Race · Round 3 of 22 ·
2023 Australian Grand Prix
Max Verstappen won for Red Bull Racing from pole at Albert Park. 3 of the starters were not classified.
Dry · High of 18 °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
- Albert ParkMelbourne, Australia
- Winner
- Max VerstappenRed Bull Racing
- Pole
- Max Verstappen
- Fastest lap
- Sergio Perez
- Entries
- 2017 classified
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | RB19 | 1 | 58 | Finished | 25 | |
| 2 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | F1 W14 | 3 | 58 | Finished | 18 | |
| 3 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | AMR23 | 4 | 58 | Finished | 15 | |
| 4 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | AMR23 | 6 | 58 | Finished | 12 | |
| 5 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | RB19 | PL | 58 | Finished | 11 | fastest lap |
| 6 | Lando Norris | McLaren | MCL60 | 13 | 58 | Finished | 8 | |
| 7 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | VF-23 | 10 | 58 | Finished | 6 | |
| 8 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | MCL60 | 16 | 58 | Finished | 4 | |
| 9 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | C43 | 17 | 58 | Finished | 2 | |
| 10 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | AT04 | 12 | 58 | Finished | 1 | |
| 11 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | C43 | PL | 58 | Finished | 0 | |
| 12 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | SF-23 | 5 | 58 | Finished | 0 | |
| 13 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | A523 | 9 | 56 | Collision | 0 | |
| 14 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | A523 | 11 | 56 | Collision | 0 | |
| 15 | Nyck de Vries | Scuderia AlphaTauri | AT04 | 15 | 56 | Collision | 0 | |
| 16 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | FW45 | 18 | 56 | Collision | 0 | |
| 17 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | VF-23 | 14 | 52 | Accident | 0 | |
| DNF | George Russell | Mercedes | F1 W14 | 2 | 17 | Engine | 0 | |
| DNF | Alexander Albon | Williams | FW45 | 8 | 6 | Accident | 0 | |
| DNF | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | SF-23 | 7 | 0 | Collision | 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 | 1:17.384 | 1:17.056 | 1:16.732 | — | 0 m | — |
| 2 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 1:17.654 | 1:17.513 | 1:16.968 | +0.236 | 16 m | +0.236 |
| 3 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:17.689 | 1:17.551 | 1:17.104 | +0.372 | 26 m | +0.136 |
| 4 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:17.832 | 1:17.283 | 1:17.139 | +0.407 | 28 m | +0.035 |
| 5 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:17.928 | 1:17.349 | 1:17.270 | +0.538 | 37 m | +0.131 |
| 6 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 1:17.873 | 1:17.616 | 1:17.308 | +0.576 | 40 m | +0.038 |
| 7 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:18.218 | 1:17.390 | 1:17.369 | +0.637 | 44 m | +0.061 |
| 8 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 1:17.962 | 1:17.761 | 1:17.609 | +0.877 | 60 m | +0.240 |
| 9 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 1:18.312 | 1:17.574 | 1:17.675 | +0.943 | 65 m | +0.066 |
| 10 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 1:18.029 | 1:17.412 | 1:17.735 | +1.003 | 69 m | +0.060 |
| 11 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:17.770 | 1:17.768 | — | — | 49 m | — |
| 12 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 1:18.471 | 1:18.099 | — | — | 71 m | — |
| 13 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 1:18.243 | 1:18.119 | — | — | 73 m | — |
| 14 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:18.159 | 1:18.129 | — | — | 73 m | — |
| 15 | Nyck de Vries | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 21 | 1:18.450 | 1:18.335 | — | — | 88 m | — |
| 16 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 1:18.517 | — | — | — | 77 m | — |
| 17 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 1:18.540 | — | — | — | 79 m | — |
| 18 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | 1:18.557 | — | — | — | 80 m | — |
| 19 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 1:18.714 | — | — | — | 91 m | — |
| NC | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Verstappen · Sir Lewis Hamilton | 1 · 3 | 1 · 2 | 8 · 8 | Same lap | Kept their order |
| Sir Lewis Hamilton · Fernando Alonso | 3 · 4 | 2 · 3 | 8 · 8 | Same lap | Kept their order |
| Fernando Alonso · Lance Stroll | 4 · 6 | 3 · 4 | 8 · 8 | Same lap | Kept their order |
| Fernando Alonso · Carlos Sainz | 4 · 5 | 3 · 12 | 8 · 7 | Carlos Sainz | Kept their order |
| Carlos Sainz · Lance Stroll | 5 · 6 | 12 · 4 | 7 · 8 | Carlos Sainz | Swapped places |
| Nico Hulkenberg · Lando Norris | 10 · 13 | 7 · 6 | 8 · 8 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Yuki Tsunoda · Lando Norris | 12 · 13 | 10 · 6 | 8 · 8 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Lando Norris · Kevin Magnussen | 13 · 14 | 6 · 17 | 8 · 7 | Kevin Magnussen | Kept their order |
| Pierre Gasly · Nico Hulkenberg | 9 · 10 | 13 · 7 | 8 · 8 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Nico Hulkenberg · Oscar Piastri | 10 · 16 | 7 · 8 | 8 · 8 | Same lap | Kept their order |
| Nico Hulkenberg · Esteban Ocon | 10 · 11 | 7 · 14 | 8 · 1 | Esteban Ocon | Kept their order |
| Nyck de Vries · Oscar Piastri | 15 · 16 | 15 · 8 | 8 · 8 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Oscar Piastri · Zhou Guanyu | 16 · 17 | 8 · 9 | 8 · 1 | Zhou Guanyu | Kept their order |
| Yuki Tsunoda · Zhou Guanyu | 12 · 17 | 10 · 9 | 8 · 1 | Zhou Guanyu | Swapped places |
| Zhou Guanyu · Logan Sargeant | 17 · 18 | 9 · 16 | 1 · 1 | Same lap | Kept their order |
| Esteban Ocon · Yuki Tsunoda | 11 · 12 | 14 · 10 | 1 · 8 | Esteban Ocon | Swapped places |
| Carlos Sainz · Pierre Gasly | 5 · 9 | 12 · 13 | 7 · 8 | Carlos Sainz | Kept their order |
| Pierre Gasly · Esteban Ocon | 9 · 11 | 13 · 14 | 8 · 1 | Esteban Ocon | Kept their order |
| Esteban Ocon · Nyck de Vries | 11 · 15 | 14 · 15 | 1 · 8 | Esteban Ocon | Kept their order |
| Kevin Magnussen · Nyck de Vries | 14 · 15 | 17 · 15 | 7 · 8 | Kevin Magnussen | Swapped places |
| Nyck de Vries · Logan Sargeant | 15 · 18 | 15 · 16 | 8 · 1 | Logan Sargeant | Kept their order |
| Kevin Magnussen · Logan Sargeant | 14 · 18 | 17 · 16 | 7 · 1 | Logan Sargeant | Swapped places |
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 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 1:18.790 | — | 0 m | — | 17 |
| 2 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:19.223 | +0.433 | 29 m | +0.433 | 20 |
| 3 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 1:19.293 | +0.503 | 34 m | +0.070 | 19 |
| 4 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:19.317 | +0.527 | 35 m | +0.024 | 23 |
| 5 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:19.378 | +0.588 | 39 m | +0.061 | 16 |
| 6 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:19.505 | +0.715 | 48 m | +0.127 | 20 |
| 7 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 1:19.536 | +0.746 | 50 m | +0.031 | 16 |
| 8 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 1:19.646 | +0.856 | 57 m | +0.110 | 22 |
| 9 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 1:19.699 | +0.909 | 61 m | +0.053 | 23 |
| 10 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 1:19.766 | +0.976 | 65 m | +0.067 | 19 |
| 11 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 1:19.766 | +0.976 | 65 m | +0.000 | 21 |
| 12 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 1:19.777 | +0.987 | 66 m | +0.011 | 22 |
| 13 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 1:19.806 | +1.016 | 68 m | +0.029 | 19 |
| 14 | Nyck de Vries | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 21 | 1:19.933 | +1.143 | 77 m | +0.127 | 25 |
| 15 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | 1:20.074 | +1.284 | 86 m | +0.141 | 21 |
| 16 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:20.175 | +1.385 | 93 m | +0.101 | 20 |
| 17 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 1:20.399 | +1.609 | 108 m | +0.224 | 14 |
| 18 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 1:20.419 | +1.629 | 109 m | +0.020 | 21 |
| 19 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 1:20.569 | +1.779 | 119 m | +0.150 | 22 |
| 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:21.147 | +2.357 | 158 m | +0.578 | 17 |
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 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:18.887 | — | 0 m | — | 13 |
| 2 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:19.332 | +0.445 | 30 m | +0.445 | 10 |
| 3 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 1:19.502 | +0.615 | 41 m | +0.170 | 12 |
| 4 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 1:19.672 | +0.785 | 53 m | +0.170 | 20 |
| 5 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:19.695 | +0.808 | 54 m | +0.023 | 12 |
| 6 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:19.725 | +0.838 | 56 m | +0.030 | 12 |
| 7 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 1:20.083 | +1.196 | 80 m | +0.358 | 15 |
| 8 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 1:20.176 | +1.289 | 86 m | +0.093 | 20 |
| 9 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 1:20.194 | +1.307 | 87 m | +0.018 | 19 |
| 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 1:20.206 | +1.319 | 88 m | +0.012 | 12 |
| 11 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 1:20.220 | +1.333 | 89 m | +0.014 | 18 |
| 12 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 1:20.312 | +1.425 | 95 m | +0.092 | 22 |
| 13 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:20.323 | +1.436 | 96 m | +0.011 | 17 |
| 14 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 1:20.380 | +1.493 | 100 m | +0.057 | 24 |
| 15 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 1:20.470 | +1.583 | 106 m | +0.090 | 22 |
| 16 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 1:20.579 | +1.692 | 113 m | +0.109 | 15 |
| 17 | Nyck de Vries | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 21 | 1:20.600 | +1.713 | 115 m | +0.021 | 8 |
| 18 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 1:21.182 | +2.295 | 154 m | +0.582 | 18 |
| 19 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:21.266 | +2.379 | 159 m | +0.084 | 18 |
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 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 1:17.565 | — | 0 m | — | 24 |
| 2 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:17.727 | +0.162 | 11 m | +0.162 | 26 |
| 3 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:17.938 | +0.373 | 25 m | +0.211 | 23 |
| 4 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 1:17.955 | +0.390 | 27 m | +0.017 | 23 |
| 5 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 1:18.094 | +0.529 | 36 m | +0.139 | 23 |
| 6 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 1:18.123 | +0.558 | 38 m | +0.029 | 18 |
| 7 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:18.127 | +0.562 | 38 m | +0.004 | 29 |
| 8 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:18.138 | +0.573 | 39 m | +0.011 | 25 |
| 9 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 1:18.198 | +0.633 | 43 m | +0.060 | 22 |
| 10 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 1:18.330 | +0.765 | 52 m | +0.132 | 20 |
| 11 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 1:18.410 | +0.845 | 57 m | +0.080 | 24 |
| 12 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 1:18.553 | +0.988 | 67 m | +0.143 | 21 |
| 13 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:18.691 | +1.126 | 77 m | +0.138 | 28 |
| 14 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 1:18.713 | +1.148 | 78 m | +0.022 | 21 |
| 15 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 1:18.809 | +1.244 | 85 m | +0.096 | 24 |
| 16 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 1:18.901 | +1.336 | 91 m | +0.092 | 22 |
| 17 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | 1:18.947 | +1.382 | 94 m | +0.046 | 20 |
| 18 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 1:19.056 | +1.491 | 101 m | +0.109 | 26 |
| 19 | Nyck de Vries | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 21 | 1:19.092 | +1.527 | 104 m | +0.036 | 23 |
| 20 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 1:19.146 | +1.581 | 108 m | +0.054 | 12 |
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.
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
Alfa Romeo C43
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 24 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
AlphaTauri AT04
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 21 (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 · 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
Williams FW45
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 23 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · uncheckedWhere this comes from
- Round
- 3 of 2023
- Grand Prix
- Australian Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- Reprofiled · 5.278 km · 14 turns
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- Red Bull Racing
- Entrant
- Red Bull-Honda RBPT
- 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.