Lando Norris came out on top when he and Oscar Piastri had their first full-on head-to-head fight for a grand prix victory of their 2025 Formula 1 world championship battle in Austria.
There were some fraught moments both on track and on the radio along the way, but it ended with a McLaren 1-2 and its drivers even further clear of everyone else in the points.
In McLaren's wake, at Red Bull's own circuit it watched Max Verstappen get wiped out on lap one and Yuki Tsunoda finish last.
Here's our snap verdict on McLaren and Red Bull's contrasting days.
Not perfect - but Norris proved a lot
Scott Mitchell-Malm
This should go down as one of Norris's best weekends in F1. He's had more commanding, easier wins but the hard-fought nature of this one counts for a lot.
Norris wasn't perfect and was lucky not to be punished more for running wide out of the final corner. But he played a part in that as he handled the subsequent attack from Piastri - just as he had done earlier in the first stint.
It was a very good show of racecraft which hasn't always been Norris's strongest suit. So this proved something, as did the weekend as a whole.
He's rallied strongly from a big disappointment in Canada and in the face of mounting pressure to get his title bid on track. Now comes the small matter of doing this consistently.
McLaren masterclass underlined Red Bull's big problem
Gary Anderson
The battle at the front was what racing is all about: McLaren letting two drivers fight it out, but more importantly rapping Piastri's knuckles for an over-adventurous dive early on at Turn 4.
The best McLaren finished roughly 20 seconds ahead of the first Ferrari in third, 61s ahead of the best Mercedes in fifth, 65s ahead of the best 'Red Bull 2' in sixth, 68s ahead of the best Aston Martin in seventh and 69s ahead of the best Sauber in eighth. And missing from the points was Red Bull itself.
Yuki Tsunoda, after a 10s penalty for dodgem driving which didn't actually make much difference, finished twice lapped and last in 16th - and that's only because we lost both Williamses (which would probably have finished ahead of him) with reliability problems.
This just shows how much work the others have to do, but even more it shows how much Red Bull is a one-car team. Lose Max Verstappen - as it did with accident damage on the first lap - and it's basically game over.
It's not just a matter of replacing Tsunoda with Liam Lawson (again) or Isack Hadjar, or in fact anyone else. The car just doesn't suit what are basically decent drivers.
It also opens up the big question: what would Verstappen do in another car?
We will probably never know.
Red Bull's problem is car design not driver mismanagement
Matt Beer
You could look at McLaren finishing a dominant and well-managed 1-2 with two young drivers it's happy to let fight each other for a championship on a day when Red Bull had to rely on its second driver and watched him finish last, and see it all as some indictment of Red Bull's long-term driver strategy versus McLaren's.
It's simpler than that. Red Bull's got stuck in a rut of problematic cars. Thanks to its own foresight in snatching him when it could and promoting him into places rivals might not have dared, it has an all-time-great lead driver who can still drag things out of those cars.
When McLaren was in a mess not so long ago, Norris and Piastri were stuck in it together. It's not like Red Bull hasn't tried to find competitive drivers to put alongside Verstappen - it's just churning through rookies it genuinely believed in. Norris and Piastri are admittedly better than all of those Red Bull prospects, but not by as much as it looks on a day like this.
And while McLaren now looks like it has enough of a margin to just let Piastri and Norris get on with their own private title fight free-for-all, long term you can still see it losing titles to a rival with a clear number one - unless one of its current pair slips into the 'David Coulthard zone' while the other becomes this era's Mika Hakkinen.
Such a refreshing battle
Samarth Kanal
The McLaren duel was just refreshing to see.
No silly games: pushing someone onto the runoff, clamouring over the radio to get another driver penalised, weaving under braking...
This was just mature, proper racecraft, the likes of which we haven't seen enough in recent F1.
Sure, it was an intra-team battle - so Norris and Piastri knew what was at stake - but even that can go so wrong, as we saw last time in Canada.
It did almost go very wrong when Piastri locked up and nearly hit Norris, but McLaren swiftly underlined to Piastri that this was unacceptable.
Well done to the team for encouraging such a battle between its drivers. Fair play to Piastri for pushing so hard.
But it was Norris - who I doubted last time in Canada - who proved me wrong with a solid show of defence.
All of this will be tested later in the season when McLaren's rivalry heats up. For now, I'm enjoying the show.
