The race result from the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix and the updated championship standings.
Race Result
[motorsport_result id=’67686′]
Drivers’ Championship
| # | Driver | Pts |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |  |  |  |  | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Verstappen | 394.5 | 18P | 25 | 18P | 19FL | 25 | 0 | 26P, FL | 25P | 26P, FL | 3P | 2 | 12.5P | 25P | 2P | 18 | 18 | 25P | 25 | 20 | 19FL | 18 | 25P | |
| Lewis Hamilton | 387.5 | 25 | 19P, FL | 25 | 25P | 7FL | 0 | 18 | 19FL | 12 | 27 | 18P | 7.5 | 19FL | 0 | 25 | 10 | 19FL | 18 | 25 | 25P | 26P, FL | 18 | |
 | Valtteri Bottas | 226 | 16FL | 0 | 16FL | 15 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 18 | 10 | 26P, FL | 8 | 0P, FL | 18 | 0 | 15 | 8 | |
| Sergio Perez | 190 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 25 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 12FL | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Carlos Sainz | 164.5 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 0.5 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 15 | |
| Charles Leclerc | 161 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 0P | 12P | 0 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 1 | |
| Lando Norris | 160 | 12 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 7P, FL | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
 | Daniel Ricciardo | 115 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 27FL | 12 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
| Pierre Gasly | 110 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11FL | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 10 | |
| Fernando Alonso | 81 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 4 | |
| Esteban Ocon | 74 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 2 | |
 | Sebastian Vettel | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
 | Lance Stroll | 34 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
 | Yuki Tsunoda | 32 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| George Russell | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Kimi Raikkonen | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Nicholas Latifi | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Antonio Giovinazzi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Mick Schumacher | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Nikita Mazepin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Constructors’ Championship
| # | Team | Pts | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Mercedes | 613.5 | 41 | 19 | 41 | 40 | 7 | 0 | 30 | 34 | 30 | 43 | 18 | 7.5 | 34 | 18 | 35 | 36 | 27 | 18 | 43 | 25 | 41 | 26 | |
 | Red Bull | 584.5 | 28 | 25 | 30 | 29 | 37 | 25 | 41 | 37 | 34 | 3 | 2 | 12.5 | 29 | 12 | 20 | 33 | 40 | 40 | 33 | 31 | 18 | 25 | |
 | Ferrari | 323.5 | 12 | 22 | 8 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 0 | 14 | 14 | 26 | 15 | 2.5 | 16 | 20 | 15 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 16 | |
 | McLaren | 275 | 18 | 23 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 18 | 10 | 21 | 22 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 45 | 19 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | |
 | Alpine | 155 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 37 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 12 | 6 | |
 | AlphaTauri | 142 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 22 | |
 | Aston Martin | 77 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
 | Williams | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
 | Alfa Romeo | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
 | Haas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I still think the best cars out there are the Mercedes, but the drivers and team have become lazy and were so used to being on autopilot for nearly a decade, and they didn’t account for what would happen when guys Verstappen and Norris were finally in halfway decent cars (i.e., Alonso-like performances would happen). They are just so much better than Hamilton and Bottas, and probably the rest of the field, other than Russell and Alonso himself. One only needs to look at the performance of their teammates to see that it’s not the cars they are in, because Perez and Ricciardo are rarely close to Verstappen and Norris during any given weekend, and the true pace of the Red Bull and McLaren cars are probably somewhere in between teammates (4th-5th). They remind me a lot of Schumacher and Hakkinen.