Formula 1 Austria F1 Mercedes driver Bottas fought off a Ferrari to secure the win by only six tenths of a moment.

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Valtteri Bottas held his nerve against a charging Sebastian Vettel to assert his second Formula 1 triumph in the Austrian Grand Prix.

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Mercedes driver Bottas fought off a late assault from the Ferrari to secure the win by only six tenths of a moment.

Vettel still stretched out his title prompt 22 focuses over Lewis Hamilton, who recuperated well from eighth on the matrix after his gearbox-change punishment yet was denied a platform by Daniel Ricciardo.

Bottas made a lightning getaway from post position to serenely lead Vettel into the principal corner, in spite of the fact that his begin was so great it provoked an examination concerning whether he had bounced it.

He needed to hold up 20 laps to be cleared - with the survey uncovering his response to the lights changing was only 0.2s - and at this point had extended his prompt 7.6s over the pursuing Ferrari.

Bottas ran a long opening spell, in the long run setting on lap 41 of 71 and developing with a diminished lead of only 2.5s.

Vettel occupied with an ebbing-and-streaming quest for Bottas, arousing late on and getting inside DRS extend however in the end missing the mark.

A forceful first lap set Ricciardo on his way to his fifth platform in succession.

Ricciardo assaulted Kimi Raikkonen into Turn 1 however needed to proceed with the move as far as possible up the slope into Turn 3, in the long run asserting the place and driving the Ferrari wide all the while.

Raikkonen dropped behind Romain Grosjean's Haas because of Ricciardo's turn, and it took two laps for the works Ferrari to at long last make it past the client auto at Turn 4.

The longest first stretch of any of the leaders implied Raikkonen, who ceased on lap 44, fell behind the recouping Hamilton as the procedures played out.
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Hamilton had been skilled a place toward the begin by a grasp related poor getaway from Max Verstappen, and worked his way past Sergio Perez's Force India and Grosjean in the opening spell also.

He griped about his tires once he swapped his super-softs for ultra-softs, yet charged in the end arranges and got inside DRS scope of Ricciardo with three laps to go - however he couldn't discover a route past.

Raikkonen completed a forlorn fifth, while Grosjean scored his best aftereffect of the season with 6th.

Behind Grosjean came the two Force Indias, with Perez driving Esteban Ocon, while Williams team Felipe Massa and Lance Stroll dashed into the focuses after a dreary qualifying left them seventeenth and eighteenth on the matrix.

They were helped by a first-lap crash that was caused when Verstappen began gradually from fifth on the network and was gathered at Turn 1 by Fernando Alonso, whose McLaren had been raise finished by Daniil Kvyat.

The Toro Rosso driver was given a drive-through punishment for the episode, which prompted Verstappen halting further round the lap and Alonso coming back to the pits instantly with terminal harm.

Kevin Magnussen, who whined of no power guiding, and Carlos Sainz Jr were the main different retirements.
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Hi guys who would you think will sit in Ferrari cockpit next year?
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Carlos Saints or Max Verstappen. Ferrari have the money to buy most drivers out of their contracts. Just depends if Red Bull will be willing to play ball.

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