Motor racing-Red Bull ready to turn the screw on Mercedes


FILE PHOTO: Formula One F1 - Steiermark Grand Prix - Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Styria, Austria - June 27, 2021 Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton during a press conference FIA/Handout via REUTERS

(Reuters) - Formula One leaders Red Bull can apply another turn of the screw to Lewis Hamilton's title hopes in Austria this weekend as pacesetter Max Verstappen and team mate Sergio Perez chase their fifth win in a row.

The talk since the start of the season has been of a wheel-to-wheel title duel down to the wire between Mercedes' seven- times champion and Verstappen, the 23-year-old Dutch heir apparent.

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