Austrian GP: Russell wins - but are Red Bull and Verstappen back?
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
The Athletic. The race is on, and George Russell finally took his second win of the season, but Max Verstappen posed a serious threat and finished just 1.6 seconds behind. But where did Red Bull's pace come from, and what happened to Ferrari's speed? I'm Ed Straw, and joining me here in Austria are John Noble and Val Hurungi. Well, John, fascinating race. Lots to talk about. So we'll get straight into it. We're in a bit of air conditioning, so we're OK at the moment. I guess there's two big stories here. George Russell getting that win, but Max Verstappen, while he didn't quite manage to win, he was right in the fight, very much in the hunt from fifth on the grid. Are he and Red Bull back in business?
They're back in business at a track like this.
What led to George Russell's victory at the Austrian Grand Prix?
I think we have to be quite careful that these generation of cars have got very different characteristics between them, power units, the deployment, the way they harvest, the way they use their batteries, the speed at the end of the straights, how they're managing the downforce and balancing that off with the power unit performance. how the IC is in relation to the batteries, all these different elements. So in these circumstances, the Red Bull is every bit a match for Mercedes with Ferrari a step back. The upgrade has made a step. It's come from both more downforce, better handling and a reduction of weight, which is free lap time. So that's worked super well for them. Coming from a long way back still, the points gap is massive.
So it's going to be quite difficult to say Max Verstappen and Red Bull are in this title fight. But we've seen from history in the past that teams can come from a long way back before the summer break, make that step forward. So I think we've got maybe a slightly different picture in terms of how we think the championship battle may pan out than we had two weeks ago.
I think the big thing is that the Mercedes is always there. So one week it's Ferrari who can do it. The next week it's Red Bull. So that's pretty good news, I think, still for Mercedes, because that's what you start to see. You'll see that people get closer and then one week it's one, one week it's another. But Mercedes is almost the fulcrum in that fight. But the fact that Verstappen, Val, came back from that Saturday crash, because it looked like he was going to... I think pole was beyond him, but he was trying to pull off a bit of a qualifying miracle. He'd had a good run getting through, only had three sets of soft tyres, fresh soft tyres for the whole of qualifying, got through Q2 just on a used set and then had that shunt.
But the way that he was able to bounce back in this upgraded car that's got a few interesting different... kind of objectives not necessarily i guess you could sort of say concept but some of the things they're trying to do aero wise there's a good gary anderson article that ran on the race that you can read about that i think it ran on saturday morning but that's a good bounce back from verstappen and red bull isn't it Yeah, very, very impressive. And I mean, obviously, his lap up to the point where he crashed would have been flattered by just how significant the track evo appeared to be between run one and run two. And in Q3, from just looking at it, we were being showered with purple sectors.
Basically, at that time, there was a huge gain for everybody involved, which is also what set up the... The possibility for George Russell to take pole while adhering to the way the yellow flag regulations are observed in Formula One. We're going to talk about that in the question section for anyone wondering about that. Indeed we are.
How did Max Verstappen's performance indicate Red Bull's resurgence?
But yeah, he wasn't going to be on pole, but clearly he was very, very rapid. He's probably the... the fastest driver differentiator of the weekend, specifically on race space, you would say. And this is not the first time that Verstappen, I don't want to say outperformed the car, because I don't like it when people say that, but I am going to say outperformed what you would normally expect the car to deliver, especially in race trim here.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–0:55
2
What led to George Russell's victory at the Austrian Grand Prix?
0:55–3:37
3
How did Max Verstappen's performance indicate Red Bull's resurgence?
3:37–12:09
4
What factors contributed to Ferrari's struggles during the race?
12:09–21:38
5
What was the controversy surrounding the yellow flag during qualifying?
21:38–32:15
6
How did team orders impact the Racing Bulls during the race?
32:15–38:48
7
What strategies did Mercedes employ to secure Russell's win?
38:48–57:20
8
What lessons were learned from the race regarding driver performance?
57:20–1:20:53
Speakers
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