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By: Geoff Creighton

Summary

Status: Stopped
Thanks for joining us for our Austrian Grand Prix coverage. We'll be back next Friday for free practice from Silverstone. Remember to check back on autosport.com for all the latest race news and reaction. In the meantime, here's our full report:
Austrian Grand Prix: Bottas fends off Vettel for second F1 win
Ricciardo celebrates on the podium. Pic: LAT Images

Ricciardo celebrates on the podium. Pic: LAT Images

Bottas on getting close to the championship fight: "We're not even in the halfway of the year. I believe, the team believes."
Ricciardo attempts to make Bottas drink from the shoe, but Bottas refuses! Brundle has, however, taken a drink and says his plan is to auction it for charity!
 
 
Ricciardo: "It was a fun race, some decisive moments at the start and then defending Lewis the last couple of laps. It got pretty close but I stuck to my braking points and where I thought the limit was."
Vettel: "I felt much happier in the second stint, the first part I was struggling a bit to feel the car. As soon as we put on the super-soft, it came alive. The last laps, it was getting really close, I think I needed one more lap because he was struggling to get up the hill."
Bottas celebrates. Pic: LAT Images.

Bottas celebrates. Pic: LAT Images.

Bottas on his start: "I think that was the start of my life, I was just really on it today."
Bottas: "I had a bit of a deja vu in the end to what happened in Russia. In the last stint, I had a massive blister in the rear left, so that made it quite tricky. In the beginning I could control the pace, but in the end the backmarkers made it quite tricky."
And Vettel and Bottas are now out there. Here's the Finnish national anthem for the second time this year.
Bottas crosses the line to win. Pic: LAT Images

Bottas crosses the line to win. Pic: LAT Images

 
Ricciardo heads out onto the podium.
"He jumped it, 100%," jokes Vettel to Ricciardo about Bottas's brilliant start.
The drivers are in the podium ante-chamber. Bottas and Vettel are having a chat.
Raikkonen crosses the line in fifth place.
Ricciardo holds third ahead of Hamilton.
Valtteri Bottas wins the Austrian Grand Prix. Vettel is just 0.658s behind in second.
Bottas comes out of the last corner ahead.
 
Vettel is now right with Bottas but there's only a few corners remaining.
But Ricciardo is OK into Turn 3. Looks like he's safe in third now.
Hamilton is going to be able to attack Ricciardo into Turn 3.
Vettel starts the last lap 0.7s behind Bottas.
Hamilton has a great run on Ricciardo down to Turn 4 and tries to go around the outside. He can't quite make it stick and Ricciardo keeps third.
Vettel isn't close enough to challenge into Turn 3. Meanwhile, Hamilton is now right on top of Ricciardo into Turn 3.
Vettel is right with Bottas into Turn 1 on the penultimate lap.
Ocon has just three laps to hold on to eighth in the only midfield battle that's close.
Vettel has the gap down to 0.8s with two laps remaining. He's going to be in DRS range!
Three laps to go: Bottas leads Vettel by 1.2s. in the battle for third, Hamilton is only 0.5s behind Ricciardo.
Vettel clears Perez, but that's cost him a good three-tenths.
Bottas laps Perez into Turn 3 without losing much time. Vettel is now behind the Force India and losing time.
"Keep an eye on these tyres, I'm a little bit worried about them," says Hamilton.
Hamilton is now just 1s behind Ricciardo. Ricciardo lost a little time in traffic on lap 62/71.
 
Raikkonen, in fifth place, is now 12.5s behind Hamilton. He's 38s clear of Grosjean so unless anything unexpected happens, he's going to finish there.
Another Hamilton fastest lap - 1m07.511s. The gap to Ricciardo is now 1.7s.
Bottas's lead is down to 2.9s on lap 61/71. Vettel is gradually whittling away at the gap, but not quickly enough.

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