I remember assuming this would go the way of all Red Bull Ring races (and yes, the clue is in the name), but then the start of the Verstappen vs Norris crash-a-rama of 2024 began.
To an extent, Verstappen is the monster F1 created for themselves. They've never penalised him for his over the aggressive/dangerous line manoeuvres*, so why is he going to stop. It was always going to take one of the other drivers doing the same back to make him stop, but no one really has since Hamilton, and Hamilton hasn't had the car to take the literal fight to him since 2021.
I admit I hadn't expected it to be Norris that took the fight to Verstappen, I'd assumed that he might have been cowed from previous experience in junior formula. I was wrong **.
Ferrari-wise, it was another race where one car did well, and one car did not. 11th, not good enough.
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* said with acknowledgement of the various attempted vehicular manslaughters one of my favourites was allowed to get away with
** I was expecting it to be Piastri.
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