Giles Richards was at the Red Bull Ring and here is his verdict:
For Norris this was just the result he required after his title hopes took a battering when he made the misjudged move against Piastri in Montreal, dropping him to 22 points behind the Australian.
At the Red Bull Ring this weekend Norris had insisted his error in Canada had ultimately resulted in a positive outcome, that he and the team emerged stronger now the seemingly unavoidable clash had finally happened.
Certainly Norris looked enormously comfortable in qualifying, which has been his achilles heel this season. In Austria, it all appeared to come together and the British driver looked in complete control from the off.
Read his full report here.
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Verstappen, who finished in a lowly seventh, has his say to Sky Sports:
It would have been close potentially until the yellow flag but that’s still miles off pole. So that, at the end, is not really that painful.
FP3 wasn’t too bad but somehow in qualifying it just completely disappeared. There was not a single corner where I felt happy with the car and it was, of course, then a big problem in qualifying.
I don’t really look at the standings, I just want to do the best I can in the race weekend.
Hopefully tomorrow we can at least be competitive with Ferrari or Mercedes. I don’t know even, because with the balance we had in qualy that’s for sure not going to look great for tomorrow, but we will analyse everything.
