Max Verstappen won Red Bull’s home Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday while Lewis Hamilton suffered his first race retirement since 2016 and lost the Formula One championship lead to Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel. The victory was the 20-year-old Dutch driver’s first of the season, fourth of his career, and came in front of an army of orange-shirted fans packing the grandstands and then flooding onto the track at the finish. Kimi Raikkonen was a close second, with teammate Vettel third to claw back the overall lead by a single point from Hamilton, their Mercedes rival whose record run of 33 successive scoring finishes ended. "It was amazing, very hard to manage the tyres, lots of blistering, but we managed to hang on," said Verstappen. "It was amazing to win at the Red Bull Ring with so many Dutch fans here. I needed to catch up with the points, today was a good day for me, and I hope we can continue like this." Vettel, who started sixth after collecting a three-place grid penalty, now has 1...
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