Verstappen wins in Austria as Vettel grabs lead in standings

Max Verstappen made the most of a rare Mercedes double retirement on Sunday by claiming his first win this year, and Red Bull's first at "home", in an incident-packed Austrian Grand Prix.

The Dutch tyro grabbed victory after both Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas pulled up with power and gearbox failures respectively as their team's run of four straight Austrian wins came to an abrupt end at the Red Bull Ring where the track temperature was 48 celsius degrees (118 Fahrenheit).

"It's amazing to win in a Red Bull at the Red Bull Ring," said Verstappen, who was supported by an "Orange army" of more than 20,000 fans.

"Very hard to manage the tyres, lot of blistering, but we manged to hang on," he said. "It was amazing to win here with so many Dutch fans."
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"I told Max he had a very good race," said Vettel. "Very consistent. No mistakes. It was damage limitation for me and a positive day." Raikkonen said: "I had to back off at turn one because the cars were squeezed together. After that, the car came good, but we just ran out of laps."
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