Metal structure falls on track ahead of F1 race in Austria
29 June 2025 15:11
SPIEALBERG, AUSTRIA(dpa)A recovery lorry hit a metal advertising bridge on the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg before the Formula One Austrian Grand Prix and the structure crashed to the ground.According to the Austrian news agency APA, the accident happened after the Formula Two race on Sunday morning after the first turn.According to the fire brigade, nobody was injured. Emergency services were on site a few hours before the 11th F1 race of the season to remove the debris as quickly as possible.Pictures showed, among other things, that a tractor and a lorry were at the affected site.
The start of the Porsche Supercup had to be temporarily postponed, but the F1 race remains scheduled to start at 1300 GMT with Lando Norris of McLaren on pole position.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Gulf Today
22 minutes ago
- Gulf Today
Norris resists Piastri to lead dominant McLaren 1-2 at Austria GP
Lando Norris resisted vigorous attacks from team-mate and championship leader Oscar Piastri to claim a masterful McLaren 1-2 in Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix. In torrid heat at the Red Bull Ring, the 25-year-old Briton came home 2.695 seconds clear of the 24-year-old Australian to trim his lead in the title race by 15 points It was Norris's first win in Austria, his third win this year and the seventh of his career. It was McLaren's first win in Austria since David Coulthard triumphed in 2001. The McLaren pair battled throughout the race to provide thrilling racing for the packed crowd and put behind them their collision in Canada two weeks earlier. Charles Leclerc was third ahead of his Ferrari team-mate seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, their best result of the year, with George Russell finishing fifth for Mercedes. 'It was a tough race,' said Norris. 'Pushing the whole way through... tricky, hot, tiring, but the perfect result for us as a team, a 1-2 again. We had a great battle, that's for sure.' For Piastri, it was equally demanding. 'Intense!' he said. 'Hard work': 'I hope it was good watching because from inside the car it was hard work. Yeah, I tried my absolute best.' Liam Lawson came in a career-best sixth for RB on a desultory day for the senior Red Bull team after four-time champion Max Verstappen retired on the opening lap after being hit by Mercedes' teenage rookie Kimi Antonelli. He is now 61 points behind Piastri. Two-time champion Fernando Alonso was seventh ahead of Gabriel Bortoleto and his Sauber team-mate Nico Hulkenberg, the future Audi outfit showing their huge potential, with Esteban Ocon finishing 10th for Haas. After a frantic prelude, during which Carlos Sainz's Williams failed to leave the grid and then caught fire in the pit lane, the race was delayed for 10 minutes - before delivering immediate drama at the second attempt. Norris made a clean start while, behind him, Piastri passed Leclerc on the outside of Turn One before Antonelli locked up and lost control at Turn Three and hit Verstappen's Red Bull. A safety car was deployed as both drivers retired on lap one ending, for the defending champion a run of 31 races in the points. 'I got hit,' said the Dutchman on team radio. The teenage rookie apologised. 'I locked the rear. Sorry about that,' he told Mercedes. The race resumed after a two-minute slowdown and Norris was forced immediately to defend as Piastri, looking sharp, attacked as also did Russell on Hamilton for fourth. Both were thwarted by defensive driving. By lap 12, the McLaren duo were four seconds clear and delivering a show of their own. Unhampered by any embarrassing hangovers from their collision in Montreal, they raced side by side and wheel to wheel, but each time the Australian attacked, the Briton hung on. In scorching heat of 32 degrees (air) and 55 (track), it was a perfect advertisement for the historic venue in the Styrian Alps which had secured a 16-year contract extension to 2041 before the race. Norris pitted, taking hards, after surviving another Piastri lunge, at turn four, on lap 20. Piastri then followed suit, emerging fourth until Leclerc pitted. After the leaders out on track also changed tyres Norris led Piastri by 6.5 seconds. Red Bull's misery intensified on lap 30 when Yuki Tsunoda hit Colapinto, sending both to the pits for repairs. Agence France-Presse
Al Etihad
13 hours ago
- Al Etihad
Former supremo Ecclestone makes F1 podium debut at 94
29 June 2025 21:54 SPIELBERG (Reuters) Bernie Ecclestone, the former Formula One supremo who rarely stayed to watch races beyond halfway when he was in charge, made his first grand prix podium appearance at the age of 94 in Austria on Briton was present at the Red Bull Ring to hand out a medal on behalf of the president of the governing FIA, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, to McLaren's race winner Lando Norris. Norris hopped off the top step of the podium so that he would be standing at the same level as his diminutive compatriot."I think it's really nice that the president gives a personal congratulations to the winning competitor," said Ecclestone, who ran the commercial side of the sport for some 40 years until being ousted in 2017."As he could not attend the race here in Austria, he asked me to present his medal for him which I am pleased and honoured to do."It was also great to be there as, though it might seem strange, this was the first time in almost 70 years in this sport that I've actually been on the podium."Norris won Formula One's 1,136th championship grand prix and Ecclestone attended the first at Silverstone in once said he left races soon after the start because by then his business was done. The President's Medal was first presented to Red Bull's Max Verstappen at the season-ending 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and each one carries the race number and highlights the event's history.
Dubai Eye
14 hours ago
- Dubai Eye
Norris cuts Piastri's lead with one-two win in Austria
Lando Norris won the Austrian Grand Prix from pole position in a McLaren one-two on Sunday after fending off championship-leading team mate Oscar Piastri in an early wheel-to-wheel duel and then withstanding intense pressure to the end. The Briton's third victory of the season cut Australian Piastri's Formula One lead from 22 to 15 points after 11 of 24 rounds, with the two McLaren drivers locked in an increasingly private title battle. Charles Leclerc completed the podium for Ferrari with team mate Lewis Hamilton fourth and George Russell, last year's winner in Austria, fifth for Mercedes. Red Bull's four-times world champion Max Verstappen suffered his first retirement of the season, in his team's home race, after a first-lap collision with Mercedes's Italian rookie Kimi Antonelli. The Dutch driver stayed third overall but is now 61 points behind Piastri. "Tricky, hot, tiring," said Norris after stepping out of the car at the finish of the 70-lap race on a sweltering Sunday. "A lot of stress but a lot of fun. A nice battle, so well done to Oscar. "Hopefully it was a nice one for everyone to watch but inside the car it was tough, especially when he was in DRS (drag reduction range)." Piastri, who seized second place from Leclerc after an aborted first start, set the fastest lap of the race. He took the lead momentarily on lap 11 in an intense battle but Norris grabbed it straight back in a duel that risked a repeat of the collision between the pair at the previous race in Canada. Norris caused that one, and came away empty-handed, but this time it was Piastri who had the McLaren bosses shifting uneasily on the pitwall when he locked up with a puff of smoke on lap 20 while seeking to sneak through on the inside. New Zealander Liam Lawson took a career-best finish in sixth for Racing Bulls with Fernando Alonso seventh for Aston Martin -- the Spaniard finishing ahead of the Brazilian rookie he manages, Sauber's Gabriel Bortoleto. The points were Bortoleto's first in F1 and to make it even sweeter Sauber took a double points finish, with Nico Hulkenberg finishing ninth. Hulkenberg was the first Sauber driver since Valtteri Bottas in 2022 to score in three races in a row. Esteban Ocon took the final point for Haas. McLaren are 207 points clear of Ferrari, who moved back up to second in the absence of team boss Fred Vasseur who had to return home for personal reasons, in the constructors' championship.
