FACTS AND STATS: Red Bull’s 77-race scoring streak ended on home soil

An actioned-packed Austrian Grand Prix kept fans glued to the edge of their seats. It also kept our number-crunchers rather busy. Here’s our round-up of their findings, from success and race-winning symmetry at McLaren, to the end of an amazing run of points at Red Bull.

• McLaren scored their fourth 1-2 finish of the season, the team’s most since 2007.

• For Norris, it was his seventh career victory.

• The last McLaren driver to win at the Red Bull Ring was David Coulthard in 2001.

• Only two drivers have won exactly seven Grands Prix for McLaren: Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.

• Piastri finished second in Austria for the second year in a row.

• Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc finished in P3 for his third podium finish in the last four Grands Prix.

• It was Leclerc’s fifth podium finish at the Red Bull Ring, his most at any circuit.

• Team mate Lewis Hamilton tied his best GP result of the season (he also finished P4 at Imola).

• Hamilton finished fourth for Mercedes in last year’s race.

• George Russell took P5 for Mercedes and has only failed to score once this season (11th in Monaco).

• Liam Lawson’s P6 for Racing Bulls was his career-best finish.

• At Aston Martin, Fernando Alonso now has back-to-back seventh-place finishes, in Canada and Austria.

• P8 for Kick Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto was his first career points finish.

• That was Sauber’s best result at the Red Bull Ring since Kimi Raikkonen finished fourth in 2001.

• Bortoleto’s team mate Nico Hulkenberg scored points in P9 from last on the starting grid.

• Hulkenberg is the first Sauber driver to score in three consecutive races since Valtteri Bottas in 2022.

• It was the first double points finish for Sauber since Qatar 2023.

• P10 in the Haas for Esteban Ocon was his fifth points finish of the season.

• With Yuki Tsunoda the last classified finisher in P16 and Max Verstappen going out on Lap 1, Red Bull’s 77-race scoring streak ended today (four short of the all-time record set by Ferrari).

• With neither Alex Albon nor Carlos Sainz completing the race, Williams suffered their first double DNF/DNS since Sao Paulo 2024.

• It was Albon’s third consecutive race retirement.

• Verstappen’s last two retirements on the first lap have been when he was hit by a Mercedes, the previous one being Silverstone 2021.

• For Verstappen it was the end of a 31-race points streak (and 74 of the last 75 races).

• Kimi Antonelli had never retired on the first lap before today (the last Mercedes lap-one retirement was Lewis Hamilton at Qatar 2023).

• Antonelli’s only points finish in the last five races was his podium finish in Canada.