Norris, Piastri finish one-two after Verstappen crashes out of Austrian Grand Prix on first lap

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Updated June 30, 2025 — 12.47am

Lando Norris won the Austrian Grand Prix from pole position in a McLaren one-two on Sunday after fending off championship-leading teammate Oscar Piastri.

The Briton’s third victory of the season cut Australian Piastri’s Formula 1 lead from 22 to 15 points after 11 of 24 rounds, with the two McLaren drivers increasingly in a battle of their own.

Charles Leclerc completed the podium for Ferrari with teammate Lewis Hamilton fourth and George Russell fifth for Mercedes.

Oscar Piastri tries to chase down teammate Lando Norris.

The race got away to an eventful start when Red Bull’s Max Verstappen suffered his first retirement of the Formula 1 season after a collision with Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli on the opening lap of his team’s home grand prix.

The four-times world champion had started seventh on the grid, with Italian rookie Antonelli ninth, at a circuit where he has won a record five times.

Antonelli, who clearly caused the turn three collision, also retired and the safety car was deployed.

“I’m out – I got hit like crazy,” Verstappen, third in the championship going into the race, said over the team radio.

“Sorry about that – I locked the rear,” Antonelli told his team.

Action from the opening lap of the race – moments before Max Verstappen (far left) crashed out.

The retirement ended a run of 31 grands prix in the points for the Dutch driver, whose fans throng in their thousands to the Red Bull Ring.

The race had started later than scheduled after Carlos Sainz’s Williams was stuck on the grid as cars moved away for the formation lap.

Worse was to come for Sainz, whose rear brakes caught fire when he pulled into the pit lane, forcing Williams mechanics and track marshals to use fire extinguishers. That ended Sainz’s race before it even began. He had been due to start 19th.

It was the second time Sainz’s car had caught fire at the Spielberg track. Sainz – then driving for Ferrari – was forced to retire on the 56th lap of the 2022 Austrian Grand Prix after his car caught fire. The driver escaped unscathed on both occasions.

AP, Reuters