AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX 2021

Original Race dates: Jul 2 - 4

Track: Red Bull Ring

This was a super exciting race that flew by with constant action and really great driving, people constantly challenging each other! Wow!

Free Practice 1

• Expecting 100,000 fans there this weekend! Most of them Maxy fans, yay!!

• Yikes they’re talking about Yuki needing a good race and how Gasly is making Yuki look even worse because Gasly is doing so fantastic

• Tsunoda in the gravel nine minutes into the session and Karun says it’s just unnecessary

• Lance spins

• Lance spins again and everyone is like ok what’s going on

• Kimi on a fast lap and Mazepin gets in his way on a corner and Kimi flips him off

• A lot if F2 drivers in for the session! Zhou was in for Alonso, Callum Ilott was in for Gio, and Roy Nissani was in for George Russell

• They were on a camera watching Charles drive and at the end, Charles waved at the camera and they figured out that he must’ve seen the giant tv screen as he was driving and everyone was so impressed and it was so cute

Free practice 2

• starts raining during the session

• Finally Hamilton goes off into the gravel during the rain and I always love that

Free Practice 3

• literally RIGHT when this broadcast started before they were even done with the opening stuff, they announced that Hamilton signed another 2 year contract NOOOOOOO so now we have to deal with 2 more years of him at minimum when there was a real chance he could leave. I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up but ugh I am so disappointed. He’s never gonna leave. He will be 38 by the time this contract runs out. UGHHHHHHHHH

• I have SERIOUS issues with the commentators this session who start off by saying that they think that Charles should have gotten a penalty last race for the first lap hitting Gasly and it’s like they only cut to Charles or talk about him to be negative about him and I am so annoyed

• When Max goes out, the whole Dutch stand gets on their feet and sets off orange smoke and it’s just such a beautiful sight and you can almost hear the roar

• Yuki having some offs into the gravel

• Mazepin has some offs too of course

• Lots of new talk about contract renewals and rumors going around since this Hamilton deal changes everything

• Christian Horner says he thinks the contract talks with Perez will be short (in a good way)

Qualifying

• The Max fans are WILD and I am loving it! You can constantly hear their roaring and dancing!! Absolutely inspiring to see them all celebrating Max and that’s exactly what I need in this sport. It’s so beautiful, I’m going to cry

• Max does a beautiful out lap and first time in Q1 with everyone cheering and the whole place is full of orange

• Some people have had their laps deleted for track limits in Q1, including Gasly and a Leclerc

• Somehow Alonso jumped up to P3 in Q1 while Ocon is down in 17th and it’s just crazy, nobody knows how Alo got up there and Ocon just looks ridiculous

• This was a down to the wire Q1! Really awesome! Ended up with Ocon being out in Q1 for the second week in a row after Alo was awesome

• Out in Q1: Raikkonen, Ocon, Latifi, Schumacher and Mazepin

• High tension Q2!!

• GEORGE RUSSELL FINALLY MAKES IT INTO Q3 FOR THE FIRST TIME ON PACE!! So happy for Williams! This is huge for them! How awesome!!

• Unfortunately both Ferrari’s are out of Q2 because of their tire choice but go figure, they can’t strategize

• Alonso blocked by Seb to start his final lap and Alo is furious and Seb puts his hands up to say sorry but they think Seb will get a penalty for sure

• Out in Q2: Sainz, Leclerc, Ricciardo, Alonso and Gio

• Max sets an excellent first lap in Q3 and then Lando in second! Max doesn’t improve on his first lap and it looks like Lando is going to steal pole but then Max does a purple last sector and gets pole!! And everyone roars!

• Max on pole!!! Lando in second, Perez in third!! Officially no Mercedes in the post qualifying interviews and it’s one of the best and most exciting qualifyings ever!!

• Everyone cheers for all three boys who got the top three qualifying spots!

Race

• Seb got a penalty for getting in Alonso’s way during qualifying

• Ocon is starting right in the same row as Latifi how embarrassing

• Perez holds off Hamilton on the first lap and Max holds the lead

• Safety car by the end of the first lap because Estaban Ocon got squeezed by Gio and Schumacher and so he only made it like three corners HA how incredible

• I actually don’t this this one was Ocon’s fault because he had nowhere to go but I’m happy to blame him because I don’t like him

• On the safety car restart Perez pushes Lando off the track but then Lando pushes him back later onto the gravel and he loses six or seven places because of it. Perez says Norris pushed him off but it was just a mess and a racing incident

• Bottas got ahead on the restart but then when they cut back to them Lewis is back ahead. They are so not free to race

• Gio under investigation for overtaking before the safety car line and gets a five second time penalty

• Perez and Lando under investigation and Lando gets a five second Penalty which is ridiculous because it was just racing

• Yuki under investigation for crossing white line to pit entry and gets a five second time penalty

• Charles pulls a really great over under move to get past Perez into 6th

• Bot jumps Lando in the pits because Lando has to serve his time penalty

• Lando reports that Hamilton’s brakes look like they’re on fire

• 41/71 Charles catches Perez and tries to pass him but Perez drives right into him and pushes him off and Charles is angry

• Perez and Charles under investigation for Perez pushing Charles off and he’s given a five second time penalty oh my gosh

• Then Charles tries to go past Perez and he almost gets in the gravel again and Charles is furious

• Hamilton has damage from going over curbs which is great so then they give Bottas permission to race Hamilton. Disgusting

• Black and white flag for Mazepin for exceeding track limits

• Lando passes Hamilton for third on pure pace! Awesome!! After a penalty and everything

• Perez gets ANOTHER five second penalty for pushing Charles off the track AGAIN

• Lance stroll gets a five second penalty for speeding in the pit lane

• Yuki gets ANOTHER 5 second time penalty for crossing the pit lane line AGAIN! Same thing!! Just like Perez has been penalized twice for the same thing twice this race! This race is outrageous for penalties! There’s been at least seven so far

• Kimi gets a black and white flag for track limits

• Charles gets close to the back of Daniel ricciardo but no contact fortunately in the battle for sixth

• Battle for tenth is Alonso trying to pass Russell and it’s heartbreaking when Alo passes him because once again George almost got his first point but not today

• Sainz gets past Daniel for sixth on the last lap and we are never gonna hear the end of it

• Vettel and Kimi hit each other and hit the gravel together on the last lap right when Max is going round the final corners and that scares me

• Perez finishes sixth even with two penalties, amazing

• MAX WINS YAAAAAAAY I haven’t seen this amount of frantic frenzied celebrations since Charles won at Monza! The whole Red Bull ring is full of orange smoke and it’s a complete frenzy, everyone roaring for Max, it’s truly and properly epic!!! These scenes are truly amazing

• Bottas in second and Lando in third!! And no Hamilton on the podium. AWESOME