In the first Grand Prix held in Austria since 2003, champions Red Bull were eclipsed at their own track with quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel retiring and Australian Daniel Ricciardo finishing eighth.
Nico Rosberg won race in a Mercedes one-two finish last Sunday to stretch his championship lead over team mate Lewis Hamilton to 29 points after eight races.
Williams drivers Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa, who had started on the front row, finished third and fourth respectively.
The race was decided in the pitstops, with Rosberg starting in third place with Massa leading away from pole while Hamilton made a sensational leap from ninth to fourth at the end of the opening lap.
Bottas, celebrating his first Formula One podium, led for a lap after Massa’s first stop that saw the Brazilian drop down the order and was ecstatic with his team’s best performance since 2012.
Mexican Sergio Perez also led the field for Force India until Rosberg hit the front on lap 28 with Bottas caught in a Mercedes sandwich and making it hard for Hamilton to overtake.
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso finished fifth, after also briefly leading, with Perez sixth and Danish rookie Kevin Magnussen seventh for McLaren.
Germany’s Nico Hulkenberg was ninth for Force India after being overtaken on the final lap by Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo and Kimi Raikkonen took the final point for Ferrari.
Source: Reuters