Grand Prix of Austria
 Red Bull Ring
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| Main sponsor: |
A1 (2000–2003) Red Bull GmbH (since 2014) |
| in the racing calendar: | 1964, 1970–1987, 1997–2003, since 2014 |
| Route length: | 4,318 km |
| Race length: | 306.452 km in 71 laps |
| Records | |
| Lap record: | 1: 06.957 ( 2018 , Kimi Raikkonen , Ferrari ) |
| Lap record qualification: | 1: 02.939 ( 2020 , Valtteri Bottas , Mercedes ) |
| Most wins: | Alain Prost (3) |
| Most Poles: | René Arnoux / Valtteri Bottas / Niki Lauda (3 each) |
As the Grand Prix of Austria , a Formula 1 race has been held 34 times in Austria, initially in the municipality of Zeltweg and later in the neighboring town of Spielberg in the Murtal district in Styria , two kilometers away . Between 1965 and 1969 the race was held as a sports car race.
In 1957 an international race for sports cars and prototypes, grand tourism and motorcycles took place for the first time on the site of the military airfield in Zeltweg (Styria) built after 1937 . The first Formula 2 race took place in 1959 , the first world championship run in 1964. In 1960, Jack Brabham in a Cooper-Climax and Stirling Moss in a Porsche took part. The following year, Formula 1 racing cars started here in Austria for the first time. In 1963 the race was held for the first time as the “Austrian Grand Prix”, won by Jack Brabham on a Brabham-Climax. Jochen Rindt dropped out after an engine failure. This year the race did not have world championship status . In the following year the race was part of the FIA World Automobile Championship for Formula 1. The track was 3.2 km in length. 105 laps and a total of 336 km were driven. Dan Gurney drove the fastest race lap in 1: 10.56 minutes for the Brabham team.
From 1970 to 1987 Formula 1 races were held regularly on the Österreichring, which was completed in 1969, on the grounds of the municipalities of Spielberg and Flatschach . The route initially had a length of 5.911 km and was extended to 5.942 km in 1977 by the installation of a chicane in response to the fatal accident of Mark Donohue in 1975. After 60 laps had to be completed in the first season, the number of laps later varied between 52 and 54 racing laps. The track was considered to be an absolute high-speed course, on which, in addition to Silverstone , new records were repeatedly set for the average speed of a lap for several years. Nigel Mansell holds the race lap record on this circuit with 1: 28.318 minutes, which he set on Williams in 1987 . At the start of this race, there were two major accidents with damage worth millions, after which Formula 1 said goodbye to Austria for ten years because the track was no longer up to date.
In the mid-1990s, the race track was completely rebuilt. It was modernized, the safety equipment (especially run- off zones , which were completely missing on the old route, were created by narrowing the curves, and the new route was considerably wider), it was given a new section and was shortened to 4.319 km. In addition, the route was renamed the A1-Ring and now belonged entirely to Spielberg . From 1997 to 2003 , Formula 1 races were held again on the A1-Ring. In 2002 the length of the route was changed again slightly to 4.326 km in the course of minor renovations, but an EU-wide ban on tobacco advertising heralded another break in the following year.
After that, the site was sold to Dietrich Mateschitz . He began to convert the site into a motorsport center in 2004. However, immediately after the demolition work began, the project was stopped in the course of a negative environmental impact assessment and so it was temporarily not clear how the site should be used in the future, as Red Bull was not ready to implement the project to a limited extent . In the course of the election campaign before the state elections in 2005 , politicians once again made efforts to “save the Spielberg project”. On May 15, 2011, the track was reopened as the Red Bull Ring under the new owner Dietrich Mateschitz.
Formula 1 returned to Spielberg three years later. The first race took place on June 22, 2014.
Alain Prost is the record winner to this day with three wins in the 1983 , 1985 and 1986 seasons .
Results
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| abbreviation | class | comment |
| F1 | formula 1 | Formula 1 World Championship from 1950 |
| F2 | Formula 2 | |
| FL | Formula libre | Vehicle class usually advertised by the organizer |
| SW | Sports car | |
| TW | Touring car | |
| GP | Grand Prix vehicles | |
| ↓ Solid gray lines indicate when a new course was used in history. ↓ | ||
| Entries with a light red background were not runs for the automobile or Formula 1 world championship. | ||
| Entries with a yellow background were runs for the European Championship . | ||
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ International car and motorcycle race at Zeltweg airfield in 1963. Vienna Technical Museum, accessed on June 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Round of the ring. In: Print edition 14./15. May 2011. THE STANDARD, May 13, 2011, accessed June 8, 2015 .
In the racing calendar of the 2020 season
Australia 1 |
Bahrain 1 |
Vietnam 1 |
China 1 |
Netherlands 1 |
Monaco 1 |
Azerbaijan 1 |
Canada 1 |
France 1 |
Austria |
Styria |
Hungary |
Great Britain |
70th anniversary |
Spain |
Belgium |
Italy |
Tuscany |
Singapore 1 |
Russia |
Eifel |
Japan 1 |
Portugal |
Emilia-Romagna |
USA 1 |
Mexico 1 |
Brazil 1 |
Turkey |
Bahrain |
Sachir |
Abu Dhabi
1) canceled / postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Currently not in the race calendar
Argentina |
Germany |
Europe |
Indianapolis 500 |
India |
Korea |
Luxembourg |
Las Vegas |
Malaysia |
Morocco |
Pacific |
Pescara |
San Marino |
Sweden |
Switzerland |
South Africa |
USA East |
USA West