The Austrian Grand Prix is a Formula One race which was held in 1964, 1970–1987, 1997–2003 and returned to the Formula One calendar in 2014 after the circuit's new owners Red Bull had reached an agreement with Bernie Ecclestone to revive the Austrian Grand Prix after a ten-year absence from the calendar.

The event visited two different locations in the Zeltweg area located in Spielberg in southeastern Austria.

The Grand Prix was first held at an airfield for two years, then moved to a permanent race track called the Österreichring was built in 1969 and Formula One first raced there in 1970 and each subsequent race has been held there in three distinct periods as the circuit has been redeveloped and sold.

 

Austrian Grand Prix, Round nine of the 2017 Formula 1 season

Circuit Name: Red Bull Ring

Race Laps: 71

Circuit Length: 4.326 km (2.688 mi)

Race Length: 307.146 km (190.848 mi)

Number of corners: 10 (7 Right, 3 Left)

DRS Zone: Two Zones (zone 1 Between turn 2 and 3, Zone 2 Start/Finish Line Between Turn 10 and 1)

Distance from Pole to T1 Apex: 330.8 m

Pole Position Side: Left

Pit Lane Length under Speed Limit Control: 358.1 m

Drive-Through Time at 80 km/h: 16.1 s

Lap Time at Full Throttle: 56 %

Gear Changes per lap: 32

Braking Events (>2G) 6

Heavy Braking Events (<0.4s @ >4G) 4

Fuel Consumption: Medium

Maximum Lateral G-Force: 4.4 G

Maximum Speed: 322 km/h

Track Evolution (P1 – Qualifying): High

 Key Overtaking Opportunities: T2, T3

Circuit Direction: Clockwise

Pole Position 2016: Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes 1:07.922

Race Track Record: 1:08.337 Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) 2003

Absolute Lap Record: 1:06.228 Lewis Hamilton, Q2, 2016

 

Pirelli used compounds

Tyres that must be available (one of them to be used) at some point in the race:

One set of P Zero Yellow soft

One set of P Zero Red Super-Soft

Tyres assigned for Q3 in qualifying:                     

One set of P Zero Purple Ultra-Soft

Teams/Drivers compounds choice

Driver	Soft	Super-Soft	Ultra-Soft
Lewis Hamilton	2	3	8
Valtteri Bottas	1	4	8
Daniel Ricciardo	2	2	9
Max Verstappen	2	2	9
Sebastian Vettel	1	5	7
Kimi Raikkonen	2	4	7
Sergio Perez	1	2	10
Esteban Ocon	1	2	10
Lance Stroll	1	4	8
Felipe Massa	2	3	8
Stoffel Vandoorne	1	2	10
Fernando Alonso	1	2	10
Daniil Kvyat	2	3	8
Carlos Sainz	2	3	8
Romain Grosjean	1	5	7
Kevin Magnussen	1	5	7
Nico Hulkenberg	2	3	8
Jolyon Palmer	2	3	8
Marcus Ericsson	2	4	7
Pascal Wehrlein	3	3	7

 

THE CIRCUIT FROM A TYRE POINT OF VIEW:

 

MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING

“The natural selection for this type of circuit is the three softest compounds in the range. Having said that, we’ve seen in the past that Austria also has the capability to spring a few surprises. When we get there we’ll see if one stops or two are more likely, but it will be important for teams to build some flexibility into the strategies as well. Longitudinal forces – so traction and braking – are the key aspects in Austria, rather than cornering. In spite of that, there’s still a good chance of the lap record coming down, as we saw in Baku”.

 

AUSTRIA MINIMUM STARTING PRESSURES (SLICKS)

EOS CAMBER LIMIT

 

Austrian Grand Prix Winners 1964 – 2016

 

Year		Driver	Constructor	Location
2016		Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	Red Bull Ring
2015		Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
2014		Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
2013		Not held
–
2004
2003		Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	A1-Ring
2002		Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2001		David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes
2000		Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
1999		Eddie Irvine	Ferrari
1998		Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
1997		Jacques Villeneuve	Williams-Renault
1996		Not held
–
1988
1987		Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	Österreichring
1986		Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG
1985		Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG
1984		Niki Lauda	McLaren-TAG
1983		Alain Prost	Renault
1982		Elio de Angelis	Lotus-Ford
1981		Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Matra
1980		Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault
1979		Alan Jones	Williams-Ford
1978		Ronnie Peterson	Lotus-Ford
1977		Alan Jones	Shadow-Ford
1976		John Watson	Penske-Ford
1975		Vittorio Brambilla	March-Ford
1974		Carlos Reutemann	Brabham-Ford
1973		Ronnie Peterson	Lotus-Ford
1972		Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus-Ford
1971		Jo Siffert	BRM
1970		Jacky Ickx	Ferrari
1969		Not held
–
1965
1964		Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari	Zeltweg Airfield

 

 

Multiple Winners (Drivers)

 

# wins	Driver	Years
3	Alain Prost	1983, 1985, 1986
2	Ronnie Peterson	1973, 1978
	Alan Jones	1977, 1979
	Mika Hakkinen	1998, 2000
	Michael Schumacher	2002, 2003
	Nico Rosberg	2014, 2015

  

Multiple Winners (Constructors)

 

# Wins	Constructor	Years Won
6	McLaren	1984, 1985, 1986, 1998, 2000, 2001
5	Ferrari	1964, 1970, 1999, 2002, 2003
4	Lotus	1972, 1973, 1978, 1982
3	Williams	1979, 1987, 1997
	Mercedes	2014, 2015, 2016
2	Renault	1980, 1983

 

Numbers and Facts

 

Most wins (driver) 3, Alain Prost 1983 – 1985 – 1986 (Michael Schumacher + Mika Hakkinen each with 2 wins)

Most wins (constructor) 6,McLaren (1984 – 1985 – 1986 – 1998 – 2000 – 2001)

Wins from pole position 8 (1971 – 1972 – 1978 – 1985 – 1997 – 2000 – 2003 – 2016)

Lowest grid for past winner 14, Alan Jones – 1977 (Here: David Coulthard, P7 in 2001)

Most recent 1-2 finish 2015 Mercedes (Nico Rosberg – Lewis Hamilton)

Most emphatic win (here) 1986 1 lap, Alain Prost – Michele Alboreto (2000, 12.535s between Mika Hakkinen + David Coulthard)

Closest winning margin 1982, 0.05s, Elio de Angelis – Keke Rosberg (Here: 2002, 0.182s between M.Schumacher – R.Barrichello)

Rain-affected races 3 (1975 – 1976 – 1978)

Safety Car-affected races 7 1998 – 2000 – 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2015 – 2016

Red Flag (and result declared) races 1, 1975 (Chequered flag shown @ 29/ 54 laps) Red flagged in ‘78 and restarted, red flagged twice in ‘87 and started 3 times!

Fastest race 1975, 29 laps @ 57’56.69 (full distance GP – 1987, 52 laps @ 1:18’44.898) (2003, 71 laps @ 1:24’04.888)

Slowest race 1964, 105 laps @ 2:06’18.23 (2002, 69 laps @ 1:33’51.562)

Most pole positions (driver) 3 Niki Lauda (1974 – 1975 – 1977) and Rene Arnoux (1979 – 1980 – 1981) (Here: M.Schumacher + Hakkinen 2 pp)

Most pole positions (constructor) 7, Ferrari (1974 – 1975 – 1977 – 1983 – 2001 – 2002 – 2003) Ferrari most (at RBR also), 3

 

What Happened last race here?

Lewis Hamilton started the race from pole and went on to win the race after colliding with Rosberg on the final lap; as a result, Rosberg finished fourth behind Max Verstappen and Kimi Raikkonen.

2016 Race Classification

Pos.	Driver	Constructor	Time/Retired	Grid
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:27:38.107	1
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	+5.719	8
3	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	+6.024	4
4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	+26.710	6
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	+30.98	5
6	Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda	+37.706	3
7	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	+44.668	13
8	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	+47.400	15
9	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	+1 lap	7
10	Pascal Wehrlein	MRT-Mercedes	+1 lap	12
11	Esteban Gutierrez	Haas-Ferrari	+1 lap	11
12	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	+1 lap	19
13	Felipe Nasr	Sauber-Ferrari	+1 lap	21
14	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	+1 lap	17
15	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	+1 lap	18
16	Rio Haryanto	MRT-Mercedes	+1 lap	20
17	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	Accident	16
18	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda	Battery	14
19	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	Brakes	2
20	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	Brakes	PL
Ret	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	Accident	9
Ret	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	Mechanical	PL

 

Did you know?

DRIVERS

✪ Sebastian Vettel has still not won back-to-back Grand Prix since he won the 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix. That race ended a 9-race run of victories that started in Belgium, (BEL, ITA, SIN, KOR, JAP, IND, ABU, USA, BRA)

✪ Vettel will celebrated his 30th birthday last Monday on 3rd July

✪ Vettel must avoid getting 3 or more penalty points in Austria. He is currently on 9 points and a ban will kick-in if he reaches 12. He loses 2 points but not until the Monday after the race

✪ Vettel and Lewis Hamilton are the only drivers to have finished in the points in all races so far this season

✪ Hamilton is just 2 pole positions from equalling Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 68 F1 GP pole positions. Since he has been at Mercedes he has taken pole 40 times already. That is nearly 50% of all races he’s started for the team (40/ 83 = 48.2%). ✪ Hamilton has won (56) 28.7% of all GP he’s started (196) and is in the top 10 drivers races to win ratio of all-time. This is how he compares:-1. Fangio 47.0%, 2. Ascari 40.6%, 3. Clark 34.7%, 4. M. Schumacher 29.7%, 5. Hamilton 28.6%, 6. Ja. Stewart 27.2%, 7. Prost 25.6%, 8. A. Senna 25.5%, 9=. Vettel 24.2% (45/ 186) AND S. Moss 24.2%

✪ Hamilton starting to trouble Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 116 front row starts. Hamilton has to date started 111 Grand Prix from the front row

✪ In Baku Valtteri Bottas’s beat Gilles Villeneuve, Jochen Rindt, Francois Cevert, Didier Pironi and Nick Heidfeld’s 13 F1 career podiums

✪ Kimi Raikkonen’s next win if ever it comes will be the 21st of his F1 career and will also be the most by a Finnish driver in F1. Currently he shares the record of 20 wins

by a Finn with Mika Hakkinen

✪ Daniel Ricciardo will celebrated his 28th birthday last Saturday, 1st July

✪ The Spanish Grand Prix marked the first anniversary of Max Verstappen’s first Grand Prix win. He has until the Singapore Grand Prix in September to win a second while still a teenager. (20th birthday on September 30th 2017). He is of course, so far the only teenager in F1 history to win a F1 World Championship Grand Prix and could still become the only teenager to take pole position too for a F1 World Championship Grand Prix. Max and Ricardo Rodriguez who started the 1961 Italian Grand Prix from P2 in his Ferrari when aged 19 years and 208 days are the only teenage drivers to date to have started a Grand Prix from the front row (Max the youngest, at the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix where he started P2 he was aged18 years and 333 days

✪ Sergio Perez needs just 1 more podium to become the Mexican driver with the most F1 podiums (currently = with Pedro Rodriguez on 7)

 

CONSTRUCTORS

✪ Ferrari has still not scored consecutive pole positions since Fernando Alonso took pole for the Scuderia at the 2012 British and German Grand Prix and has still not

scored a consecutive front row lock-out since Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa lock-out the front row for the 2006 US and French Grand Prix

✪ Ferrari last season was the only team to score championship points at all 21 events

✪ Mercedes in Austria will be aiming to lockout the front row for the 50th time. The all-time record is 62 and is jointly held by McLaren and Williams

✪ Mercedes and Red Bull are just 2 podiums apart. Mercedes has 138 podium places to date while Red bull has 140. The most is Ferrari with 715

✪ Red Bull has achieved a podium result for at least one of their drivers in 104 different F1 Grand Prix. Mercedes has achieved their podium score in 88 Grand Prix

✪ The current Williams team traces its origins back to the setting up of Williams Grand Prix Engineering by Frank Williams and Patrick Head in 1977. This year the team will be celebrating its 40th anniversary. The team began by running a March for Belgian Patrick Neve who sadly died earlier is year and later in 1978, became a constructor running a single FW06 car for Alan Jones. In 1979 the team expanded to 2 cars with Clay Regazzoni joining Jones. Regazzoni won Williams’s first Grand Prix, at Silversone in 1979 while Jones claimed Williams’s first driver’s and first constructor’s titles in 1980. Frank Williams had made his first forays into F1 in 1969, running a Brabham for Piers Courage. Campaigns with De Tomaso, private March’s, with his own cars and ex-works Heskeths latterly in conjunction with Canadian-Austrian entrepreneur Walter Wolf followed but it wasn’t until Williams teamed up with Head and started a new team all over again that Williams’s F1 fortunes really took off 

✪ Azerbaijan marked the 100th Grand Prix since Williams last won a race (Spain 2012 with Pastor Maldonado)

✪ Williams last led a Grand Prix here 3 years ago. They have competed 59 times since

✪ The TAG-Heuer engine won its third Grand Prix in Azerbaijan. It is the same number of F1 World Championship Grand Prix as won by the Matra engine

 

AUSTRIN GRAND PRIX

✪ This year is the 30th F1 World Championship-qualifying Austrian GP. 2017 is also the 30th anniversary of the final Austrian GP to run on the full Osterreichring

✪ Mercedes chasing a record-breaking 4th Austrian GP victory in a row. Mercedes currently shares the 3-in-a-row record with McLaren (1984, 1985 and 1986)

✪ Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes chasing both a hat trick of 2017 poles and a hat trick of Austrian GP poles. Of the latter, only Rene Arnoux and Renault (1979 – 1980 - 1981) have previously achieved the Austrian GP pole position hat trick

✪ Hamilton is the only driver racing this year who has previously won the Austrian GP, while he and Felipe Massa are the only drivers racing here this year who have previously taken pole position for the Austrian GP

Driver’s Championship standing

Pos	Driver	Car	Points
1	Sebastian Vettel	FERRARI	153
2	Lewis Hamilton	MERCEDES	139
3	Valtteri Bottas	MERCEDES	111
4	Daniel Ricciardo	RED BULL RACING TAG HEUER	92
5	Kimi Raikkonen	FERRARI	73
6	Max Verstappen	RED BULL RACING TAG HEUER	45
7	Sergio Perez	FORCE INDIA MERCEDES	44
8	Esteban Ocon	FORCE INDIA MERCEDES	35
9	Carlos Sainz	TORO ROSSO	29
10	Felipe Massa	WILLIAMS MERCEDES	20
11	Nico Hulkenberg	RENAULT	18
12	Lance Stroll	WILLIAMS MERCEDES	17
13	Kevin Magnussen	HAAS FERRARI	11
14	Romain Grosjean	HAAS FERRARI	10
15	Pascal Wehrlein	SAUBER FERRARI	5
16	Daniil Kvyat	TORO ROSSO	4
17	Fernando Alonso	MCLAREN HONDA	2
18	Jolyon Palmer	RENAULT	0
19	Marcus Ericsson	SAUBER FERRARI	0
20	Stoffel Vandoorne	MCLAREN HONDA	0
21	Antonio Giovinazzi	SAUBER FERRARI	0

 

Constructor’s Championship standing

Pos	Team	Points
1	MERCEDES	250
2	FERRARI	226
3	RED BULL RACING TAG HEUER	137
4	FORCE INDIA MERCEDES	79
5	WILLIAMS MERCEDES	37
6	TORO ROSSO	33
7	HAAS FERRARI	21
8	RENAULT	18
9	SAUBER FERRARI	5
10	MCLAREN HONDA	2

 

Driver’s penalty points:

Driver	Penalty points
Sebastian Vettel	9
Carlos Sainz	7
Kevin Magnussen	5
Jolyon Palmer	5
Sergio Perez	5
Daniil Kvyat	5
Nico Hulkenberg	4
Esteban Ocon	4
Romain Grosjean	3
Stoffel Vandoorne	3
Pascal Wehrlein	2
Kimi Raikkonen	2
Felipe Massa	2
Lewis Hamilton	2
Jenson Button	2
Max Verstappen	1