[jasontoddwhitt]

After three straight finishes in the points, it was on to Austria. It was a recipe for disaster. There was no way the gearbox was going to last one more race, so we had to take a grid penalty. The Red Bull Ring is a power circuit...and as such, it's not going to be pretty for us. And for the first time in several races, we don't make it out of Q1, qualifying 16th. The grid penalty drops us to 20th.

So it's a last-to-first challenge! Yeah, that didn't happen.

The track was rough on my tires, and as such, I ended up having to make a second pit stop. Ended up going a lap down, and finished in 14th place behind Lance Stroll. Lewis Hamilton ran away with the race as Mercedes cut into Ferrari's lead in the constructor's championship. Bottas leads Raikkonen in the driver's championship by a single point. I sit one point behind Perez for 7th place in the driver's race. By finishing out of the points, Haas was able to jump us for fifth place in the constructor's race, a single point ahead of us.