NICO Rosberg won the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix in a Mercedes one-two finish yester day to stretch his championship lead over team-mate Lewis Hamilton to 29 points after eight races.
NICO Rosberg won the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix in a Mercedes one-two finish yester day to stretch his championship lead over team-mate Lewis Hamilton to 29 points after eight races.
Williams drivers Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa, who had started on the front row, finished third and fourth respectively.
The victory was Rosberg's third of the season and his team's seventh.
It was also their sixth one-two finish of the year and came after Massa had ended their run of seven successive pole positions.
"It was not the easiest of races, trying to manage certain things which were right on the limit on the car. But in the end I had a very, very fast car again," said Rosberg, interviewed on the podium by former Red Bull racer Mark Webber.
"It was fantastic to win today. It was great also to get a one-two here in Austria. It's been great to come back here," added the German after his eighth successive podium finish and sixth career win.
In the first Grand Prix held in Austria since 2003, champions Red Bull were eclipsed at their own track with quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel retiring and Australian Daniel Ricciardo finishing eighth.
Bottas, celebrating his first Formula One podium, led for a lap after Massa's first stop that saw the Brazilian drop down the order and was ecstatic with his team's best performance since 2012.
Said the Finn: "The race was exactly what we needed at this point, clean, nice, everything went like planned." - Reuters
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