A dominant 1-2 for one top team and a very bad day for its main rival, but McLaren and Red Bull weren't the only Formula 1 squads who had very contrasting fortunes in the Austrian Grand Prix.
Here's our pick of winners and losers from race day at the Red Bull Ring.
Loser: Red Bull - 16th/DNF
Red Bull enjoyed 77-straight points-scoring F1 weekends before this one.
Max Verstappen was taken out by Kimi Antonelli - both drivers handling that well - and Yuki Tsunoda couldn't get anywhere near rescuing the team's home race.
Tsunoda had a scrap with Lance Stroll early on and then swiped Franco Colapinto into a spin, taking a 10-second penalty and finishing two laps down in 16th place - far behind both Racing Bulls.
Red Bull has long had a second-driver problem, underlined not just by Sunday but by that points-scoring streak, during which Verstappen netted 68.4% of the team's points from Saudi Arabia 2022 to Canada 2025.
The answer isn't clear, and it probably doesn't lie in another hasty driver change. But it doesn't help matters that Tsunoda is floundering. - Samarth Kanal
Winner: Lando Norris - 1st
Boy did Lando Norris need that.
This wasn't the runaway victory that many might've expected after Norris's crushing qualifying display a day earlier. And maybe for some that means question marks remain over Norris, considering his affinity for the Red Bull Ring circuit.
That won't matter to Norris, who had an answer for everything Oscar Piastri threw at him. Job done, onto the next one. - Jack Cozens
Winner: Gabriel Bortoleto - 8th
That is exactly what Gabriel Bortoleto is capable of when it all comes together.
Starting eighth, finishing eighth, keeping his nose clean amid retirements and collisions, and even overtaking his manager Fernando Alonso.
The Sauber and Aston Martin finished half a second apart after a nailbiting late-race duel, and Alonso was clearly impressed by his protege as he congratulated the young Brazilian in parc ferme.
It was that middle medium-shod stint that earned Bortoleto this maiden points score, while Sauber graciously swapped him and Nico Hulkenberg before the halfway point to ensure fairness. Beating Alonso would have been the icing on the cake. - SK
Loser: Kimi Antonelli - DNF
Lap one exit. "Fully at fault" for it. Fairly anonymous all weekend before that.
Kimi Antonelli said pre-weekend he wanted to get "back a bit closer" to the approach he had for his first F1 weekend running at Monza last year, when he crashed early on in FP1.
The circumstances are different, but the end result was a little too close to being a repeat of that. - JC
Winner: McLaren - 1st/2nd
McLaren finds itself in the winners' column as much for allowing its two championship challengers to race each other as for its dominance. Especially two weeks on from the first on-track clash between Norris and Piastri.
It let its drivers race, it let both sides of the pitwall do the same, and it tackled Piastri's lunge at Turn 4 with the kind of message that wasn't overly harsh while leaving him in no doubt he'd crossed a line. His immediate post-race radio message, apologising for the incident, confirmed as much.
Oh, and it might have unleashed a package that's upgraded it from best to unbeatable. - JC
Winner: Liam Lawson - 6th
Liam Lawson looked a bit stunned after claiming the best result of his F1 career, equalling the sixth place rookie Racing Bulls team-mate Isack Hadjar managed in Monaco and finishing the weekend as the top-scoring driver from the Red Bull stable.
This result wasn't team-mate assisted like Hadjar's Monaco one was, it came from an excellent qualifying performance, a bit of luck surviving the Antonelli missile on lap one, and then a very well executed one-stop strategy. - Ben Anderson
Loser: Williams - DNF/DNF
A second double-DNF of the season threatens Williams's hopes of holding on to fifth in the constructors'.
Given Hulkenberg managed to score points for Sauber after qualifying 20th, his back-row partner Carlos Sainz's formation lap retirement in the pitlane will seem even more painful.
Alex Albon meanwhile was surely on for points, having broken free of a DRS train deadlock in the form of Pierre Gasly early in the race. Instead, Racing Bulls was best of the rest, Aston Martin scored again, Sauber got both cars in the points and Esteban Ocon swiped the last one for Haas in 10th.
Another chance missed by Williams, with reliability issues proving painful. - SK
Winner: Charles Leclerc - 3rd
Charles Leclerc probably won't feel like a winner, given the McLarens finished 20s up the road despite slowing each other up for the first 20 laps battling.
But with Verstappen out of the picture and George Russell's Mercedes wilting as expected in the heat, Leclerc achieved the best result he could realistically have expected for Ferrari and its all-new floor. - BA
Loser: Alpine - 13th/15th
A day where all four teams immediately ahead in the championship scored points has to go down as another loss for the beleaguered Alpine team.
Gasly looked to have a great shot at the top six, but his race fell apart as tyre degradation and what he felt was unspecified car damage made for an increasingly furious tumble down the order.
Team-mate Colapinto, already feeling the heat from Flavio Briatore for continued underperformance in qualifying, endured another difficult race with no points scored.
With Sauber managing to get both cars in the top 10 here, Alpine is now a massive 15 points adrift at the foot of the constructors' championship. - BA
Winner: Fernando Alonso - 7th
Typical Alonso. The veteran carried Aston Martin on his shoulders with a bold one-stop strategy in the blazing heat. He barely put a foot wrong over two incredibly consistent stints and even held off a hard-charging Bortoleto at the end - despite being on 17-lap-older hard tyres.
That second stint underlines just how talented Alonso is. He spent 36 laps on hard tyres, averaging 1m10.443s - three tenths of a second faster than Bortoleto's 26-lap middle stint on medium tyres, which itself was far from glacial. - SK
Loser: Mercedes - 5th/DNF
Russell's fifth place will probably do just fine for Mercedes. It suspected all weekend it might disappear from view on a long-corner circuit such as the Red Bull Ring and up against particularly high temperatures.
But let's not forget, fortuitous circumstances or not, it won this race in 2024. A year on, and Russell was more than a minute back from the race winner, more than 40s back from the lead Ferrari, and just five seconds clear of a Racing Bull.
And it's not like Antonelli looked like doing more than that this weekend before his early exit either, is it? - JC
Winner: Sauber - 8th/9th
A long wait for a double-points finish - 629 days, since the Qatar GP in October 2023 - is over for Sauber.
Sure, it could've been slightly better had Bortoleto been able to find a way around Alonso in the closing laps.
But this performance combined pace and strategic nous - Sauber got Hulkenberg into the points from the back of the field - and means Sauber has scored more points than any of its realistic rivals at the last four grands prix.
Evidence (if any was still needed) that the C45 is now right in the midfield mix. - JC
