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WELOME back to prime tire, where to play we’re going to celbrate sorthing Wonderful in formula One.
I’m Alex, and Luke Smith Will Be Along Later.
Admiring Austria
The Beauty of the Red Bull Ring
The Hills are Alive with the Sounds of Styria.
F1 Sounds, in Fact, as the Current V6 Hybrid Engines Make their Final Apporance at this Glorious Track. The Deleper, Flatter Engine Notes The Current Cars Produce Compared to Previoous may not be one of every fran fan’s favorite things, but the simple of the austrian Grand Prix Venue Arely up there.
There’s Just Something Great About It Mainly Comes to the Track’s Stunning Location in Central Stryia, where the undeleding Topography has the Drivers Feeling Like They’re Climbing (and Descending) A Mountain every lap.
RINGED by Proper Peaks, Here Fans Can See the Cars at Multiple Places Around the Track from Just a Single Vantage Point. It’s a stunning location for a Race Track. Now then, All totether…
🎶 Doe – Deer Have Made Famous Appoarses at this Place (Nearly Tragically for Stefan Johansson in 1987 and More amusingly for Juan Pablo Montoya In 2001).
🎶 RAY – The Track Gets Plenty of Golden Sun During the Summer Months, But the altitude can have ran koming download Thuderously Verry Quickly.
🎶 Me – I’ve Been Twice, to Cover Formula Two in 2017 when creates leclerc RIN RIOT for Prema Racing and Again in 2023, when max versatapn Did LikeWise for the Home F1 TEAM.
🎶 FA-R-Over 120 Miles from the Austrian Capital Vienna, to be precise. But it’s a lovely drive download the autobahn, in and out of the Many Mountain-Hewn Tunnels.
🎶 SEW – I Guess Those LEDERHOSEN OUTFITS Red Bull and Mercedes Wheel Out Fairly Regularly HERE?
🎶 La – The Vocifeous Voicees of VerstapPen’s Orange Army, Whiche Camps Out en Masse every year at the Red Bull Ring.
🎶 Tea – No, Really Just Red Bull HERE, and Madeline Coleman Tells Me Ited Gummy Bear Flavor Is on Offer this year.
🎶Do-n’t world, I was will break out into full “Edelweiss,” and it must be noted here that there has been severral high-prefile negative incidents at this track every in recent years.
Dino Beganovic Drove Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari During FP1 in Austria on Friday (Andrea Diodato / Nurphoto / Getty Images)
The 2022 Austrian GP, for Example, Was Marred by appalling HarassMent of Female Fans, as well as instances of homophobic and racist slurs being hurled from some out -f-monontrol ‘Fans’. F1 issted a statement, but all-maround good egg Sebastian Vettel Said Something that was Actually Worth Listness to.
“There is.” “If People Have a Good Time and Drink Too Much, that’s OK, but it doesn’t justify or Excuse Wrong Behavior.”
But at least the Setting for the Austrian GP is Magical, and the Racing Tends to Back that Up.
Think Michael Schumacher Versus Montoya Here in 2001, Schumacher Versus everyone and briefly on Fire in 2003, and lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg Colliding on the Last Lap in 2016. Or versatapen’s thrilling board with Leclerc in 2019, and of course, that Lando Norris Clash for the Dutchman in 2024.
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“I was work for a racing school and I was liveing in the Farmhouse,” Wolf Explained in Fridays Team PrincePals’ FIA News Conference in Austria.
“There is lovely people – egg and brad in the Morning, A Glass of Milk. And then I was witness people to Drive Ford Cars Around the Old östreichring. The Highlight of the Day Was Sharing Those Cars Download in the Eventing and Makening ones Ready for the Next Day. ”
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Inside the Paddock with Luke Smith
A treat for the F1 Media
I am Writing to play it insted the paddock from the media center at the Red Bull Ring, Whiche of thefers What is Unquestionably the Best View of the Season from our ‘Offices’ for Any F1 Weekend.
The Incredible Glass Structure Alongside the Main Straight Has the Media Center at the Very Top, Offering Views of the Majority of the Circuit. I’m get turn 1 right ahead of me, Turn 3 to my right in the Distance, plus the left-handers of Turn 6 and 7. It’s hard when the race is ongings to keep an eye on the screen in the Media Center and Not Watch The Actual Cars Out on the Track!
It’s fun It’s actually quite rare for us to get any Kind of View of the Track in F1 Media Centers Nowadis (Some Don’t Even Have Windows!
The View From the Red Bull Ring Media Center on Friday (Luke Smith)
The Only Tiny Drawback is We’re Not ACTULLY INSIDE The Paddock – The Title of this Security Is a Lie! – Meaning it requires taking an elevator download the back of the track’s Main Grandstand and then Walking Through A Tunnel Under the Main Straight to Get Up to the Paddock for Interviews and Chats With sounds. But, over, this has to be one of the best facilities of the Season.
OH, and to Alex’s Point about the Beauty of this Race, I’ve Been Love is the Drive to and from the Track Each Day Throw The Mountains. Way to go, Austria. Swpping You for Milton Keynes Next Week Week, where we’re staying for the british GP, will brings me rackar back down to every …
Norris Sets the Practice Pace
Briton Misses FP1, Finishes on Top
Here are the Main Takeaways from toode’s on-TRACKACTION in Austria:
- George Russell set That was 0.065 Seconds CLEAR of Max VersabPen in Second, with Oscar Piastri Third.
- Lando Norris Gave Up His McL39 to formula 2 Driver and McLaren Junior Alex Dunne in FP1. The Irish Race Finished an Impressive FOURTH on his First F1 Weekend Outing.
- In FP2, NORRIS WASDED No Time in Charging to the Top of the Timesheets Online Finally Back in his Car.
- He Later Set The Day’s Best Laptime AT 1: 04.580 Seconds, With Piaastri 0.157 Seconds Down in Second.
- This weekend is a Crucial one for norris after his embarrasing Canada Crash with Piastri. The Red Bull Ring Will Also Test McLaren’s Fix For Norris’s 2025 Braking Isues with Its Many Big Stops and Late Fast Corners.
Final Practice in Austria Takes Place at 7:30 PM Et and 11:30 AM UK on Saturday, with Qualifying to Follow at 11 AM Et and 3 PM UK. Follow it all with us.
NORRIS Only Had One Practice Session to Get Up to Speed on Friday (Joe Klamar / AFP / Getty Images)
Outside The Points
📍 it somehow Turns Out the Austrian GP TRACK is ACTULY 8m Longer in 2025 Than in 2024, and there are some pretty wild Theories in the Paddock to Explain This.
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