Post 900, 2015 Austrian Grand Prix Review and thoughts

Review of the eighth round of the 2015 F1 season at the Red Bull Ring, on the outskirts of Spielberg, Styria, for the Austrian Grand Prix.

Overall, I thought it was a good race to watch, with Lewis Hamilton on pole for Sunday's race, you would have thought it will be a predicted win for Lewis Hamilton. And at the start Nico Rosberg took the lead right at the start and stayed there throughout a dominating race win for Nico Rosberg, to win this seasons Austrian Grand Prix for his third race win of the season.



While, Rosberg's team-mate and current F1 Champion Lewis Hamilton finished in second place in the other Mercedes to give the team its fifth one-two finish of the season, despite Hamilton had to take a five seconds time penalty for crossing the white line while exiting the pit-lane for his only pit-stop of the race, he was nine seconds behind Rosberg at the end.

Meanwhile, Felipe Massa finished in third place in the Williams to complete the podium, this was Massa's first podium finish of the season, Massa was seventeen seconds behind Rosberg at the end of the seventy-one lap race.

Rate the Teams and Drivers

Mercedes - 8
Lewis Hamilton - 7 (pole, finished second)
Nico Rosberg - 9 (race win, fastest lap)

Red Bull Racing - 5
Daniel Ricciardo - 6 (finished tenth, lap down)
Daniil Kvyat - 5 (finished twelfth, lap down)

Williams - 8
Valtteri Bottas - 8 (finished fifth)
Felipe Massa - 9 (finished third)

Ferrari - 6
Sebastian Vettel - 7 (finished fourth)
Kimi Räikkönen - 6 (DNF, Collision with Fernando Alonso)

McLaren - 5
Jenson Button - 5 (DNF, Electrical failure)
Fernando Alonso - 5 (DNF, Collision with Kimi Räikkönen)

Force India - 7
Nico Hülkenberg - 9 (finished sixth)
Sergio Pérez - 6 (finished ninth, lap down)

Toro Rosso - 7
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 5 (DNF, Power loss)
Max Verstappen - 9 (finished eighth, lap down)

Lotus - 7
Romain Grosjean - 6 (DNF, Gearbox)
Pastor Maldonado - 8 (finished seventh, lap down)

Manor - 6
Will Stevens - 5 (DNF, Oil leak)
Roberto Merhi - 7 (finished fourteenth, three laps down)

Sauber - 6
Marcus Ericsson - 5 (finished thirteenth, two laps down)
Felipe Nasr - 7 (finished eleventh, lap down)

Next stop Silverstone for the British Grand Prix in two weeks time.

End of blog for now, new post soon. Bye.