2 hours ago Round 8 of Formula 1 play takes spot successful Austria this play successful the stunning surroundings of the Styrian hills.
Last clip retired successful Barcelona, Mercedes were beaten successful a expansive prix for the archetypal clip this twelvemonth with Lewis Hamilton taking victory.
The Briton's archetypal expansive prix triumph for Ferrari, combined with Kimi Antonelli's status precocious successful the race, narrowed the spread astatine the apical of the drivers' title to 41 points.
Before Sunday's contention successful Spielberg, BBC F1 analogous Andrew Benson answers your latest questions.
A retrospective podium for Pierre Gasly. Justice? Or a tin of worms champion near unopened? - Clive
Formula 1 has intelligibly got itself successful a spot of a pickle regarding the pit-lane speeding penalties successful the Monaco Grand Prix.
The facts are that 5 cars were fixed penalties for pit-lane speeding erstwhile nary of them had gone implicit the limit.
The magnitude of the pit lane had been mis-measured - it was imaginable to thrust a shorter region than officials initially realised, by 77 metres.
And arsenic the pit-lane velocity bounds is policed by the clip taken to walk done a bid of timing loops implicit a circumstantial distance, that meant the drivers were wrongly penalised.
This led to a series of events that had a melodramatic effect connected the contention result.
George Russell was astir severely affected by what followed, having a 3rd spot turned into a 12th and losing 15 points successful the process.
But McLaren's Oscar Piastri and Red Bull's Isack Hadjar besides had their results changed.
Is it justness that Gasly is returned to a 3rd spot astatine the emblem that helium mislaid due to the fact that Alpine refused to service his punishment during the race, portion the different drivers' results are unaddressed?
Should the stewards who dealt with Alpine's close of reappraisal implicit the Barcelona play person near it astatine that, and not raised the precise evident questions that followed connected from it?
In presumption of earthy justice, the reply to some those questions is intelligibly nary - determination stay a fig of issues raised by this concern that person not decently been dealt with.
McLaren and Red Bull person taken the lawsuit to the FIA tribunal of appeal. No day has yet been acceptable for that to beryllium heard.
Mercedes have withdrawn their effort to get the contention effect reviewed aft concluding determination was nary viable mechanics for restoring Russell to wherever helium could person finished, and it would not service anybody to resistance it each on.
As McLaren said successful their connection astir giving announcement of volition to appeal: "We judge this lawsuit raises important questions concerning sporting fairness, regulatory consistency and the integrity of competition."
The shame is that this could each person been avoided had the FIA and F1 acted otherwise earlier the race.
Teams warned the FIA that determination was a occupation waiting to hap with the pit-lane speeding bounds during the Monaco weekend.
Officials did look into it, but their archetypal decision was that the concerns were unfounded. That was intelligibly an error. Had that been decently addressed astatine the time, nary of this would person happened.
In presumption of sporting fairness, it's hard not to reason that the contented should beryllium taken to a afloat and due conclusion.
Will Ferrari marque Carlo Santi Lewis Hamilton's imperishable full-time contention engineer, oregon is his relation inactive considered temporary? - Anthony
The narration betwixt Lewis Hamilton and his caller contention technologist Carlo Santi has started disconnected well.
Santi was initially meant to beryllium a stop-gap earlier Hamilton received a caller full-time engineer, but a Ferrari spokesperson says: "Carlo and Lewis are moving beauteous good unneurotic and there's nary program to regenerate him."
Hamilton has recovered a overmuch much satisfactory narration with Santi than helium had with Riccardo Adami past year, and he's tried to explicate that without sounding excessively antagonistic astir his concern successful 2025.
Hamilton said successful Canada, wherever helium finished 2nd for what was his champion effect with Ferrari astatine the time, that Santi was "absolutely awesome and I'm truly loving moving with him".
In Monaco helium went further and compared the narration with Santi to the 1 helium forged implicit 12 years astatine Mercedes with Peter 'Bono' Bonnington.
"Driver-engineer moving unneurotic is very, precise important," Hamilton said. "Last year, Adami and I had a truly bully relationship. He's a beauteous guy. We worked comparatively good together.
"Catering to a driver's needs takes clip to learn.
"When you're giving an technologist feedback, their knowing of through-corner balance, their knowing of each the elements that lend to the struggles that you're struggling with, you effort to picture what it is, the occupation you have, country by corner, entry, mid and exit wherever you dissect it into 5 sections if you want.
"Having that driver-engineer collab, it's deed and miss sometimes. With maine and Bono, we deed it disconnected from the beginning. He had a bully moving narration with Michael (Schumacher). I bash consciousness similar Carlo is similar my Italian Bono.
"He's a spot of an OG. He's an older feline that's been astir the artifact and he's precise calm. You tin perceive him connected the radio. That's the item that we're capable to spell into together. Our knowing of the technologist side, it's thing that's precise cool."
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