DRIVER OF THE DAY: Fearless drive to P3 gets Norris your vote in Austria

He may have started on the front row, but he wasn't expecting to finish ahead of the Red Bulls and Mercedes in the race. In the end McLaren's Lando Norris beat one of each with a spectacular drive, despite picking up a time penalty in a Lap 1 wheel-to-wheel battle. Here’s how the voting broke down…
Lando Norris - 31.6%
Kimi Raikkonen - 15.7%
Max Verstappen - 9.2%
Daniel Ricciardo - 8.5%
George Russell - 7.7%__
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