Race · Round 9 of 21 ·
2018 Austrian Grand Prix
Max Verstappen won for Red Bull Racing from 4th on the grid at Red Bull Ring. 5 of the starters were not classified.
Dry · High of 20 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)
How it is modelled
ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.
- Circuit
- Red Bull RingSpielberg, Austria
- Winner
- Max VerstappenRed Bull Racing
- Pole
- Valtteri Bottas
- Fastest lap
- Kimi Raikkonen
- Entries
- 2015 classified
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | RB14 | 4 | 71 | Finished | 25 | |
| 2 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | SF71H | 3 | 71 | Finished | 18 | fastest lap |
| 3 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | SF71H | 6 | 71 | Finished | 15 | |
| 4 | Romain Grosjean | Haas F1 Team | VF-18 | 5 | 70 | Finished | 12 | |
| 5 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | VF-18 | 8 | 70 | Finished | 10 | |
| 6 | Esteban Ocon | Force India | VJM11 | 11 | 70 | Finished | 8 | |
| 7 | Sergio Perez | Force India | VJM11 | 15 | 70 | Finished | 6 | |
| 8 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren | MCL33 | PL | 70 | Finished | 4 | |
| 9 | Charles Leclerc | Sauber | C37 | 17 | 70 | Finished | 2 | |
| 10 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | C37 | 18 | 70 | Finished | 1 | |
| 11 | Pierre Gasly | Scuderia Toro Rosso | STR13 | 12 | 70 | Finished | 0 | |
| 12 | Carlos Sainz | Renault | R.S.18 | 9 | 70 | Finished | 0 | |
| 13 | Sergey Sirotkin | Williams | FW41 | 16 | 69 | Finished | 0 | |
| 14 | Lance Stroll | Williams | FW41 | 13 | 69 | Finished | 0 | |
| 15 | Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren | MCL33 | 14 | 65 | Collision damage | 0 | |
| DNF | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | F1 W09 | 2 | 62 | Fuel pressure | 0 | |
| DNF | Brendon Hartley | Scuderia Toro Rosso | STR13 | 19 | 54 | Hydraulics | 0 | |
| DNF | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing | RB14 | 7 | 53 | Exhaust | 0 | |
| DNF | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | F1 W09 | 1 | 13 | Hydraulics | 0 | |
| DNF | Nico Hulkenberg | Renault | R.S.18 | 10 | 11 | Engine | 0 |
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.
Grid to flag
Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 77 | 1:04.175 | 1:03.756 | 1:03.130 | — | 0 m | — |
| 2 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:04.080 | 1:03.577 | 1:03.149 | +0.019 | 1 m | +0.019 |
| 3 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 5 | 1:04.347 | 1:03.544 | 1:03.464 | +0.334 | 23 m | +0.315 |
| 4 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 7 | 1:04.234 | 1:03.975 | 1:03.660 | +0.530 | 36 m | +0.196 |
| 5 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 33 | 1:04.273 | 1:04.001 | 1:03.840 | +0.710 | 49 m | +0.180 |
| 6 | Romain Grosjean | Haas F1 Team | 8 | 1:04.242 | 1:04.059 | 1:03.892 | +0.762 | 52 m | +0.052 |
| 7 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing | 3 | 1:04.723 | 1:04.403 | 1:03.996 | +0.866 | 59 m | +0.104 |
| 8 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:04.460 | 1:04.291 | 1:04.051 | +0.921 | 63 m | +0.055 |
| 9 | Carlos Sainz | Renault | 55 | 1:04.948 | 1:04.561 | 1:04.725 | +1.595 | 109 m | +0.674 |
| 10 | Nico Hulkenberg | Renault | 27 | 1:04.864 | 1:04.676 | 1:05.019 | +1.889 | 129 m | +0.294 |
| 11 | Esteban Ocon | Force India | 31 | 1:05.148 | 1:04.845 | — | — | 88 m | — |
| 12 | Pierre Gasly | Scuderia Toro Rosso | 10 | 1:05.011 | 1:04.874 | — | — | 90 m | — |
| 13 | Charles Leclerc | Sauber | 16 | 1:04.967 | 1:04.979 | — | — | 98 m | — |
| 14 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren | 14 | 1:04.965 | 1:05.058 | — | — | 103 m | — |
| 15 | Lance Stroll | Williams | 18 | 1:05.264 | 1:05.286 | — | — | 118 m | — |
| 16 | Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren | 2 | 1:05.271 | — | — | — | 80 m | — |
| 17 | Sergio Perez | Force India | 11 | 1:05.279 | — | — | — | 81 m | — |
| 18 | Sergey Sirotkin | Williams | 35 | 1:05.322 | — | — | — | 84 m | — |
| 19 | Brendon Hartley | Scuderia Toro Rosso | 28 | 1:05.366 | — | — | — | 87 m | — |
| 20 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | 9 | 1:05.479 | — | — | — | 94 m | — |
Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.
How it is derived: distance, Qualifying
Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.
Pit stops
Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.
A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.
Who stopped first, between neighbours
| Drivers, in grid order | Grid | Result | First recorded stop, lap | Stopped first | Grid to flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi Raikkonen · Max Verstappen | 3 · 4 | 2 · 1 | 15 · 15 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Max Verstappen · Romain Grosjean | 4 · 5 | 1 · 4 | 15 · 15 | Same lap | Kept their order |
| Kimi Raikkonen · Sebastian Vettel | 3 · 6 | 2 · 3 | 15 · 15 | Same lap | Kept their order |
| Romain Grosjean · Sebastian Vettel | 5 · 6 | 4 · 3 | 15 · 15 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Romain Grosjean · Kevin Magnussen | 5 · 8 | 4 · 5 | 15 · 28 | Romain Grosjean | Kept their order |
| Kevin Magnussen · Esteban Ocon | 8 · 11 | 5 · 6 | 28 · 15 | Esteban Ocon | Kept their order |
| Kevin Magnussen · Carlos Sainz | 8 · 9 | 5 · 12 | 28 · 15 | Carlos Sainz | Kept their order |
| Esteban Ocon · Sergio Perez | 11 · 15 | 6 · 7 | 15 · 27 | Esteban Ocon | Kept their order |
| Esteban Ocon · Pierre Gasly | 11 · 12 | 6 · 11 | 15 · 15 | Same lap | Kept their order |
| Stoffel Vandoorne · Sergio Perez | 14 · 15 | 15 · 7 | 1 · 27 | Stoffel Vandoorne | Swapped places |
| Sergio Perez · Sergey Sirotkin | 15 · 16 | 7 · 13 | 27 · 24 | Sergey Sirotkin | Kept their order |
| Sergey Sirotkin · Charles Leclerc | 16 · 17 | 13 · 9 | 24 · 15 | Charles Leclerc | Swapped places |
| Charles Leclerc · Marcus Ericsson | 17 · 18 | 9 · 10 | 15 · 45 | Charles Leclerc | Kept their order |
| Pierre Gasly · Marcus Ericsson | 12 · 18 | 11 · 10 | 15 · 45 | Pierre Gasly | Swapped places |
| Carlos Sainz · Pierre Gasly | 9 · 12 | 12 · 11 | 15 · 15 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Pierre Gasly · Lance Stroll | 12 · 13 | 11 · 14 | 15 · 15 | Same lap | Kept their order |
| Carlos Sainz · Sergey Sirotkin | 9 · 16 | 12 · 13 | 15 · 24 | Carlos Sainz | Kept their order |
| Lance Stroll · Sergey Sirotkin | 13 · 16 | 14 · 13 | 15 · 24 | Lance Stroll | Swapped places |
| Lance Stroll · Stoffel Vandoorne | 13 · 14 | 14 · 15 | 15 · 1 | Stoffel Vandoorne | Kept their order |
Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.
Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3
Practice 1
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Best lap | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:04.839 | — | 0 m | — | 39 |
| 2 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 77 | 1:04.966 | +0.127 | 8 m | +0.127 | 39 |
| 3 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 33 | 1:05.072 | +0.233 | 16 m | +0.106 | 42 |
| 4 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 5 | 1:05.180 | +0.341 | 23 m | +0.108 | 29 |
| 5 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing | 3 | 1:05.483 | +0.644 | 43 m | +0.303 | 22 |
| 6 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 7 | 1:05.776 | +0.937 | 62 m | +0.293 | 31 |
| 7 | Romain Grosjean | Haas F1 Team | 8 | 1:06.028 | +1.189 | 79 m | +0.252 | 31 |
| 8 | Esteban Ocon | Force India | 31 | 1:06.055 | +1.216 | 81 m | +0.027 | 40 |
| 9 | Charles Leclerc | Sauber | 16 | 1:06.215 | +1.376 | 92 m | +0.160 | 31 |
| 10 | Pierre Gasly | Scuderia Toro Rosso | 10 | 1:06.394 | +1.555 | 104 m | +0.179 | 36 |
| 11 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | 9 | 1:06.400 | +1.561 | 104 m | +0.006 | 32 |
| 12 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:06.404 | +1.565 | 104 m | +0.004 | 23 |
| 13 | Carlos Sainz | Renault | 55 | 1:06.427 | +1.588 | 106 m | +0.023 | 29 |
| 14 | Sergio Perez | Force India | 11 | 1:06.455 | +1.616 | 108 m | +0.028 | 42 |
| 15 | Nico Hulkenberg | Renault | 27 | 1:06.479 | +1.640 | 109 m | +0.024 | 35 |
| 16 | Lance Stroll | Williams | 18 | 1:06.567 | +1.728 | 115 m | +0.088 | 32 |
| 17 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren | 14 | 1:06.612 | +1.773 | 118 m | +0.045 | 30 |
| 18 | Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren | 2 | 1:06.698 | +1.859 | 124 m | +0.086 | 30 |
| 19 | Brendon Hartley | Scuderia Toro Rosso | 28 | 1:06.871 | +2.032 | 135 m | +0.173 | 45 |
| 20 | Robert Kubica | Williams | 40 | 1:07.424 | +2.585 | 172 m | +0.553 | 38 |
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
How it is derived: distance, Practice 1
Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.
Practice 2
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Best lap | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:04.579 | — | 0 m | — | 37 |
| 2 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 77 | 1:04.755 | +0.176 | 12 m | +0.176 | 42 |
| 3 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 5 | 1:04.815 | +0.236 | 16 m | +0.060 | 53 |
| 4 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing | 3 | 1:05.031 | +0.452 | 30 m | +0.216 | 48 |
| 5 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 33 | 1:05.125 | +0.546 | 37 m | +0.094 | 48 |
| 6 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 7 | 1:05.265 | +0.686 | 46 m | +0.140 | 42 |
| 7 | Romain Grosjean | Haas F1 Team | 8 | 1:05.429 | +0.850 | 57 m | +0.164 | 38 |
| 8 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:05.559 | +0.980 | 66 m | +0.130 | 41 |
| 9 | Pierre Gasly | Scuderia Toro Rosso | 10 | 1:05.758 | +1.179 | 79 m | +0.199 | 31 |
| 10 | Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren | 2 | 1:05.930 | +1.351 | 90 m | +0.172 | 47 |
| 11 | Carlos Sainz | Renault | 55 | 1:05.999 | +1.420 | 95 m | +0.069 | 38 |
| 12 | Charles Leclerc | Sauber | 16 | 1:06.096 | +1.517 | 101 m | +0.097 | 30 |
| 13 | Esteban Ocon | Force India | 31 | 1:06.133 | +1.554 | 104 m | +0.037 | 43 |
| 14 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | 9 | 1:06.199 | +1.620 | 108 m | +0.066 | 29 |
| 15 | Nico Hulkenberg | Renault | 27 | 1:06.273 | +1.694 | 113 m | +0.074 | 42 |
| 16 | Sergey Sirotkin | Williams | 35 | 1:06.326 | +1.747 | 117 m | +0.053 | 49 |
| 17 | Brendon Hartley | Scuderia Toro Rosso | 28 | 1:06.332 | +1.753 | 117 m | +0.006 | 55 |
| 18 | Sergio Perez | Force India | 11 | 1:06.354 | +1.775 | 119 m | +0.022 | 48 |
| 19 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren | 14 | 1:06.429 | +1.850 | 124 m | +0.075 | 33 |
| 20 | Lance Stroll | Williams | 18 | 1:06.626 | +2.047 | 137 m | +0.197 | 44 |
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
How it is derived: distance, Practice 2
Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.
Practice 3
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Best lap | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 5 | 1:04.070 | — | 0 m | — | 22 |
| 2 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:04.099 | +0.029 | 2 m | +0.029 | 24 |
| 3 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 77 | 1:04.204 | +0.134 | 9 m | +0.105 | 24 |
| 4 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 7 | 1:04.470 | +0.400 | 27 m | +0.266 | 22 |
| 5 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 33 | 1:04.791 | +0.721 | 49 m | +0.321 | 14 |
| 6 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing | 3 | 1:04.891 | +0.821 | 55 m | +0.100 | 18 |
| 7 | Romain Grosjean | Haas F1 Team | 8 | 1:04.916 | +0.846 | 57 m | +0.025 | 17 |
| 8 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:05.013 | +0.943 | 64 m | +0.097 | 16 |
| 9 | Carlos Sainz | Renault | 55 | 1:05.086 | +1.016 | 68 m | +0.073 | 22 |
| 10 | Charles Leclerc | Sauber | 16 | 1:05.219 | +1.149 | 77 m | +0.133 | 25 |
| 11 | Nico Hulkenberg | Renault | 27 | 1:05.228 | +1.158 | 78 m | +0.009 | 19 |
| 12 | Pierre Gasly | Scuderia Toro Rosso | 10 | 1:05.264 | +1.194 | 80 m | +0.036 | 25 |
| 13 | Esteban Ocon | Force India | 31 | 1:05.444 | +1.374 | 93 m | +0.180 | 21 |
| 14 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren | 14 | 1:05.448 | +1.378 | 93 m | +0.004 | 19 |
| 15 | Sergio Perez | Force India | 11 | 1:05.502 | +1.432 | 97 m | +0.054 | 24 |
| 16 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | 9 | 1:05.699 | +1.629 | 110 m | +0.197 | 27 |
| 17 | Brendon Hartley | Scuderia Toro Rosso | 28 | 1:05.705 | +1.635 | 110 m | +0.006 | 23 |
| 18 | Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren | 2 | 1:05.837 | +1.767 | 119 m | +0.132 | 16 |
| 19 | Lance Stroll | Williams | 18 | 1:06.029 | +1.959 | 132 m | +0.192 | 23 |
| 20 | Sergey Sirotkin | Williams | 35 | 1:06.318 | +2.248 | 152 m | +0.289 | 22 |
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
How it is derived: distance, Practice 3
Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.
Photographs from this race
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The cars in this race
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Red Bull Racing RB14
FIA F1 Austria 2018 Nr. 33 Verstappen · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Ferrari SF71H
FIA F1 Austria 2018 Nr. 5 Vettel · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Haas VF-18
FIA F1 Austria 2018 Nr. 8 Grosjean · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Force India VJM11
FIA F1 Austria 2018 Nr. 11 Perez · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
McLaren MCL33
FIA F1 Austria 2018 Nr. 14 Alonso · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Sauber C37
FIA F1 Austria 2018 Nr. 9 Ericsson · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · uncheckedA photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.
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Scuderia Toro Rosso STR13
FIA F1 Austria 2018 Nr. 10 Gasly · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Renault R.S.18
FIA F1 Austria 2018 Nr. 27 Hülkenberg · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Williams FW41
FIA F1 Austria 2018 Nr. 18 Stroll · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · uncheckedWhere this comes from
- Round
- 9 of 2018
- Grand Prix
- Austrian Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- Red Bull Ring · 4.318 km · 10 turns
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- Red Bull Racing
- Entrant
- Red Bull-TAG Heuer
- Confidence
- reference
The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.