The Austrian Grand Prix completed just before 11:00 a.m. Eastern time this morning, yet the results you saw were overturned more than four hours later.
Max Verstappen retained his lead, but a series of 12 distinct time penalties imposed after a review of an extraordinary amount of track rules violations resulted in significant changes across the top ten.
The FIA had already indicated earlier today that due to the large number of recorded track limits violations (over 1200), the infractions could not be examined during the race.
The fact meant that race control did the majority of the post-race officiating, eventually deciding on enough penalties that the actual penalty structure had to be clarified in a way that made the
decisions more forgiving: four infractions meant a five second penalty, and five meant ten, but instead of adding five seconds for each subsequent off-track excursion, the series decided that the counter would reset after every five infractions.
This meant that Esteban Ocon, who committed a particularly egregious amount of trips off the racing surface, was penalized four times for a total of 30 seconds on the final scoring sheet.
The more significant penalties were handed out to Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton, while penalties handed out to Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Logan Sargeant, Nyck de Vries, and Yuki Tsunoda bring the total number of time penalties handed out to an even dozen.
Officials from the series have already demanded that the circuit fix the issue, but gravel traps in the two fast corners most impacted have been
deemed problematic because MotoGP also competes at the Red Bull Ring. Hopefully, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone next weekend will be less perplexing.