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By: Geoff Creighton

Summary

Status: Stopped
Ricciardo with trademark grin. Pic: LAT Images.

Ricciardo with trademark grin. Pic: LAT Images.

 
The podium during the anthems. Pic: LAT Images.

The podium during the anthems. Pic: LAT Images.

 
Christian Horner celebrates his Red Bull team's first win of 2017. Pic: LAT Images.

Christian Horner celebrates his Red Bull team's first win of 2017. Pic: LAT Images.

 
Ricciardo on the podium. Pic: LAT Images.

Ricciardo on the podium. Pic: LAT Images.

 
Ricciardo takes a drink himself. And that's the podium ceremony over.
Ricciardo pours the champagne in. Looks like Stroll is his chosen victim. "You realise this is going to scar me for life," Stroll says.
Coulthard has pre-empted the mandatory Ricciardo 'shoey' and is unlacing the Red Bull driver's boot.
 
 
Coulthard reveals Stroll has been voted driver of the day by the fans.
Stroll: "It was a hectic race, we just kept out of trouble. I just lost out to Valtteri, I think that was probably one of the closest finishes of all time. I couldn't believe coming into the weekend that we would be on the podium."
Ricciardo: "It was a crazy race. We knew the podium was a chance after the restart but then we heard the problems with Lewis and Seb. I made an unplanned pitstop at the beginning, we had some debris and had to clear it. This was the race we expected last year with all the safety cars and the chaos."
David Coulthard heads onto the podium to conduct the interviews. "Did anyone predict this podium," he asks the fans.
The top three and Red Bull's Pierre Wache pose for the usual podium photograph.
And now onto the Austrian national anthem for Milton Keynes-based Red Bull Racing.
Incidentally, Bottas set his best lap of the race on the last lap as he overhauled Stroll. Mighty effort.
The Australian national anthem is playing. Ricciardo looks delighted.
And here's Ricciardo to take the plaudits for his fifth grand prix win.
 
Bottas heads out to take up second place on the rostrum.
Stroll heads onto the podium. He's going to enjoy this moment. And he deserves to after a very difficult season to date.
 
 
Result:
1 Ricciardo
2 Bottas
3 Stroll
4 Vettel
5 Hamilton
6 Ocon
7 Magnussen
8 Sainz
9 Alonso
10 Wehrlein
11 Ericsson
12 Vandoorne
13 Grosjean
14 Raikkonen
 
"Oh man, he got me," says Stroll. He's told well done and mega drive. Replays show Bottas came from a long way back on the final straight to make that move.
Ricciardo's winning margin was 3.904s.
It's a shame Stroll lost second, but he's still on the podium. He's had a huge amount of criticism this season, but that's still a great result.
McLaren gives Alonso clearance to "have another go", presumably at catching Sainz, "then we bring it home".
Meanwhile, Ricciardo is two-and-a-half laps from his first win of 2017.
This is unbelievable pressure for Stroll.
At the start of lap 49 of 51, Stroll's advantage over Bottas is down to 2.8s.
Vandoorne is having a final push on Ericsson for 11th with three laps to run.
Vettel posted fastest lap last time round, a 1m43.441s.
Raikkonen has pitted, looks like Ferrari's retiring him. He was a lapped 14th anyway. Ferrari cites water pressure.
Vettel is now 2.3s behind Bottas in fourth place.

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