Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has won the Austrian Grand Prix after beating Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in a wheel-banging battle of the 21-year-olds, subject to a Formula One stewards’ inquiry.

The Dutchman’s victory for the second year in a row at Spielberg also dealt champions Mercedes their first defeat of the season.

Verstappen seized the lead from Leclerc, who had led from pole position, two laps from the end with the duelling pair making contact into the tight uphill turn three as the crowd roared.

He crossed the line, acclaimed by thousands of orange-shirted Dutch fans at a circuit owned by Red Bull, 2.7 seconds ahead of the Monegasque. The pair were the sport’s youngest ever top two.

Valtteri Bottas was third for Mercedes, who saw their streak of 10 successive wins – eight this season – come to an end on Sunday.

Championship-leading teammate Lewis Hamilton, winner of the previous four races, finished fifth and behind Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel.

Australia’s Daniel Ricciardo finished 12th for Renault.

Five-times world champion Hamilton remains well in front in the standings, 31 clear of Finland’s Bottas after nine of 21 races.

Verstappen, now with six career wins if confirmed, was also the last driver to beat Mercedes – in the Mexican Grand Prix last October.

“For Honda to win again here is incredible,” said Verstappen, who had to fight back from eighth at the end of the first lap after getting bogged down on the front row at the start.

“After that start, I thought the race was over,” he said.

“It’s hard racing, otherwise we have to stay at home. If those things are not allowed in racing, then what’s the point of being in Formula One,” he added when asked about the summons.

Lerclerc, forced wide as Verstappen went through, said he would let the stewards decide.

“On the incident for me it was pretty clear in the car,” he said.

“I don’t know what it looked like from the outside but we’ll see what the decision is.

“We touched and I had to go wide, and I didn’t have a chance to fight back.”

British rookie Lando Norris finished sixth for McLaren, who also had Spaniard Carlos Sainz eighth.

Verstappen’s under-fire French teammate Pierre Gasly was seventh, while Alfa Romeo had a double points finish with Raikkonen ninth and Antonio Giovinazzi 10th. The point was the Italian’s first in Formula One.

Sunday’s race saw no major incident with all of the 20 cars making it to the flag.