Race · Round 9 of 22 · 4 July 2021

2021 Austrian Grand Prix

Max Verstappen won for Red Bull Racing from pole at Red Bull Ring. 1 of the starters was not classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 22 °C, 3.5 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: Red Bull RingSpielberg, Austria
Winner: Max VerstappenRed Bull Racing
Pole: Max Verstappen
Fastest lap: Max Verstappen
Entries: 2019 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB16B	1	71	Finished	26	fastest lap
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	F1 W12	5	71	Finished	18
3	Lando Norris	McLaren	MCL35M	2	71	Finished	15
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W12	4	71	Finished	12
5	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	SF21	10	71	Finished	10
6	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	RB16B	3	71	Finished	8
7	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	MCL35M	13	71	Finished	6
8	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	SF21	12	71	Finished	4
9	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT02	6	71	Finished	2
10	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	A521	14	70	Finished	1
11	George Russell	Williams	FW43B	8	70	Finished	0
12	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT02	7	70	Finished	0
13	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	AMR21	9	70	Finished	0
14	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	C41	15	70	Finished	0
15	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	C41	16	70	Finished	0
16	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	FW43B	18	70	Finished	0
17	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	AMR21	11	69	Finished	0
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	VF-21	19	69	Finished	0
19	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	VF-21	20	69	Finished	0
DNF	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	A521	17	0	Collision	0

F1DB layout spielberg-3 · 4.326 km · 10 turns, F1DB’s figures
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.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Max Verstappen	1	1	71
Valtteri Bottas	5	2	71
Lando Norris	2	3	71
Sir Lewis Hamilton	4	4	71
Carlos Sainz	10	5	71
Sergio Perez	3	6	71
Daniel Ricciardo	13	7	71
Charles Leclerc	12	8	71
Pierre Gasly	6	9	71
Fernando Alonso	14	10	70
George Russell	8	11	70
Yuki Tsunoda	7	12	70
Lance Stroll	9	13	70
Antonio Giovinazzi	15	14	70
Kimi Raikkonen	16	15	70
Nicholas Latifi	18	16	70
Sebastian Vettel	11	17	69
Mick Schumacher	19	18	69
Nikita Mazepin	20	19	69
Esteban Ocon	17	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:04.249	1:03.927	1:03.720	—	0 m	—
2	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:04.345	1:04.415	1:03.768	+0.048	3 m	+0.048
3	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:04.833	1:04.483	1:03.990	+0.270	18 m	+0.222
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:04.506	1:04.258	1:04.014	+0.294	20 m	+0.024
5	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:04.563	1:04.376	1:04.049	+0.329	22 m	+0.035
6	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:04.841	1:04.412	1:04.107	+0.387	26 m	+0.058
7	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:04.967	1:04.518	1:04.273	+0.553	37 m	+0.166
8	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:04.846	1:04.493	1:04.570	+0.850	58 m	+0.297
9	George Russell	Williams	63	1:04.907	1:04.553	1:04.591	+0.871	59 m	+0.021
10	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:04.927	1:04.547	1:04.618	+0.898	61 m	+0.027
11	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:04.596	1:04.559	—	—	43 m	—
12	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:04.906	1:04.600	—	—	45 m	—
13	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:04.977	1:04.719	—	—	53 m	—
14	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:04.472	1:04.856	—	—	63 m	—
15	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:04.782	1:05.083	—	—	78 m	—
16	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:05.009	—	—	—	51 m	—
17	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:05.051	—	—	—	54 m	—
18	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:05.195	—	—	—	64 m	—
19	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:05.427	—	—	—	79 m	—
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	9	1:05.951	—	—	—	114 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

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.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Max Verstappen	1	71	2	32, 60	21.1, 21.2
Valtteri Bottas	2	71	1	30	21.1
Lando Norris	3	71	1	30	26.5
Sir Lewis Hamilton	4	71	2	31, 53	21.0, 21.4
Carlos Sainz	5	71	1	48	21.4
Sergio Perez	6	71	1	32	21.7
Daniel Ricciardo	7	71	1	29	21.2
Charles Leclerc	8	71	1	34	21.1
Pierre Gasly	9	71	2	13, 45	22.6, 20.9
Fernando Alonso	10	70	1	32	22.7
George Russell	11	70	1	30	21.6
Yuki Tsunoda	12	70	2	12, 51	21.1, 26.6
Lance Stroll	13	70	2	14, 46	21.4, 21.5
Antonio Giovinazzi	14	70	2	1, 29	21.1, 27.1
Kimi Raikkonen	15	70	1	37	21.9
Nicholas Latifi	16	70	1	33	21.2
Sebastian Vettel	17	69	2	17, 49	21.1, 20.8
Mick Schumacher	18	69	1	34	21.8
Nikita Mazepin	19	69	2	27, 45	22.0, 23.2
Esteban Ocon	DNF	0	0	None recorded	—

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

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Max Verstappen · Valtteri Bottas	1 · 5	1 · 2	32 · 30	Valtteri Bottas	Kept their order
Max Verstappen · Lando Norris	1 · 2	1 · 3	32 · 30	Lando Norris	Kept their order
Lando Norris · Valtteri Bottas	2 · 5	3 · 2	30 · 30	Same lap	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Valtteri Bottas	4 · 5	4 · 2	31 · 30	Valtteri Bottas	Swapped places
Valtteri Bottas · Pierre Gasly	5 · 6	2 · 9	30 · 13	Pierre Gasly	Kept their order
Lando Norris · Sir Lewis Hamilton	2 · 4	3 · 4	30 · 31	Lando Norris	Kept their order
Lando Norris · Sergio Perez	2 · 3	3 · 6	30 · 32	Lando Norris	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Sir Lewis Hamilton	3 · 4	6 · 4	32 · 31	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Carlos Sainz	4 · 10	4 · 5	31 · 48	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Carlos Sainz	3 · 10	6 · 5	32 · 48	Sergio Perez	Swapped places
Lance Stroll · Carlos Sainz	9 · 10	13 · 5	14 · 48	Lance Stroll	Swapped places
Carlos Sainz · Sebastian Vettel	10 · 11	5 · 17	48 · 17	Sebastian Vettel	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Daniel Ricciardo	3 · 13	6 · 7	32 · 29	Daniel Ricciardo	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · Daniel Ricciardo	12 · 13	8 · 7	34 · 29	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Fernando Alonso	13 · 14	7 · 10	29 · 32	Daniel Ricciardo	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Charles Leclerc	6 · 12	9 · 8	13 · 34	Pierre Gasly	Swapped places
Sebastian Vettel · Charles Leclerc	11 · 12	17 · 8	17 · 34	Sebastian Vettel	Swapped places
Pierre Gasly · Fernando Alonso	6 · 14	9 · 10	13 · 32	Pierre Gasly	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Yuki Tsunoda	6 · 7	9 · 12	13 · 12	Yuki Tsunoda	Kept their order
George Russell · Fernando Alonso	8 · 14	11 · 10	30 · 32	George Russell	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Antonio Giovinazzi	14 · 15	10 · 14	32 · 1	Antonio Giovinazzi	Kept their order
Yuki Tsunoda · George Russell	7 · 8	12 · 11	12 · 30	Yuki Tsunoda	Swapped places
George Russell · Lance Stroll	8 · 9	11 · 13	30 · 14	Lance Stroll	Kept their order
Yuki Tsunoda · Lance Stroll	7 · 9	12 · 13	12 · 14	Yuki Tsunoda	Kept their order
Lance Stroll · Antonio Giovinazzi	9 · 15	13 · 14	14 · 1	Antonio Giovinazzi	Kept their order
Antonio Giovinazzi · Kimi Raikkonen	15 · 16	14 · 15	1 · 37	Antonio Giovinazzi	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Nicholas Latifi	16 · 18	15 · 16	37 · 33	Nicholas Latifi	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Nicholas Latifi	11 · 18	17 · 16	17 · 33	Sebastian Vettel	Swapped places
Nicholas Latifi · Mick Schumacher	18 · 19	16 · 18	33 · 34	Nicholas Latifi	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Mick Schumacher	11 · 19	17 · 18	17 · 34	Sebastian Vettel	Kept their order
Mick Schumacher · Nikita Mazepin	19 · 20	18 · 19	34 · 27	Nikita Mazepin	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

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:05.143	—	0 m	—	37
2	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:05.409	+0.266	18 m	+0.266	33
3	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:05.431	+0.288	19 m	+0.022	33
4	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:05.445	+0.302	20 m	+0.014	31
5	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:05.474	+0.331	22 m	+0.029	35
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:05.586	+0.443	29 m	+0.112	28
7	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:05.709	+0.566	38 m	+0.123	32
8	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:05.726	+0.583	39 m	+0.017	31
9	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:05.726	+0.583	39 m	+0.000	36
10	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:05.880	+0.737	49 m	+0.154	28
11	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:05.980	+0.837	55 m	+0.100	30
12	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:06.181	+1.038	69 m	+0.201	31
13	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:06.203	+1.060	70 m	+0.022	30
14	Zhou Guanyu	Alpine	37	1:06.414	+1.271	84 m	+0.211	29
15	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:06.444	+1.301	86 m	+0.030	28
16	Callum Ilott (never started a Grand Prix)	Sauber	98	1:06.564	+1.421	94 m	+0.120	23
17	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:06.583	+1.440	95 m	+0.019	29
18	Roy Nissany (never started a Grand Prix)	Williams	45	1:06.683	+1.540	102 m	+0.100	34
19	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:06.978	+1.835	122 m	+0.295	36
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	9	1:07.316	+2.173	144 m	+0.338	30

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing. † Drove in practice and never started a Grand Prix.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:04.523	—	0 m	—	31
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:04.712	+0.189	13 m	+0.189	34
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:04.740	+0.217	15 m	+0.028	35
4	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:05.139	+0.616	41 m	+0.399	33
5	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:05.268	+0.745	50 m	+0.129	37
6	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:05.356	+0.833	56 m	+0.088	37
7	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:05.379	+0.856	57 m	+0.023	38
8	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:05.393	+0.870	58 m	+0.014	34
9	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:05.466	+0.943	63 m	+0.073	34
10	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:05.511	+0.988	66 m	+0.045	32
11	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:05.516	+0.993	66 m	+0.005	39
12	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:05.527	+1.004	67 m	+0.011	36
13	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:05.620	+1.097	73 m	+0.093	37
14	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:05.624	+1.101	74 m	+0.004	33
15	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:05.698	+1.175	79 m	+0.074	32
16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:05.708	+1.185	79 m	+0.010	33
17	George Russell	Williams	63	1:05.819	+1.296	87 m	+0.111	36
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:05.911	+1.388	93 m	+0.092	35
19	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:06.014	+1.491	100 m	+0.103	38
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	9	1:06.173	+1.650	110 m	+0.159	35

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:04.591	—	0 m	—	15
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:05.129	+0.538	36 m	+0.538	22
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:05.277	+0.686	46 m	+0.148	20
4	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:05.280	+0.689	46 m	+0.003	27
5	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:05.345	+0.754	50 m	+0.065	27
6	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:05.347	+0.756	51 m	+0.002	29
7	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:05.396	+0.805	54 m	+0.049	20
8	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:05.434	+0.843	56 m	+0.038	23
9	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:05.484	+0.893	60 m	+0.050	35
10	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:05.542	+0.951	64 m	+0.058	22
11	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:05.546	+0.955	64 m	+0.004	19
12	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:05.561	+0.970	65 m	+0.015	23
13	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:05.674	+1.083	72 m	+0.113	22
14	George Russell	Williams	63	1:05.694	+1.103	74 m	+0.020	23
15	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:05.700	+1.109	74 m	+0.006	23
16	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:05.725	+1.134	76 m	+0.025	21
17	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:05.747	+1.156	77 m	+0.022	31
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:06.078	+1.487	99 m	+0.331	26
19	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:06.105	+1.514	101 m	+0.027	17
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	9	1:06.289	+1.698	114 m	+0.184	28

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

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Where this comes from

Round: 9 of 2021
Grand Prix: Austrian Grand Prix
Dates: 4 Jul 2021
Layout raced: Red Bull Ring · 4.318 km · 10 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Red Bull Racing
Entrant: Red Bull-Honda
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.