2023-07-02 12:30:00
ESPN2 Jul 2023, 08:30 ETRead: 7 min.
Follow live the minute by minute of the Austrian Grand Prix in which Checo Pérez will start in fifteenth position
Lap 60 and Sainz maintains P3 over Checo Pérez who has been on the rear wing of the Ferrari for three laps.
Sainz fights back with pure engine power from the Red Bull. In corners he is clearly faster Czech, but the Ferrari has power.
Checo on Norris and the Mexican is fourth.
Bird, RB engineer to Pérez: “Watch out for the track limits. We cannot take a penalty. The entry and exit of turn 10 is the main concern.”
Czech fast lap: 1.08.111
Verstappen fastest lap: 1.08.150
Can Checo reach the podium? Sainz is 12 seconds away with 20 laps to go.
Check to pits. He goes on a hard tire, drops to fifth, behind Lando Norris.
Verstappen to pits. He goes in first and he goes out first. The champion put a new half tire.
Leclerc pits. He goes on a hard tire for the rest of the race and Checo gets P2.
Sainz to pits. He put on hard compound and paid the 5 second penalty. Czech P3, 12.9 seconds behind Leclerc.
Hamilton pitted and Checo is 4th. Follow the Ferrari, but something far.
Checo passes Alonso in the braking of the four. The Mexican is P6 and goes for Hamilton, who is 1.5 seconds away, with a hard tire of 26 turns once morest the Mexican’s average of 15.
Checo, for his part, is already seventh. He passed Gasly and Alonso continues. Tire situation: Checo with averages of 8 laps once morest Alonso, averages of 19 laps. The Aston Martin 8 seconds away.
Leclerc has defended as much as he can from Verstappen’s Red Bull, until turn three on lap 35. Max on a hard tire takes the lead once more.
Checo Pérez passes Russell and the man from Guadalajara is P8.
Sainz penalized with five seconds for track limits. While Hamilton loses P4 once morest Norris.
The Red Bulls quickly begin to pass: Verstappen for P3 to Sainz. and Checo by the P19 to Ocon.
Checo Perez to pits. The Mexican puts new media.
Verstappen to pits. In the 25 of 71 it goes from medium to hard. The champion’s Red Bull would have to go to another stop.
Warning for Sainz for track limits. One more and they will penalize you. Hamilton attacks Checo Pérez. Lewis has a five second penalty for exceeding the track limits.
Sergio Pérez and Carlos Sainz, in the middle of a fight to win positions.Getty Images
Carlos Sainz passes Checo Pérez for P3. The number 55 Ferrari is going really fast, at a better pace than Verstappen. But Max has a 20 second lead. Let’s see if Red Bull didn’t strategically beat the rest. If Verstappen can extend this stint past lap 35, it is possible to go to a stop…
What is the tire situation following these arrests? Red Bull continues with the starting means, they already have 17 laps. The Ferraris went for another set of media; Hamilton put hard like Norris, while Alonso opted for means; Gasly, Tsunoda and Russell with hard. That is the situation of the top 10.
Penalty for Hamilton for exceeding the track limit (following five times). Five seconds for the Briton, who is chasing Pérez through the Mexican’s P3.
The race restarted… Czech P3 with 13 laps on a medium tire.
Pits for the Ferraris and for the Aston Martins. Czech gets P3. Behind Leclerc.
Several cars take the opportunity to go for new tires, so Checo advances to P6.
VIRTUAL SAFETY CAR… to get Hulkenberg’s car out.
Checo Pérez, shot from DRS, attacks Gasly’s P8.
Abandonment of Nico Hulkenberg. It’s a pity for the German who has been doing good qualifications, but in the race the car either doesn’t keep up, or it breaks like today.
I check now 9th. He passed Albon and the Mexican already in the points zone. He paints a good comeback, a fifth or fourth place (Hulkenberg pitted and won that position as well).
Checo Pérez was able to overtake Russell and the Mexican is 11th. Follow the Williams of Albon.
Ferrari radio to Sainz: “Tell us regarding the pace,” Sainz replies: “I think you can see it. I don’t need to inform you.” The Spaniard is on the rear wing of Leclerc, who continues to defend P2.
Lap 7 of 71, DRS on. Checo Perez attacks Russell’s Mercedes.
Sainz attacks Leclerc. It seems that the man from Madrid is faster than his Monegasque teammate. We will see how Ferrari manages this.
Checo Pérez passed Ocon and the Mexican is P12.
Verstappen, fastest lap of 1.09.691, the only one who lowered the 10th minute. He already put 1.1 seconds on Leclerc’s Ferrari. The Dutchman wants to put distance for when the DRS is activated.
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Re started the competition, on the move and not from a standstill. Verstappen keeps the lead…
By the way, Alonso and Bottas started with the hard tyre, the rest with the medium compound.
Checo Perez is P13. When a Safety Car falls due to damage to Tsunoda’s car, he left parts of his car on the track and needs to be cleaned up.
THE AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX STARTED… Verstappen manages to hold the lead, but Leclerc came back to look for him at turn three and four…
There is a threat of rain for the race. We will have to pay attention to the weather conditions.
Before the Austrian anthem, a minute’s silence for Dilano van’t Hoff, an 18-year-old driver who died on Saturday in a racing accident in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. Also in memory of Dietrich Mateschitz, who owned the Red Bull team and who died last year.
The cars already in position on the starting grid. These are the three scenarios that envision Pirelli for the road:
Start with medium until round 18 or 24; then go hard to 44 or 50 and finish the race on a medium tire.
Start with media until 15 or 21; go hard to 40 or 46 and then another set of hard to finish.
A single stop option (interesting for Checo Perez): medium until 27 or 33 and then finish the competition with hard.
Checo might opt for a strategy of hard, medium and hard. Hard at the beginning to extend that first stint a bit; another would be to start with hard and then two stints with mediums, since Checo has three new sets of yellows. We’ll see…
The race is scheduled for 71 laps per Red Bull Ring of 4.3 kilometers, one of the smallest on the calendar. It hosted its first Grand Prix in 1970, before being taken over by Red Bullthe circuit was called A1 Ring.
Sergio Perez he was left out of round three of the classification for the fourth consecutive date. It is a very low moment for the Mexican driver, winner of six Grand Prix in the Formula 1 and three poles.
This caused the pilot from Guadalajara to start this Sunday in the fifteenth position of the Austrian Grand Prix, tenth date of the calendar of the highest category -although only nine have been run following the cancellation of San Marino-.
His partner will start from pole position in Red Bull, Max Verstappen. This is the starting grid:
VERSTAPPEN
Leclerc
Sainz
Norris
Hamilton
Stroll
Alonso
Hulkenberg
Gasly
Albon
Russell
Ocon
Plates
Bottas
CZECH PEREZ
Tsunoda
Zhou
Sargeant
Magnussen
DeVries
Checo Pérez will seek to climb positions in the Austrian GP.ESPN
Checo did not have a good classification, this time because he had three fastest laps canceled in Q2 for exceeding the track limits. In total, the FIA erased 47 laps in the entire qualifying session on Friday.
On Saturday, in the Sprint race, Checo finished second following a small but intense battle once morest Max Verstappen for the first position. In the end it was the Dutch world champion who took the eight points of the mini-race; Second Chec took seven.
Today it’s time to come back and we’ll see what the Mexican is capable of aboard the RB19. He Red Bull Ring It’s hard on tire wear but it has straights on which to approach other cars and then pass on the entrances to the corner. However, it is possible that the ‘DRS trains’ make passing difficult. Saturday’s mini-race left an intense race in terms of overtaking, but now the distance is greater and the drivers have to take care of their tyres, unlike mini-races when they go full throttle from the first lap and don’t worry regarding anything other than reach the goal as quickly as possible.
Checo is second in the world championship and has not been on the podium for three races. Today it is difficult to get that far, but many things can happen to open your way to the points.
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