Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) was proclaimed the winner of the Austrian Grand Prix yesterday, the first race of the resumption of the Formula 1 World Championship after being stopped by the coronavirus pandemic. All in all, in a date in which the Spaniard Carlos Sainz was fifth and in which a penalty to Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) for an incident with Alexander Albon (Red Bull) left the Briton, candidate for victory and the title , off the podium.
In a bumpy date, in which up to nine cars could not finish the race, the excitement was made to wait until the last laps; at 62, the reigning world champion continued his hunt for his teammate, who was leading after leaving the pole, and in his fight he took Alexander Albon, whom he left out of the race due to a collision when he was in parallel trying to overtake him. The commissioners penalized the action with five seconds, enough for the also British Lando Norris (McLaren), who in his last lap marked the fast lap, could go back to third place and take Hamilton off the podium. The second position was for the Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), the only joy in the Scuderia, as German Sebastian Vettel finished tenth.
Meanwhile, Spaniard Carlos Sainz signed a commendable fifth place on the side behind Hamilton, who was second but dropped two positions from the penalty spot. The Madrid man’s comeback, which started from eighth position, could have been even bigger if, in the absence of a few laps to go, he had managed to successfully complete his attempt to overtake Norris.
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