The Sky Sports stats team has been asking the question: When did Mercedes last have a double mechanical retirement? The answer they have come back with? The Italian Grand Prix... of 1955.

Mike K Douglas‏: How have Mercedes not noticed that Hamilton destroys tyres? He’s been struggling to keep them in shape for ages now and it’s getting worse! He makes super softs look like ultras!

Jacqui Baker-Stubbs: I’m not sure if I should be surprised that Kimi wasn’t asked to pull aside for Vettel?

Jeremiah Kariuki: Mercedes came to the track as the favourite. Everyone was saying this was their race to lose. And they did that. They lost the lost with some clumsy strategy.

You'll notice Fernando Alonso has taken eighth place there. About 15 minutes into the race, the McLaren driver was grumbling on his radio that he did not have the strategy to complete 71 laps. You can understand his cynicism, given his misfortunes at the past three races - but he not only finished, he picked up four points. That takes him on to 36 for the season.

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Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, who came third, said: "I told Max he had a very good race, very consistent, no mistakes.

"Obviously it would've been nice to start further up, I was left with no place to go at turn one and lost the momentum.

"It was damage limitation but the pace was very good and the tyre management was very good. A positive day but it could've been better."

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I talked a lot before the race about Daniel Ricciardo's birthday - but it is Sebastian Vettel who has got the present he wanted. Vettel, who turns 31 on Tuesday, will head to Silverstone for the British Grand Prix a point ahead of Lewis Hamilton in the championship standings. Let's hear from the Ferrari driver...

Kimi Raikkonen, who finished second: "I had to back off at turn one because the cars were squeezed together. After that, the car came good, but we just ran out of laps, and we took it easily too long. We had the right car, today, some points were a little bit difficult, but it was a good day for the team."

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Race winner Max Verstappen said: "It was amazing, very hard to manage the tyres, lot of blistering, but we manged to hand on. 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 very good day for me and I hope we can continue like this."

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Three of the top six in the drivers' championship failed to finish today, so that's mixed things up a touch...

1) VET 146

2) HAM 145

3) RAI 101

4) RIC 96

5) VER 93

6) BOT 92

Red Bull: "Spot on Max, that was textbook."

Verstappen: "Yesssss. This feel so [expletive deleted] good."

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner: "Well done Max, you've won the Austrian Grand Prix."

Verstappen: "This is amazing in front of tall those fans at the Red Bull Ring."

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"Wait until you see the rear tyres, they are going to be ugly."

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Romain. Enjoy the moment!

1) VER

2) RAI +1.504

3) VET +3.181

4) GRO +1 Lap

5) MAG +1 Lap

6) OCO +1 Lap

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Oh, and by the way, Romain Grosjean is fourth - collecting his first 12 points of the season.

Now THAT was a race.

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"This feels good!" shouts Max Verstappen over his team radio. There was another word in there, but I'm not allowed to broadcast it on the BBC.

Red Bull have never won at the Red Bull Ring...

The Dutch fans in the stands, a sea of orange, are cheering already. But their man is not there yet...

Max Verstappen is very, very close to his fourth career win, and his first of the season. But Kimi Raikkonen is only 2.403 seconds behind...

• Both Mercedes are out of the race, as is Ricciardo, Hulkenberg and Hartley.
• Verstappen, who started fourth is now first, more than three seconds in front of Raikkonen, with Vettel third.
• Hamilton, who started second, got a great start and overtook polesitter Bottas, who dropped from first to fourth on the first lap, before recovering back to second. However, Bottas' race ended on lap 14 because his car lost hydraulic pressure.
• Both Red Bulls and both Ferraris pit during the virtual safety car caused by Bottas' stop, but race leader Hamilton does not pit. When he does pit 10 laps later he drops from first to fourth. Mercedes' chief strategist admits blame for the mistake. Vettel gets past title rival Hamilton on lap 38 before the Brit has to stop from fourth with a power issue on lap 64.
• Ricciardo was fourth when he suffered a gear problem on lap 51 and eventually had to stop.

• Hulkenberg was the first man out of the race after his engine was spectacularly on fire on lap 12, with a mechanical fault taking out Hartley on lap 56.
• McLaren's Vandoorne had his front wing damaged early on but is able to continue but is last of those running, with team-mate Alonso eighth after starting from the pits.