Pascal Wehrlein scored his first point in the Austrian Grand Prix – and was voted Driver of the Weekend by F1 Fanatic readers.
Pascal Wehrlein’s Austrian Grand Prix weekend
An encouraging 13th in the final practice session indicated that on the power-dependent Red Bull Ring a Manor could make it into Q2 on merit. Wehrlein delivered the goods with a superb lap in Q1 and went on to equal the team’s highest starting position so far with 12th.
He nearly started even higher after incorrectly lining up in the tenth place spot left vacant by Felipe Massa. Having had the presence of mind to reverse into the correct position, moment after the start Wehrlein found himself having to back off as he was pincered by two rivals at turn three.
Avoiding the super-soft, Wehrlein ran two stints on the ultra-softs before running to the end on the softs. This minimised the time lost to blue flags and left him well-placed to benefit from Sergio Perez’s last-lap retirement, claiming an excellent tenth and the first point of his F1 career..
Classified 12th with a Manor while his teammate was out in Q1, finished 10th and brought home points for only the second time in the team history. It reminded me of Bianchi when a saw a Manor in the points again. Werhlein is the man!
@GabrielRocha
Wehrlein and Button were the two contenders for flawless weekends, but in the end I give it to Wehrlein for destroying Haryanto in the same car and for a Bianchi-esque drive.
Uzair Syed (@Ultimateuzair)
I have to admit that I have been a bit disappointed by him so far this season, I don’t follow any feeder series but reading about the two Manor drivers journey to F1 at the start of the season I thought Wehrlein would easily have the beating of Haryanto, but so far that hasn’t really been the case.
That changed this weekend when he showed what he is capable of, getting the Manor into Q2 on merit and qualifying twelfth and then managing to score his first points in F1 with a tenth place finish.
@PJA
Utterly amazing, scored points and he was the star of qualifying. Manor thoroughly deserved that.
@Geemac
Austrian Grand Prix winners and losers
Jenson Button, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton took most of the rest of the votes. However nobody voted for either of the Williams or Renault drivers.
Button timed his qualifying run to perfection to maximise his chance of a drying track, nailed the race start and then held off quicker cars for longer than expected before overtaking quicker cars to finish an outperforming 6th position.
@GregKingston
Easy pick for Verstappen for me. Beat his teammate fair and square and reached the podium on his own merit.
Ronald (@Mosquito)
Race | DOTW winner | Votes |
---|---|---|
2016 Australian Grand Prix | Romain Grosjean | 61.0% |
2016 Bahrain Grand Prix | Romain Grosjean | 39.4% |
2016 Chinese Grand Prix | Daniel Ricciardo | 44.7% |
2016 Russian Grand Prix | Kevin Magnussen | 32.6% |
2016 Spanish Grand Prix | Max Verstappen | 68.5% |
2016 Monaco Grand Prix | Daniel Ricciardo | 49.6% |
2016 Canadian Grand Prix | Lewis Hamilton | 28.5% |
2016 European Grand Prix | Sergio Perez | 67.3% |
2016 Austrian Grand Prix | Pascal Wehrlein | 43.2% |
2016 Austrian Grand Prix
- Long stint didn’t cause Vettel’s tyre blow-out in Austria
- Point earns Wehrlein Driver of the Weekend win
- 2016 Austrian Grand Prix team radio transcript
- 2016 Austrian Grand Prix Predictions Championship results
- Why boo that? Strong rating for suspenseful Austrian GP
ColdFly F1 (@)
8th July 2016, 13:55
Congratulations to Pascal with his well deserved win.
PS (nothing to do with DOTW or F1) – why do people use ‘dependant’ instead of ‘dependent’ (when used as an adjective).
George (@george)
8th July 2016, 18:05
http://grammarist.com/spelling/dependant-dependent/ Apparently just use whatever takes your fancy ;)
Sergey Martyn
8th July 2016, 19:17
Still remember his blasting and relentless drive to victory at Moscow Raceway DTM event last year.
That was a revalation of pure speed and total control – I couldn’t believe anyone could drive that fast.
Got his autograph and chatted with him a little at the free zone – just imagine that in F1…
Forza Pascal!