Stroll wins while it’s raining penalties over the Red Bull Ring

Lance Stroll takes a dominant win again at Red Bull Ring ahead of Callum Ilott and Maximilian Günther. The Canadian brings home championship lead and hat trick during a race where a very few drivers have not been warned or penalized for failing to respect track limits.

Lance Stroll starts on pole ahead of Callum Ilott and Niko Kari.

At the start, Stroll flies away from Ilott who touches Kari at turn and the Finn goes wide. At turn two, David Beckmann spun after a contact with George Russell. The British driver gets damage after this contact and retires after the first lap.

At lap 2, the lead of the race consists of Stroll, Ilott, Kari and Joel Eriksson, Stroll on his own like yesterday.

Mikkel Jensen touches Alessio Lorandi while trying to overtake him, breaks suspension and goes in the gravel which makes the safety car go out.

At the restart, Stroll gets away from Ilott who gets away from Kari as well who defends from five other drivers and at the end of the hill, Maximilian Günther is up to third, Ben Barnicoat fourth, Eriksson fifth. Lorandi gets a drive through penalty for the incident with Jensen.

The marshals have a lot of work to judge all the track limits with almost half of the grid being shown the black and white flag and Arjun Maini is the first driver to get a drive through for this reason.

Unlike before the first safety car period, Ilott stays under 1.0s gap behind Stroll. Meanwhile, Kari overtakes Harrison Newey for P7 while Anthoine Hubert gets a drive through as well. Pedro Piquet and Harrison Newey also get drive through penalties for failing to respect track limits.

With ten minutes to go, things seem to settle down a bit. After serving a first drive through for failing to respect track limits, both Maini, Hubert and Lorandi will get a twenty-second-time penalty at the end of the race for the same reason as well as Nikita Mazepin and David Beckmann who did not serve a drive through earlier in the race.

Lance Stroll, one of the few drivers who have not been shown the black and white flag of the race, wins at scores the fastest lap at the end of the race. The podium of the race is the same than the current podium of the championship and Stroll leads with 166 points, ahead of Callum Ilott with 128 points and Maximilian Günther with 123 points.

The next race will be at the Norisring at the end of June, and this time, there will be no room for exceeding track limits.

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