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Bottas wins race of attrition, Hamilton penalised again

Valtteri Bottas pic: Mercedes-AMG F1 Twitter Valtteri Bottas has won a season-opening Austrian Grand Prix of high drama while Lewis Hamilton missed out on a podium due to a second penalty in a handful of hours. The Mercedes-AMG Formula One Team should have been a comfortable one-two on car pace alone, even before Max Verstappen retired with a technical problem early in the piece, but the Red Bull Ring’s punishing kerbs made them nervous before Safety Cars contributed to Hamilton’s downfall. The Briton took the chequered flag in second position but is officially classified fourth owing to a five-second penalty for spinning out Alexander Albon just over 10 laps from home. Hamilton had...
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