Max Verstappen escapes post-race penalty to win thrilling Austrian Grand Prix

An assuaged Max Verstappen got away from a three-hour post-race audit over his last-wheeze conflict with Charles Leclerc to win an exciting Austrian Grand Prix.

Verstappen took the checkered banner at the Red Bull Ring after a late pass on the Ferrari driver, who began on shaft and had been cruising for quite a bit of this race.

The Red Bull celebrity, gived a shout out to by a large number of Dutch fans in sweltering conditions, hoped to have denied Leclerc a lady win after an epic tussle.

The two 21-year-olds went wheel-to-wheel in a splendid finale, before Verstappen's quarrelsome move at Turn 3 on lap 69 of 71.

The stewards promptly noticed the choice after Leclerc surrendered the corner and was constrained off the Red Bull Ring track.

"What the heck is that?" Leclerc hollered over the group radio after the Dutchman's turn.

In ludicrous scenes, it took F1's administering body the FIA more than three hours after the race to declare their choice.

The stewards, having pondered for quite a while and addressed the two drivers, eventually chose no further activity was required.

It is a to some degree dubious choice after the game's rulers punished Sebastian Vettel for a comparable episode that denied him a success in Canada this month.

"It is hard hustling, else we need to remain at home," said Verstappen, who has now won consecutive races in Austria.

"On the off chance that those things are not permitted in hustling, at that point what is the point in being in Formula One.

"After that begin I thought the race was finished, yet we simply continued pushing hard.

"You could see we had great pace on the directly to make the pass. I'm enchanted for the group."

Verstappen had begun behind Leclerc in second on the lattice however dropped to seventh after a poor begin off the line.

Yet, the adolescent, who triumphed on Red Bull's home turf here a year ago, rapidly battled his way through the field.

The Dutch sensation passed Sebastian Vettel, Valtteri Bottas lastly Leclerc in a dazzling end to the race.

Bottas finished the platform yet it was an intense race for Mercedes as Lewis Hamilton got back home in a modest fifth.

The day has a place with Verstappen, belatedly yet deservedly along these lines, as Red Bull end Mercedes' 10-race series of wins.

For his kindred celebrity Leclerc, the hang tight for a lady F1 triumph pursues the antagonistic episode finished his expectations of winning.

"I let the stewards choose, however for me in the vehicle it was entirely clear," said Leclerc. "I don't have the foggiest idea what it looked like outwardly, yet we will see.

"I was outwardly simply like the lap previously, it was fine since he left the space for the exit on the corner.

"However, he didn't on the following lap, so we contacted and I needed to go wide and after that clearly I didn't get another opportunity to go back, so it's a disgrace."

After a weekend ago's dull French Grand Prix, Formula One expected to put on a show and it properly conveyed.

Anyway this begging to be proven wrong choice puts one more cover over the game and hoses what had been an exciting end to the race.

The season so far has been overwhelmed by Hamilton yet the five-time best on the planet persevered through a disappointing evening.

Hamilton had been hoping to verify his fifth win straight yet passed up a platform just because this year.

The Briton's wretchedness was exacerbated late on when furious title rival Vettel figured out how to stretch out beyond the Mercedes to verify fourth.

Somewhere else, British adolescent Lando Norris completed 6th for McLaren, equalling his profession best.

Hamilton heads to his home race at Silverstone in about fourteen days' time, 31 points clear of Bottas in the title.

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