Red Bull take podium and double points finish at Austrian Grand Prix

Red Bull took a podium finish with both cars in the points at the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring.

Max Verstappen picked up his second podium of 2026 with a second place finish as he narrowly held off championship leader Andrea Kimi Antonelli to take his highest finish of the season so far, while teammate Isack Hadjar finished 6th.

Verstappen remains 7th in the championship but moves up to 73 points, with the Dutchman sitting 6 points behind Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc, who are tied on 79 points. Hadjar is in the position directly behind Verstappen, with the Frenchman leapfrogging Pierre Gasly to move up to 8th in the standings with 42 points for the season to date.

In the Constructor’s Championship, Red Bull remain 4th in the standings on 115 points. The Milton Keynes-based team are 44 points behind 3rd place McLaren and 58 clear of 5th place Alpine.

On a roasting hot day in Austria, Red Bull had seen their cars start 5th and 8th at the ring sponsored by the racing team’s parent company located in the Red Bull corporation’s home country.

Verstappen was able to start from 5th having crashed out in qualifying but with repairs not requiring him to take a grid penalty.

Both drivers were busy off the start. Verstappen was able to get past the slow-starting Charles Leclerc and Antonelli to get into third place in the opening laps, while Hadjar was initially involved in a fight with Liam Lawson before retaining his grasp on 8th.

In the opening phase, Verstappen began trying to launch an attack on Lewis Hamilton in second, and on lap 11, the two did battle, with Hamilton barely holding onto the place after the Red Bull initially got past the Ferrari.

After the pair made their first pit-stops, the duo then would fight again on lap 22 and this time, Verstappen would make it stick, making the move into turn 6 to squeeze out Hamilton and drive away from the Ferrari.

Most of the remainder of Verstappen’s race saw him attempt to try and chase down pole sitter George Russell, with the Red Bull getting close to the Mercedes and cutting the lead to under 2 seconds after Russell made a mistake. But the timing of the duo’s second pit-stops allowed Russell to re-establish a larger lead.

Even then, however, Verstappen still had more pace than Russell and in the final laps, he did begin to close in. But going faster was Antonelli, however, with Russell’s Mercedes teammate getting to Verstappen faster.

Both battles would go to the final lap but Verstappen would hold on to second by less than half a second from Antonelli.

As for Hadjar, the Frenchman would end up getting onto the tail end of a fight between McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and the Ferrari pair, with his strategy having helped him clear Lando Norris’ McLaren. But when Leclerc’s tyres gave out, Hadjar made a move with 15 laps to go to swipe 6th place, where he duly finished.

There’s a quick turnaround coming up for Red Bull, as the team prepare to face the British Grand Prix down the road from Milton Keynes at Silverstone next weekend.