briton.

Following a disap꧅pointing qualifying, Hamilton had battled his way up to second but the seven-time world champion picke🦄d up damage on the floor of his Mercedes after running wide over the kerbs.

Having initially been instructed not to race his teammate, Bottas moved into second pl🍌ace when Mercedes got its drivers to swap positions due to Hamilton’s pace strug🌳gles.

After making a second stop, Hamilton even꧟tually crossed the line over 45s behind his main rival Verstappen as he suffered a blow to his hopes of winning a record-breaking eighth world ti🍬tle. 

Carlos Sainz finished fifth for Ferrari after Sergio Perez was handed a 10-second🍃 time pena🍃lty for two clashes with Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari that dropped him to sixth after the chequered flag.

McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo beat Leclerc to eighth, a🧜head of Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri and Fernando Alonso, who came out on top of an intense late fight with Williams’ George Russell to claim the final point.

Full 2021 F1 Austrian Grand Prix results.