2024 F1 AUSTRIAN GP race analysis by Peter Windsor 

Independently of whom is to blame or not, Lando got the first taste of what really means to fight at the front in F1 when championship points start to count for real. No buddies, no fun and what not. Just ruthless competition. This is good, it will be a stepping stone in his journey if he wants to win championships.

The real driver of the day is Hulkenberg.

"Drive to survive" guys will make a full length cinema movie out of this one.

People forget Lando pushed Max on the grass recently, but Max managed to not crash so everybody passed on it…

True the penalty for Lando came way too late. it should be a pretty simple decision. but yeah, the FIA.

Last week end when max was asked about his opinion on Lando pushing off the track at the start he answered he would have done the same

I think Norris just put himself under huge pressure for finally getting a win. After missing out the last two times it was obvious that he was going to give everything and more. And his remark about "Max has won so many times already." is a bit surprising. If he knows Max well (which he does), he also knows that Max will fight just as hard for win 68 (or whatever it is), as he did for the very first one. That hunger makes him the champion he is. He is not going to give anyone a present because they deserve their first victory. Not even a close friend.

Thanks mr. Windsor for this balanced take. We see a lot of people with old frustrations crawling from under their rocks and spinning an absolutely one-sided take.

Lando squeezing in Spain is ‘hard racing’. Max squeezing in Austria is drama. Double standard for brit drivers as always.

Its was pretty clear on Landos track limits ! Why did it take fia like 4 laps till after the crash to give him a 5 sec penalty.

"Peter Windsor is anti Verstappen" "Peter Windsor always supports British drivers" This video proves this to be wrong.

Dive bombing 45 times over 15 laps and eventually forces contact. What did anyone expect

I was waiting for your perspective Peter. Knew it would be more balanced than that coming from the British media/ fans. Appreciate your insight.

Martin Brundle & obviously Ted Kravitz ganging up on Max, blaming everything on him was utter disgusting & shameful given they're supposed to be professional. How about Lando rocket into Max on two corners running him out on both occasions, if anything Lando was trying too hard without properly setting up his attack, which is always risky.

Peter with his usual great analysis & insight. It's a reason you have this many subscribers

Verstappen moved over a few times before the crash then for the crash he had no interest in actually trying to turn into the corner his focus was on blocking Norris you could see him looking in his mirror as he moved across in the on car footage . That's intent and he was to blame simple as that.

When Piastri starts outperforming Norris this year (or next year), let's see how Norris reacts

Max clearly setting the tone for Norris for the future. He wants him to be more tentative next time. They are friends but Max is reminding him who is daddy

If max was British he wouldn’t be hung out to dry and ridiculed. The British media is disgusting

That unsafe release was in pit stop 1 to the hard tire

Does anyone else get the impression a lot of people have been saving up a lot of arguments for a long, long time. It's almost like the had drafts saved on X waiting for something like this :)

A great analysis- so far I’m writing this live! The British media post race was totally over the line and they almost wanted to have max disqualified. You and danish tv and former race drivers came almost to the same conclusions. But the British media is over the line and lost every objective analysis of the race. And looking at it now it was tough but unlucky and if Lando had been given his penalty everything could have been avoided! But it is was it is

Finally, a reasonable take. The majority of the British race media’s bias is out of control. They want to support their countrymen so badly they look foolish.

I want to remark that the complaining from Norris that Max destroyed his car is totally untrue. Norris did that himselve by driving to fast with a flat tyre which ended slapping round and round destroying the floor and backside of the McLaren. So the retirement is Norris his own fault.

I ALMOST believed your view for Max until I fact checked... Max DID change his steering angle before the shunt. If you look at the replay he CLEARLY turned left braking into 3, didn't leave 1 car's width space which caused the accident. You also didn't mention the overtake move before where Norris fairly overtook and Max went off-track to gain an unfair advantage to keep the lead?

I think both Max and Lando should watch your video together when flying back to Monaco...

Happy to have your comment because is not biased. If my english is correct

It was hard racing, that's what I like to call it. Verstappen however is being slaughtered on social media. Lando's comments after the race were very childish in my opinion. Verstappen also didn't move under braking actually. It looks like this from the helicopter shots, but if you look at the onboard and the telemetry it will tell a different story. Look at Vettels overtake on Hamilton in 2018. Vettel squeezed Hamilton even more, but they didn't crash? What was Norris thinking? Going around the outside in that corner will never work, especially not against Max.

Thank you Peter. This is the most honest and unbiased analysis I have heard today. It’s hard racing and indeed a result of too many unclear rules which are interpreted in an arbitrary way by the stewards. Much unlike some of the other British media who are always first to point the finger at Max.

Lando had the better perspective on what was happening as the driver in the rear. Lando could have avoided Max, He choose to maintain his his position on the track, I at first thought it was Max's fault but looking at the overhead footage it's pretty clear Lando had a choice as the car behind it's his obligation not Max's

Peter the unsafe release was on the first stop when Max went from medium to hard.

You're mistaken, Peter. The Red Bull pit stop being investigated was the first one. It was an okay pit stop 2.7s stationary for Max. There have been much closer cases of unsafer release than that. Hence, the stewards dismissed it. Max lost 2s for a slow wheel nut and another 2s for Lando to pass by on his second stop.

Kvyat driving a McLaren now?

Oscar can overtake drivers like Lewis and Carlos, no dive bombing. The car can do it, Lando needs to learn some smarter racecraft.

I'm a subscriber but I don't always watch your vids unless I really am torn about some race controversy. I think your hypothesis on this racing incident is fair to both drivers and it rings true. Miles better than the biased and inflammatory post race show from Sky F1.

If I was George I would send thank you cards to Max and Lando.

Hi Peter, @ 8:25.00 The unsafe release was in the first set op pit-stops, going to hards. This is also the reason Max was held up more at his second stop... RB did not want to risk the unsafe release investigation twice...

It makes me laugh all the hate for Max. Remember Hamilton near killed him in Silverstone a few years ago Norris had Max in the grass in the last Grand Prix , not to mention his wild lunges at the race today ! so I put it down to a racing incident since two guys racing hard, but ultimately Max will never relinquish. Respect to Max .

Many thanks to Mr. Windsor for an excellent overview of the happenings of today. You should be on the F1 channel, as they seem to have no clue. Just prejudices about certain drivers. You, on the other hand, are spot on with your analysis. Thanks, for a cogent description of events.

Thanks Peter. You're the first one that hasn't overreacted. I agree, Max angled with the track but didn't turn under braking.

Absolutely the best analysis of the incident.

I have to say Norris is such a cry baby.. He’s been on the radio ever complaining about Verstappen moving under braking, which, if that was the case would’ve been penalized, it’s easy to get the metrics from telemetry. Then Norris was, understandably, super aggressive in his attacks almost taking out Verstappen at one point to complain that he was forced off the track. In what world does Lando live to even think that was the case? Then he complained after another divebomb pushing Verstappen off track that he should give back the position because he was ahead at the apex, well look at the video, he was half a car behind.. I love these aggressive moves and racing in general but stop the whining, both were racing hard and to be really fair, the “shunt” to me was more an unfortunate racing incident than a penalty worth move.

Peter analyzing the situation, not just regurgitating the rather biased Sky Sports commentary we get in Oz. I hold no allegiances either way but my assessment was that max braked in a straight line, just not a line parallel to the outer kerb, as that's how he has decided is his approach to taking this corner. Lando just drove on the outside of Max like he wasn't there and put himslelf in harms way which is just dumb. Despite all his public theatrics, Lando will be kicking himself that he threw a potential win in the bin - though he would have had to beat Max by 5 seconds or more to do this with his track-limits penalty!

The sad thing about these stupid statements by Norris is that it will probably rain death threats on Verstappen again next week from all sorts of idiot paper tigers behind their computers and it will be no different at Silverstone next weekend. Norris should realise that he is a role model for the world and that this kind of statement shows how immature he still is. With Stella and Brown, too, you can see by their stupid statements (bring Lewis back in with that 2021 case...) that frustration still prevails there. Probably because they haven't been able to build a winning car for years. But boy oh boy... what cheap rhetoric, unbelievable.

Yea, that definitely Lando's fault. Every common sense take on how that works says Lando was at fault. The driver on the inside shouldn't HAVE to alter their own line, particularly when they are AHEAD. That rule is stupid, well i understand the thought behind it but its implemented extremely poorly. If the driver in the lead ACTUALLY intentionally forces them off the track in a clear case of being an asshole, penalize them. But its not like Max made double moves to cut him off, Max simply performed his defensive moves perfectly. British Media, fans, and all the 10yr old Lando fanboys will never accept that. Lando has the better car yet he keeps getting curb stomped by the superior driver. But it makes ZERO sense that Max is, for some insane reason, supposed to change HIS racing line despite being in the lead by his entire cars length... that's stupid. The stewards are shit but thats not news. The FIA needs to get it's shit together. It's as bad as the NFL and home plate umpires in baseball. They set rules that make no logical sense because they are entirely open to interpretation and some of them go against everything racing IS. Every human on the planet, with a fully functioning brain, KNOWS that in a turn the driver in the lead AND on the inside of the corner has the right of way to drive whichever line he wants to pick and its on the car behind to anticipate their choice and counter their movement to gain an advantage and potentially make the pass. Lando wins one race and its like he thinks hes Michael Schumacher or something and should get Lewis Hamilton levels of preferential treatment...its insane. And worse, the rabid 10 year olds and most of British Media with their general massive bias on British athletes, AND apparently the FIA and stewards think so too. Its just stupid.

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Take a bow Peter. Appreciate your unbiased take. 👏

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Thank you peter. Finally someone who just looked at the onboards and racing and comes to a fair conclusion. This is a prime example of a racing incident in which neither is really to blame. Wheelbanging like this happen every race but now sadly led to a puncture for both cars. I found it very strange the stewards gave Verstappen a penalty especially considering they did like half lap later when max just got out of the pits again. I doubt they thoroughly reviewed the footage and jumped to conclusions which might be unsettling for future decisionmaking by precedent now. Lando already got his track limit penalty in the race, but somehow it took the stewards around 5-7 laps to determine that whilst it’s a pretty slam dunk penalty. I found this weird considering the speed at which they made the verstappen decision. It’s like they wanted to wait with the penalty knowing it would keep lando and max racing instead of max letting lando through. This worries me a lot, apparently spectacle is now more important than fairness or safety for that matter. If they had a massive dangerous crash with potential injury that would’ve been on the FIA for withholding that penalty. Their withholding also caused both Max and Lando a 1-2 finish (they both lost out on the podium now after regardless of who would’ve finished first) this should be reviewed. The stark difference in handling speed between these incidents whilst the faster decision was a lot harder to make than the slow decision is just quite unbelievable.

Friend sent me this video after we argued about the incident. I am fairly new to the F1 (started watching at the start of the 2023 season) so this really helped me understand better. Thank you for talking about the race so clearly, keep it up, you got a new fan :-)

Even the mostly ,very biased, English pundits were praizing him the last couple of races for being a absolute masterclass driver, getting more out of the car then it was capable of. Now, after one mistake in maybey 40 races, he is the villain again.

I do not care about the incident it was a small thouch with a lot of bad luck happening , I do want to comment on the toxic commentators . Except Stefano . You can see he was fair and loves everyone and everything about racing

Lando pretty desperate there, needs more experience fighting for that top step. Divebomb after divebomb into the hairpin at times not even trying to make the corner. Could have just kept Max under pressure for 3 more laps and got the job done on the straight. That Mclaren had fresher tires and is kinder on its tires than RB.

It takes 2 to tango. Anyone who didn't see it coming understands nothing about racing and about max. Taking the hypocritical english side on this one is just being ignorant. In the end both were equally at fault. And to be honest #LandoNorris showed his inexperience as he could have kept pressuring #MaxVerstappen into a mistake instead of being all dive bomb banzai, since being all dive bomb banzai on max gets you what lando got. Now max extended his lead further by 12 points to 81 points over lando, meaning that lando lost and max won.

Um. The unsafe release wasn't during the 6 second pitstop. It was during the pitstop before.

What is so weird to me. We had a similar situation between Max and Lewis at Monza in 2021. Only then Max was on the outside and got squeezed. Lewis did not leave enough space and Max hit the sausage kerb, resulting in Max hitting Lewis and both cars stranded. This was fairly similar, both drivers not willing to give up and eventually collide. max on the outside? Penalty. Max on the inside? Penalty. I really don't understand the rules of racing sometimes and they're not making it very clear why they punish a certain driver imo.

Funny thing is that max is not even turned up to 100 on agression yet. But he still managed to make lando cry and make mistakes. Now this was ablessing in desguise because now max wont be so nice to lando on track anymore, BEAST mode is coming now.

bloody rule is sott on, ifon the inside, stay on the freaking inside. i was sure were were aware of lando getting track limit penalty before the attamepted avertake :/

No one wants to talk about the fact that Lando should have had 5 second penalty for track limits when he dive bombed Max? That should have been an immediate penalty and all that crap would have been avoided. FIA fucked it up again.

Great analysis and insight. Hats off to Peter for giving this balanced and objective take of the incident. If only the pundits could be like this.

THANK YOU PETER, YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO IS OBJECTIVE. I THINK MAX DID NOT WANT TO CRASH. AND YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THE PENALTY FOR LANDO. WHY DID THEY ANNOUNCE THIS SO LATE. AND I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY EVERYONE ATTACKS ONLY MAX . WE SAW ALSO AGGRESSIVE RACING FROM LANDO. Actually IT WAS HARD RACING FROM BOTH.

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I think you have the pit stops confused as far as the unsafe release is concerned. The long pit stop got extra long because they released Max only after Lando had passed.

Were it not for the slow pit stop and the delayed Lando track limit, Max would have won either ahead or behind Lando. Max appeared to make double moves as approaching turn 3, but Lando enough room to avoid contact altogether imo

Peter Windsor, meanwhile, seems to be the only one in the UK who can look at it in a nuanced way.

As always, Peter makes sense out of the nonsensical.......Thanks!

I knew I could count on Mr. Windsor having an actually balanced, reasonable take based on facts that actually happened.

I am a bit disappointed with Mr. Windsor's take in today's race. I normally respect his balanced perspectives, except he did get a few facts incorrectly. 1) The Austrian race is 71 laps long, not 77 as he mentions. 2) Mr. Windsor also is naming the wrong RB pitstop being investigated. 3) More importantly, Max does indeed steer to the left in the braking zone (@ the 100m board). This was a rule implemented in the regulations several years back when Max would make dangerous moves under braking (article 33.4). Max moved several times in the braking zone and pushed Lando wide during the exit of the turn. It's too bad Peter's post race videos don't include race footage that backs up his statements.

Lando cost max an race win, but max gained 10 points on Lando today😂.... both to blaim, this is racing...

It wasnt an unsafe release. Norris claimed he couldnt steer in,.. If he did, he would be pitting at Ferrari. He did a hard brake to exaggerate.. (all drivers do, its their Schwalbe)... F1 is becoming more about silly rules, drivers complaining and ratting out like football players. Overtaking was a skill, not a push off a button, and when that didnt work adding more silly rules like mentioned, the moving under breaking. Just let them race like they did pre drs.

I don't understand why we have all these penalties for unsafe releases and unsafe reentries and moving under braking and have to leave room for the other car but somehow we have no penalties for unsafe actions when passing? Lando would've taken Max out with the divebomb on lap 58 and even when he ran Max off the road had he not taken evasive actions. Why is there no penalty unless there's contact when so many other penalties exist to avoid contact. Also I totally agree that the delay in applying the Lando penalty played a huge part in that situation.

Really the stewards sat on a penalty decision for too long. If they handed Lando the penalty when it was obvious he would get one then the crash probably wouldn’t have happened

"Catching is one thing, passing is quite another" specially living legend Max Verstappen. RIP Murray Walker. Onto Silverstone 🎉

Peter you know you're great but, I do think you're wrong on this one. Lando tried two times on the inside and failed. So Lando was gonna try the outside and Max wasn't prepared for that. Max flinched to the outside when he saw what Lando was doing. The previous two laps Max kept flinching to block Lando in response to which side Lando was going to go to, in the braking zone none the less. That alone is a 10 second penalty and Max did it twice in the previous two laps. This time Lando was going to go on the outside, and with Max being in reaction mode, flinched left and realized it was too late. Lando was already there. Max's reaction to Lando already being there should have been to take the corner but intentionally didn't do so until it was too late and then they collided. Lando was in the right on this one. Max made a mistake. Thats not what gets me upset about this whole thing though. What gets me upset is that the stewards had two laps to warn Verstappen about movement in the braking zone and they chose not to take action. Third time in a challenge for the lead and there was a collision. When the FiA puts points onto your Super License, it means it was avoidable. Max really needs to change his crash or win mindset when he gets on that track. He's got a tremendous amount of skill and that skill does not allow you to put a competitors $80 Million dollar car at risk.

Vultures enter the chat below; so they can help Silverstone to sell all their tickets. 🤣🤣🤣

Years of complaining F1 is boring. Overtaking 99 out of a 100 times is just DRS crap. Finaly after 3,5 years some real racing and then everybody quoting the rulebook.

Really refreshing to hear this take..unbiased unlike so many "professional journalists" out there. I thought the same about the pit release... was dumbfounded to see how long it took to give the track limit penalty.

I watched the incident several times through, and I disagree with your analysis that Vestappen did not steer left, but the it is the track turns right. If you take the satellite view in google maps, you can see that the track is absolutely straight all the way to the sharp corner. Max moved more than half a car width to force Lando out. Max knows he was wrong, I wonder if he is big enough to admit.

The FIA is really to blame for this all, they should have made a earlier decision about the time penalty for Lando.... but they didn't..... again FIA messes up

Listening to what George said that Lando said he is going to race Max hard , must Max just pull over. It shows Lando's intention .

The crash between max and lando looked worse too because of the second impact which resulted after Max lost tire pressure and in return lost steering grip and went further outside

Too many penalties given out today. Let them race.

Max did moved the steering to the left and he saw Lando from his mirror. Just checked from the on-board, it can be seen very clearly.

you are absolutely wrong with the fact that max didnt turn his steering wheel left when the collision happened. fact

best insight i have heard yet

and 5 second penalty was given during the race... Come on Peter, watch it carefully please...

Excellent analysis, Peter.

Peter you simply just can’t acknowledge that Max is dirty driver…always has been always will be

small incident made big by toxic media.....max bashers woke up....well u know max....next time he will do as he pleases ....I hope so at least

If Max was British they would be tearing down statues and replacing them with figures of him lol

This was a good insight. Thank you Peter.

this was fantastic insight, thank you Peter. i believe in trying to be fair despite having a bias toward someone, so even as a Max fan i was quick to give him more of the blame than Lando at first glance. but the more i looked at the footage, and now that ive listened to your breakdown of events, i have a clearer perspective and definitely think it was at LEAST equal blame. F1 is a fascinating and complex sport, that's for sure.

To be honest i do not know when Peter records these but he mentioned he just got the message that Lando got a 5 second penalty. I was watching F1 TV and i am sure i have seen and heard the 5 second penalty getting anounced during the race 1 or 2 laps before the shunt.

So basically what you're saying at the start was Max was at fault in Silverstone & you'd be right.

I hope Max wins in Silverstone by 30 seconds to shut some of those salty whiners up. Both went over the limit today, Max just got the blame because of the contact.

Was Max not moving in the braking zones? You say he was moving perfectly into the corner. Is this not the breaking Zone?

Brilliant analysis….thanks

I disagree- when Verstappen is under pressure he reacts by blocking and running other drivers off the road as with Lewis in 2021- he’s a dirty driver with most people feeling that way!✅💯

Thank you Peter! It's just racing to be honest.

God tier, balanced, impartial, knowledgeable factual information and analysis as always Peter. All delivered in a perfect package of manors, grammar, vocabulary intrigue truth honesty and integrity with the ability to weave analytical content with personal experience and storytelling of a life lead to the highest quality and level possible around f1 except maybe Eddie Jordan lol. Love ya Pete. I love Cameron but it’s what I described that just makes you better. Thanks as always 👀🧐🤔🤫👍🏼