The 2026 Austrian Grand Prix was one of those races where either of the second or third-place finishers could have won, but the victorious driver – Mercedes' George Russell – was the one who best resisted the pressure at the crucial point.
He remains behind team-mate Kimi Antonelli, the championship leader, but moved up to second place in the standings and narrowed the gap on a day when Antonelli let an untidy first corner compound into an untidy first stint, clearly still rattled by a mistake in qualifying that led him to abort a lap which would have put him on the front row.
