Race · Round 17 of 22 ·
2023 Qatar Grand Prix
Max Verstappen won for Red Bull Racing from pole at Lusail International Circuit. 2 of the starters were not classified. This round settled the drivers' title for Max Verstappen.
Dry · High of 38 °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
- Lusail International CircuitLusail, Qatar
- Winner
- Max VerstappenRed Bull Racing
- Pole
- Max Verstappen
- Fastest lap
- Max Verstappen
- Entries
- 2017 classified
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | RB19 | 1 | 57 | Finished | 26 | fastest lap |
| 2 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | MCL60 | 6 | 57 | Finished | 18 | |
| 3 | Lando Norris | McLaren | MCL60 | 10 | 57 | Finished | 15 | |
| 4 | George Russell | Mercedes | F1 W14 | 2 | 57 | Finished | 12 | |
| 5 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | SF-23 | 5 | 57 | Finished | 10 | |
| 6 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | AMR23 | 4 | 57 | Finished | 8 | |
| 7 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | A523 | 8 | 57 | Finished | 6 | |
| 8 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | C43 | 9 | 57 | Finished | 4 | |
| 9 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | C43 | 19 | 57 | Finished | 2 | |
| 10 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | RB19 | 20 | 57 | Finished | 1 | |
| 11 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | AMR23 | 16 | 57 | Finished | 0 | |
| 12 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | A523 | 7 | 57 | Finished | 0 | |
| 13 | Alexander Albon | Williams | FW45 | 13 | 57 | Finished | 0 | |
| 14 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | VF-23 | 18 | 56 | Finished | 0 | |
| 15 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | AT04 | 11 | 56 | Finished | 0 | |
| 16 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | VF-23 | 12 | 56 | Finished | 0 | |
| 17 | Liam Lawson | Scuderia AlphaTauri | AT04 | 17 | 56 | Finished | 0 | |
| DNF | Logan Sargeant | Williams | FW45 | 15 | 40 | Unwell | 0 | |
| DNF | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | F1 W14 | 3 | 0 | Collision | 0 | |
| DNS | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | SF-23 | — | — | Fuel leak | 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 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 1:25.007 | 1:24.483 | 1:23.778 | — | 0 m | — |
| 2 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 1:25.334 | 1:24.827 | 1:24.219 | +0.441 | 29 m | +0.441 |
| 3 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:26.076 | 1:24.381 | 1:24.305 | +0.527 | 34 m | +0.086 |
| 4 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:25.223 | 1:25.241 | 1:24.369 | +0.591 | 38 m | +0.064 |
| 5 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:25.452 | 1:25.079 | 1:24.424 | +0.646 | 42 m | +0.055 |
| 6 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 1:25.266 | 1:24.724 | 1:24.540 | +0.762 | 49 m | +0.116 |
| 7 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 1:25.566 | 1:24.918 | 1:24.553 | +0.775 | 50 m | +0.013 |
| 8 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:25.711 | 1:24.928 | 1:24.763 | +0.985 | 64 m | +0.210 |
| 9 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 1:26.038 | 1:25.297 | 1:25.058 | +1.280 | 83 m | +0.295 |
| 10 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 1:25.131 | 1:24.685 | — | — | 20 m | — |
| 11 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 1:26.058 | 1:25.301 | — | — | 59 m | — |
| 12 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:25.808 | 1:25.328 | — | — | 61 m | — |
| 13 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 1:25.991 | 1:25.462 | — | — | 69 m | — |
| 14 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 1:26.118 | 1:25.707 | — | — | 85 m | — |
| 15 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 1:25.904 | 1:25.783 | — | — | 90 m | — |
| 16 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | 1:26.210 | — | — | — | 77 m | — |
| 17 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 1:26.345 | — | — | — | 85 m | — |
| 18 | Liam Lawson | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 40 | 1:26.635 | — | — | — | 104 m | — |
| 19 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:27.046 | — | — | — | 130 m | — |
| 20 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 1:27.432 | — | — | — | 155 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.
Sprint
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Grid | Laps | Out | Gap | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 1 | 19 | Finished | — | 8 |
| 2 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 3 | 19 | Finished | +1.871 | 7 |
| 3 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 2 | 19 | Finished | +8.497 | 6 |
| 4 | George Russell | Mercedes | 4 | 19 | Finished | +11.036 | 5 |
| 5 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 12 | 19 | Finished | +17.314 | 4 |
| 6 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 5 | 19 | Finished | +18.806 | 3 |
| 7 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 17 | 19 | Finished | +19.864 | 2 |
| 8 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 9 | 19 | Finished | +21.180 | 1 |
| 9 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 11 | 19 | Finished | +21.742 | 0 |
| 10 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 13 | 19 | Finished | +22.208 | 0 |
| 11 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 18 | 19 | Finished | +22.863 | 0 |
| 12 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 6 | 19 | Finished | +24.860 | 0 |
| 13 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 19 | 19 | Finished | +24.970 | 0 |
| 14 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 15 | 19 | Finished | +26.868 | 0 |
| 15 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 16 | 19 | Finished | +29.523 | 0 |
| DNF | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 7 | 11 | Collision damage | — | 0 |
| DNF | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 10 | 10 | Collision | — | 0 |
| DNF | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 8 | 10 | Collision | — | 0 |
| DNF | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 20 | 2 | Spun off | — | 0 |
| DNF | Liam Lawson | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 14 | 0 | Spun off | — | 0 |
A sprint is a separate, shorter race held on the grand prix weekend, with its own grid and its own points — and those points count towards the championship. The grid column is the sprint grid, not the grand prix one.
Sprint qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | SQ1 | SQ2 | SQ3 | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 1:25.979 | 1:25.496 | 1:24.454 | — | 0 m | — |
| 2 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 1:25.672 | 1:24.947 | 1:24.536 | +0.082 | 5 m | +0.082 |
| 3 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 1:25.510 | 1:25.199 | 1:24.646 | +0.192 | 12 m | +0.110 |
| 4 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 1:25.413 | 1:25.027 | 1:24.841 | +0.387 | 25 m | +0.195 |
| 5 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:25.872 | 1:25.433 | 1:25.155 | +0.701 | 45 m | +0.314 |
| 6 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:26.266 | 1:25.367 | 1:25.247 | +0.793 | 51 m | +0.092 |
| 7 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 1:26.450 | 1:25.499 | 1:25.320 | +0.866 | 56 m | +0.073 |
| 8 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 1:26.123 | 1:25.143 | 1:25.382 | +0.928 | 60 m | +0.062 |
| 9 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:25.936 | 1:25.344 | — | — | 25 m | — |
| 10 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:26.072 | 1:25.510 | — | — | 36 m | — |
| 11 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 1:25.829 | 1:25.686 | — | — | 47 m | — |
| 12 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:26.424 | 1:25.962 | — | — | 65 m | — |
| 13 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 1:26.449 | 1:26.236 | — | — | 82 m | — |
| 14 | Liam Lawson | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 40 | 1:26.202 | 1:26.584 | — | — | 104 m | — |
| 15 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 1:26.669 | 1:54.546 | — | — | 1,888 m | — |
| 16 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 1:26.849 | — | — | — | 91 m | — |
| 17 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 1:26.862 | — | — | — | 92 m | — |
| 18 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 1:26.926 | — | — | — | 96 m | — |
| 19 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:27.438 | — | — | — | 128 m | — |
| NC | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | 2:05.741 | — | — | — | 2,559 m | — |
The session that sets the sprint grid: the sprint shootout in 2023, sprint qualifying since, with the best lap of each of its three parts.
How it is derived: distance, Sprint 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Verstappen · Oscar Piastri | 1 · 6 | 1 · 2 | 17 · 12 | Oscar Piastri | Kept their order |
| Max Verstappen · George Russell | 1 · 2 | 1 · 4 | 17 · 1 | George Russell | Kept their order |
| Charles Leclerc · Oscar Piastri | 5 · 6 | 5 · 2 | 12 · 12 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Oscar Piastri · Lando Norris | 6 · 10 | 2 · 3 | 12 · 13 | Oscar Piastri | Kept their order |
| Oscar Piastri · Pierre Gasly | 6 · 7 | 2 · 12 | 12 · 11 | Pierre Gasly | Kept their order |
| George Russell · Lando Norris | 2 · 10 | 4 · 3 | 1 · 13 | George Russell | Swapped places |
| Valtteri Bottas · Lando Norris | 9 · 10 | 8 · 3 | 3 · 13 | Valtteri Bottas | Swapped places |
| Lando Norris · Yuki Tsunoda | 10 · 11 | 3 · 15 | 13 · 9 | Yuki Tsunoda | Kept their order |
| George Russell · Charles Leclerc | 2 · 5 | 4 · 5 | 1 · 12 | George Russell | Kept their order |
| Fernando Alonso · Charles Leclerc | 4 · 5 | 6 · 5 | 11 · 12 | Fernando Alonso | Swapped places |
| Fernando Alonso · Esteban Ocon | 4 · 8 | 6 · 7 | 11 · 10 | Esteban Ocon | Kept their order |
| Pierre Gasly · Esteban Ocon | 7 · 8 | 12 · 7 | 11 · 10 | Esteban Ocon | Swapped places |
| Esteban Ocon · Valtteri Bottas | 8 · 9 | 7 · 8 | 10 · 3 | Valtteri Bottas | Kept their order |
| Valtteri Bottas · Zhou Guanyu | 9 · 19 | 8 · 9 | 3 · 18 | Valtteri Bottas | Kept their order |
| Kevin Magnussen · Zhou Guanyu | 18 · 19 | 14 · 9 | 3 · 18 | Kevin Magnussen | Swapped places |
| Zhou Guanyu · Sergio Perez | 19 · 20 | 9 · 10 | 18 · 17 | Sergio Perez | Kept their order |
| Lance Stroll · Sergio Perez | 16 · 20 | 11 · 10 | 3 · 17 | Lance Stroll | Swapped places |
| Pierre Gasly · Lance Stroll | 7 · 16 | 12 · 11 | 11 · 3 | Lance Stroll | Swapped places |
| Lance Stroll · Liam Lawson | 16 · 17 | 11 · 17 | 3 · 3 | Same lap | Kept their order |
| Pierre Gasly · Alexander Albon | 7 · 13 | 12 · 13 | 11 · 18 | Pierre Gasly | Kept their order |
| Nico Hulkenberg · Alexander Albon | 12 · 13 | 16 · 13 | 13 · 18 | Nico Hulkenberg | Swapped places |
| Alexander Albon · Kevin Magnussen | 13 · 18 | 13 · 14 | 18 · 3 | Kevin Magnussen | Kept their order |
| Yuki Tsunoda · Kevin Magnussen | 11 · 18 | 15 · 14 | 9 · 3 | Kevin Magnussen | Swapped places |
| Liam Lawson · Kevin Magnussen | 17 · 18 | 17 · 14 | 3 · 3 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Yuki Tsunoda · Nico Hulkenberg | 11 · 12 | 15 · 16 | 9 · 13 | Yuki Tsunoda | Kept their order |
| Nico Hulkenberg · Liam Lawson | 12 · 17 | 16 · 17 | 13 · 3 | Liam Lawson | 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 1
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Best lap | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 1:27.428 | — | 0 m | — | 26 |
| 2 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:27.762 | +0.334 | 21 m | +0.334 | 27 |
| 3 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:27.909 | +0.481 | 30 m | +0.147 | 27 |
| 4 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:27.919 | +0.491 | 30 m | +0.010 | 28 |
| 5 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 1:28.016 | +0.588 | 36 m | +0.097 | 24 |
| 6 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 1:28.027 | +0.599 | 37 m | +0.011 | 28 |
| 7 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 1:28.171 | +0.743 | 46 m | +0.144 | 22 |
| 8 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 1:28.336 | +0.908 | 56 m | +0.165 | 28 |
| 9 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 1:28.380 | +0.952 | 59 m | +0.044 | 20 |
| 10 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 1:28.441 | +1.013 | 63 m | +0.061 | 24 |
| 11 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | 1:28.550 | +1.122 | 70 m | +0.109 | 25 |
| 12 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 1:28.590 | +1.162 | 72 m | +0.040 | 26 |
| 13 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:28.679 | +1.251 | 78 m | +0.089 | 26 |
| 14 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 1:28.690 | +1.262 | 78 m | +0.011 | 28 |
| 15 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:28.732 | +1.304 | 81 m | +0.042 | 25 |
| 16 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 1:28.821 | +1.393 | 86 m | +0.089 | 23 |
| 17 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 1:29.041 | +1.613 | 100 m | +0.220 | 27 |
| 18 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 1:29.106 | +1.678 | 104 m | +0.065 | 29 |
| 19 | Liam Lawson | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 40 | 1:29.238 | +1.810 | 112 m | +0.132 | 29 |
| 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:29.502 | +2.074 | 129 m | +0.264 | 26 |
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.
The cars in this race
The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.
Red Bull Racing RB19
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 1 (1) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
McLaren MCL60
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 4 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Ferrari SF-23
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 55 (1) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Alpine A523
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 10 (2) (cropped) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Alfa Romeo C43
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 24 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Williams FW45
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 23 (2) · 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.
1 more photograph
AlphaTauri AT04
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 21 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · uncheckedWhere this comes from
- Round
- 17 of 2023
- Grand Prix
- Qatar Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
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- Format
- Sprint weekend
- Constructor
- Red Bull Racing
- Entrant
- Red Bull-Honda RBPT
- Confidence
- reference
No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.