Austria: New Film Incentives & Production Boom

The eleventh race of the 2025 season of Formula 1 arrives in the middle of the Hollywood parties. The premiere in style of the film starring Brad Pitt has eclipsed practically all the news between the Canada quote, which ended with a script turn in the form of an accident between the two maximum contestants, and that of Austria this weekend in what was once known as A1 Ring, now Red Bull Ring. That does not mean that the plot that is being developed at this time of the ‘film’ of the real F1 is not in one of its most high expectation points.

And it is that the shortest circuit in time per return of the calendar is a perfect touch stone to measure to what extent you have to trust Oscar Piestri and Lando Norris to lead the current grill. The absurd accident that the British had against his partner while fighting for the podium left both the pilot and his team, McLaren, who has been walking on the edge of the knife to manage the fight between his two runners.

Piastri, as hieratic in its forms as in its piloting, does not have to be leader of Austria -they separate 22 points from Norris -but is aware that now part with some advantage, not only sports, but also moral over his partner. The pifia of the last laps in Montreal have left Norris very touched, who believed the referent and to which they have passed the right to the point that their candidacy, no longer because of the leadership of McLaren and, therefore, of the World Cup is in question, but also is also looking at the rearview mirror in itself.

And Mercedes arrives in Austria smelling blood. After months of wandering the middle zone but always grabbing the high zone, those of Brackley gave in Canada a blow of authority: pole and victory for George Russell, first podium for Kimi Antonelli and, incidentally, second place in the World Cup in Constructors. Ferrari, meanwhile, was not only irrelevant in Montreal, but begins to give worrying signs of decomposition. The Scuderia is obliged to react already if he does not want to see how Mercedes escapes, with Lewis Hamilton increasingly questioned by a frankly improvable start of Era in Ferrari.

Verstappen, confident

In Red Bull the situation also has its crumb. Max Verstappen continues with 11 penalty points, only one of the automatic suspension. A wire too fine for someone with their history. Even so, the current champion behaved in Canada as if nothing rubs him, completing a clean weekend that keeps him third in the general. But every wolf knows how to bite, and the docility shown in Montreal does not have to be seen again in a circuit where, in addition, he hosts in his condition as a referent of Red Bull. The proximity of the Netherlands also makes it one of its careers that you can consider premises, as it shows that in previous years the stands of orange flags with hundreds of Dutch fans to support your idol are filled. The control of your emotions will be key to Verstappen, which faces this summer start that the doubts of the above benefit him.

In the platoon, the war is fierce. Williams endures the guy in fifth position, but the persecuting group arrives launched. Carlos Sainz knows that his margin of error is rather scarce, since the area in which his team and his rivals are handled is the most sandy. Between Haas, Alpine, RB and Sauber there are only eight points of difference. A slow stop, a poorly calculated touch, a bad strategy … and you can fall three positions in a sigh. It also computes this warning for Williams and even Aston Martin’s men.

Alonso and the little steps

There is a reality in Aston Martin: the novelties that premiered a few great prizes are working. It is no accident that Fernando Alonso has played the Q3 in the last races or that he has added its first eight points in the appointments of Montmeló and Montreal. Now in the Red Bull Ring, a layout with three DRS areas and several overtaking points, he is aware that he will not be able to attack as much as he would like, but rather he will have to defend himself. A corrected route like this does not come right to AMR25.

Even so, trust is intact. Alonso arrives at this appointment wanting to show that the possibility of not even exceeding his partner Lance Stroll, who adds about 14 unexpected points, is not even in his worst nightmares. That is why everything that is not to repeat sensations and, if you can result, it will be a surprise.