3:24 p.m. : Carlos Sainz openly questions the strategy of his team, which has chosen to stop the two cars. At the finish, the Spaniard fell to 5th place even though he had a better pace than Leclerc… The Ferrari circus started again! Verstappen, he did not stop and he goes it alone in the lead.
3:23 p.m. : Virtual safety car. The two Ferraris stop in the pits, with two mixed stops, 4.4 and 4.5 seconds.
3:19 p.m .: Hamilton at the limit of the penalty for exceeding the number of authorized track exits, he no longer has the right to make mistakes. And we’re only in the 13th round…
3:18 p.m. : “Tell us each time Hamilton is off the track (to report it to the race director)”, we ask at McLaren. Answer from the Englishman: “He goes off the track every time, I’m not going to spend my time pointing it out to you! “.
3:13 p.m .: Which suits Verstappen, who is already 2 seconds ahead of Leclerc.
3:11 p.m. : Big battle in second and third position between Leclerc and Sainz. The Spaniard seems faster than the Monegasque, he should quickly ask him on the radio to give way.
3:10 p.m. : Starting in 15th position, Perez is launched in a nice comeback. He just dropped Ocon to take 12th place.
3:09 p.m. : Go hop, packed it’s weighed, Verstappen is already widening the gap with the two Ferraris when we are only on the fifth lap. And fastest lap in the race for tenacious Max.
3:06 p.m. : Tsunoda did indeed come and hit Esteban Ocon from behind. He therefore leaves his fin there in passing. very, too aggressive the Japanese at the start of the race.
3:05 p.m .: There is debris at the exit of turn 1. Tsunoda has broken his wing a priori, here he is in any case coming to the pits to get a makeover.
3:04 p.m. : The positions remained unchanged during the first turns. Leclerc still tries to attack Verstappen but the Dutchman does not let it go.
3:03 p.m .: It’s off!
3:02 p.m. : The pilots finish with the formation lap. Turn up the volume, and go to the first corner!
2:55 p.m. : After the Basque orange tide in the streets of Bilbao yesterday for the start of the Tour, place the Dutch orange tide in Austria today to support Verstappen, undisputed king of this F1 championship.
2:48 p.m. : Note however that we find two Ferraris in the top 3 of the starting grid, a first this season, proof that the Scuderia still manages to find answers with its modified SF-23.
2:46 p.m. : Hi team! Welcome to this new live F1 which forces me to let go of the Tour de France (with regret). Hoping that there is, in the absence of suspense for the final victory, at least a little animation in this GP of Austria.
A big day of lives as we like them today with cycling, F1 and Hopes at football tonight. We will start with the 2nd stage of the tour, but it is the Austrian Grand Prix which will deliver its verdict first. Bad tongues will say that we know him in advance, with Verstappen in front and the others far behind, but hope is alive and Saturday’s sprint race showed that the Red Bulls could at least scare each other. , which is a starting point. And then the mini-revival of Ferrari suggests that the Dutch world champion will not win by 30 seconds. Let’s hope so at least for the suspense. Meet at 3 p.m.