Red Bull score no points at Austrian Grand Prix

Red Bull endured a miserable race at the Austrian Grand Prix as they scored no points.

Max Verstappen failed to finish after he was taken out by a first-lap crash, while Yuki Tsunoda finished 16th and 2 laps down on race winner Lando Norris.

The result meant that Red Bull failed to score points in a full Grand Prix race for the first time since 2022, with the team having a difficult race at the Red Bull Ring in the Red Bull parent company’s home race.

A pointless race means Verstappen loses ground in the Driver’s Championship race. The Dutchman and reigning four-time champion sits third but is now 46 points behind Norris and 61 points behind championship leader Oscar Piastri.

Team-mate Tsunoda sits 17th in the championship, having just 10 points so far in 2025 and is now on a run of four races in a row without points.

In the Constructor’s Championship, Red Bull remain 4th in the standings. They are now 47 points behind Mercedes, 48 behind Ferrari and 255 behind leaders McLaren.

On a sweltering hot day in the Austrian mountains, Red Bull had been hoping to improve after a sub-par qualifying. Verstappen had qualified 7th, with his second lap at the end of Q3 compromised by Pierre Gasly spinning his Alpine, while Tsunoda had been knocked out in Q1.

Verstappen’s day would however be over very quickly. Although he had got into turn 3 in 6th after gaining a position off the line, he was struck by Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes, with the Italian rookie having attempted to avoid a collision with Liam Lawson only to instead hit Verstappen.

The collision damaged both cars and put them both out of the race before lap one had even finished. The failure to finish was Verstappen’s first DNF in 31 races, with his last having come in the Australian Grand Prix early last year.

Antonelli would later apologise to both Verstappen and his team for the incident. The stewards would later assign blame to the Italian, with Antonelli handed a 3-place grid drop penalty for the next race.

Tsunoda had remained on track after the opening exchanges, with the Japanese driver also managing to avoid censure after he was accused of forcing Lance Stroll off track.

The Japanese driver had been running in the top 10 early on and was fighting his way back after his first pit-stop. But on lap 31, he hit trouble. Tsunoda had tried to overtake Franco Colapinto in the Alpine, but struck the Argentine driver’s car, damaging his front wing in the process.

That lead to an immediate front-wing change being required, while Tsunoda was also given a ten second time penalty by the stewards for his misdemeanour.

Even more antics then broke out as Tsunoda and Colapinto were fighting into turn 3 in the final stages when the two were caught by Piastri. The Australian was even forced onto the grass by Colapinto, who was handed a time penalty.

Tsunoda was pitted again near the end, taking his penalty in the process. He was ultimately the last of the classified 16 finishers and the only one to finish two laps down on race winner Norris.

Red Bull will seek to bounce back next time out, when the Milton Keynes-based team head to Silverstone to compete in the British Grand Prix.