F1 Austrian GP live updates (2024)

The constructors' standings after today's race:

1. Red Bull, 355
2. Ferrari, 291
3. McLaren, 268
4. Mercedes, 196
5. Aston Martin, 58
6. RB, 30
7. Haas, 19
8. Alpine, 9
9. Williams, 2
10. Sauber, 0

And the drivers' standings:

1. Max Verstappen, 237
2. Lando Norris, 156
3. Charles Leclerc, 150
4. Carlos Sainz, 135
5. Sergio Pérez, 118
6. Oscar Piastri, 112
7. George Russell, 111
8. Laewis Hamilton, 85
9. Fernando Alonso, 41
10. Yuki Tsunoda, 19
11. Lance Stroll, 17
12. Nico Hülkenberg, 14
13. Daniel Ricciardo, 11
14. Ollie Bearman, 6
15. Pierre Gasly, 6
16. Kevin Magnussen, 5
17. Esteban Ocon, 3
18. Alex Albon, 2
19. Zhou Guanyu, 0
20. Valtteri Bottas, 0
21. Logan Sargeant, 0

Speaking with F1TV after the race, Red Bull boss Christian Horner was quick to accuse Lando Norris of repeatedly "divebombing" Max Verstappen in his efforts to take the lead, calling him "over-ambitious."

Horner described the 10-second penalty on Verstappen "harsh," then took a swing at being gracious. "That’s racing sometimes. Congratulations to George, who inherited the win.”

Norris: “It’s for him to say something. I did nothing wrong."

Verstappen: "Of course we'll talk about it."

As in, on the team's performance rather than the collision that snuffed out his and Lando Norris' chances at a win.

“We did so many things wrong throughout the race, we put ourselves in a position like that,” Verstappen said. Chief among them will be a slow pit stop that took four seconds out of his lead on Norris, setting up the ultimately disastrous battle.

“I thought it was a good race until then," Lando Norris told F1TV after a majorly disappointing race in which he did not finish. The blame for the collision that took him out along with Verstappen appears to be firmly the Red Bull driver's fault (and Verstappen received a 10-second penalty for it).

Asked whether he'll talk to Verstappen about the incident, Norris demurred. “It’s for him to say something," he said. "I did nothing wrong.”

After his second career F1 win, George Russell acknowledged that Red Bull and McLaren remain the strongest teams, but that Mercedes has made the necessary upgrades to get right behind them, ready to pick up the pieces after the kind of chaos that turned this grand prix on its head.

Russell caught some of the Verstappen-Norris fight on the big TV, he said, and knew there was a possibility they could knock themselves out. "You're always dreaming," he said.

“The team’s done an amazing job to get us in this fight, you gotta be there at the end to pick up the pieces," he said, adding that this unexpected win makes up for his mistakes in Canada, where he felt he could have won.

What a good time to read Luke's story about how Russell is growing into his new position as Mercedes' lead driver.

The key quote from George: “It definitely feels like something has clicked."

I think Piastri is going to run out of time to get Russell before the end. Two laps to go.

“We can win this!” Toto calls on the radio.

“Just let me f---g drive!” Russell says.

Oscar Piastri will take a real run at Russell these last few laps. Wow.

Take a breath, folks.

Wow. It was always going to happen sometime, Norris and Verstappen coming to blows. And at last it did. I can't believe it happened like that though. Norris is out of the race. Verstappen is back out in P5.