00:01It's lights out and away we go! Verstappen gets the better start, Perez and Lando Norris jockeying for position.
00:08Verstappen leads them then into Turn 1 from Hamilton on the inside, Perez pushes Lando Norris wide.
00:13Also going wide is Charles Leclerc in his battle with Pierre Gasly.
00:18Now the long run up towards Turn 3 and there's four cars all fighting for position.
00:23And Leclerc has a damaged right front wing as well. There's a little bit of contact, we saw a piece coming off it.
00:29Perez, Perez Martin gets through into third and there's chaos at the back, Yuki Tsunoda and also Nicolas Latifi and Antonio Giovinazzi.
00:37Verstappen pulling away then, down to Turn 4 we go, round the outside Lando Norris wants third place back again.
00:43That's a bold move from him, Fernando Alonso gets all squirrelly coming out of Turn 5 and Lance Stroll's going to get interested there.
00:49Norris trying to put Lewis Hamilton under pressure but it's Verstappen out in front.
00:53And we're now going to see I think the first contact there, three a break, there we go.
00:57And then along the straight, this is a little bit clumsy going on here now.
01:01There's not enough space so left rear puncture for Gasly, bad judgement there for Charles Leclerc.
01:07You can see he's having to put bizarre staring angle into the car to keep it going straight.
01:12And to be honest, he's just trying to mind his own.
01:16Oh, that's four cars he's hit before Turn 3.
01:20What will be interesting is how Lando Norris now defends against Sergio Perez, who as you can see has DRS and he's starting to get a bit closer and he has not defended at all.
01:30Lando Norris just left the door open there for Sergio Perez to get past and Perez said thank you very much indeed.
01:38And that looked very much like they were running their own race with McLaren.
01:41Norris is going to try and fight him back around Turn 4 but Perez is far enough ahead to make that move stick.
01:48Looks like we're going to get a repeat action now.
01:52Yeah, well, let's have a look as we run towards Turn 3 and DRS for Valtteri Bottas and Lando Norris harvesting a little bit on that straight.
01:59Bottas sails past even before they get to the corner.
02:02The Monegasque versus the Frenchman in the Alpine there and the hard tire is working nice.
02:09Oh, that's so nearly went round Lewis.
02:12Yeah.
02:13Whoa, that's live as well, isn't it?
02:14Yep.
02:15So it's gone in all right.
02:16He's picked up the throttle and yeah, so oversteer and then he had to walk the car, he had to countersteer and as he was turning into the slide he walked the car into the gravel.
02:26George Russell into the pits and looking at plan B said Williams.
02:31So what goes on?
02:32It is a white stripe hard tire.
02:34That's not the fastest stop as he's got problems around the side pod area.
02:40You can see the mechanic working on the right hand side pod.
02:44Paul, could you see anything?
02:45I think it's pneumatic pressure.
02:47I could see the gas canister sitting at the side of it and that's how it works.
02:50You can explain that.
02:51There's a Red Bull in the pits.
02:52I'm just trying to see who it is.
02:53Perez.
02:54He had a front right blister but service is slow, it's slow.
02:57Yeah.
02:58We're left, we're left and on he goes.
03:00Mercedes may pounce on that.
03:02Bottas comes in then.
03:04George Russell's back in the pits as well.
03:06Hard tire goes on.
03:08Sergio Perez hasn't got to turn nine yet as you can see on your screen.
03:11This could be Mercedes being handed a net gain during the pit stops.
03:17Bottas gets to the end of the pit lane.
03:19He's got that inside line as you can see.
03:21Perez much faster on the track but he's not going to be fast enough.
03:24The fin has gone above Sergio Perez as they rejoin this race.
03:29That is George Russell out of the race.
03:31That is such a shame.
03:33He deserved better today.
03:35Here comes the Ferrari then of Charles Leclerc on the inside of Kimi Raikkonen.
03:40Doesn't put up much of a fight on the entry to that corner but gets really good traction out of it.
03:45That was super.
03:46Yeah, so tight and hilly into turn three there.
03:49He's coming back at him again, Charles Leclerc.
03:51Oh, and that was very nearly contact between Raikkonen and Leclerc.
03:55Looked so, so close from the angle we were watching.
03:59There's the championship points at the moment.
04:01Hamilton picking up 19 because of that fastest lap.
04:04As down the inside goes Charles Leclerc on the Aston Martin.
04:07Sebastian Vettel moves over to cut across him.
04:10You could see how that Ferrari was affected by the turbulence coming off the Aston Martin there.
04:15Huge vibrations but it didn't stop Leclerc taking that place from Sebastian Vettel
04:20who then locks up for good measure going into the hairpin.
04:25And Leclerc really very much on a charge.
04:28Alonso's tyres quite old, jinking around but he has left at least a car's width and that's going to get tight.
04:34Oh, it's not the first time this afternoon that things have got a bit tight for Charles Leclerc as well.
04:40Here comes the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.
04:43Dives down the inside on Lance Stroll who offered a gap on that inside and Charles Leclerc took it.
04:50And I don't think the Aston Martin driver really felt he was going to defend for long there
04:54but gets into the slipstream behind the Ferrari to try and fight this back into Turn 4 as has happened before.
05:00Leclerc's got DRS and he can make the move stick.
05:04OK, Liz, so box box.
05:06We're going for fastest lap.
05:07So this is just in case there's also a safety car or rain or whatever
05:13and got to nick the fastest lap point back for the team and the driver.
05:18This is going to be quite a dramatic last lap here.
05:21Dramatic for Lewis Hamilton as he goes for the fastest lap of the race.
05:24Dramatic for Valtteri Bottas who's now got Sergio Perez right behind him and no cars in between.
05:30DRS zone for Sergio Perez coming up after Turn 3.
05:34I think he's a bit too far back at this moment.
05:36Can he get below one second?
05:38His teammate Max Verstappen slows down to take the chequered flag
05:43and absolutely crush the opposition here at the Red Bull ring.
05:47He wins the Styrian Grand Prix.
05:50Max Verstappen for the third time winning here in the Styrian Hills.
05:54Hamilton on the charge for the fastest lap.
05:57Here's his teammate Valtteri Bottas trying to hold off Sergio Perez.
06:01Perez lost a position here before right at the line with damage to his front wing.
06:06He is going to go all the way to the line now to try and make up a place in 2021.
06:11Hamilton's got a couple of corners to go.
06:13How Bottas wishes he only had a couple of corners to go.
06:16Hamilton takes second place and does get the fastest lap of the race.
06:20Bottas now trying to get the power down to keep Sergio Perez at bay.
06:25Is it going to be Bottas on the podium?
06:27Yes, it is. Valtteri Bottas takes third.
06:30Sergio Perez fourth and only half a second behind at the end
06:34when at one stage he was 19 seconds behind.
06:37Double champions.
06:39Mercedes and their drivers for the last seven years.
06:42But the margin of victory today for Red Bull.
06:45Is this a red letter day at the Red Bull ring for the championship in 2021?
