Austria 2014: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Massa	Williams	1:10.292	1:09.239	1:08.759
2	Bottas	Williams	1:10.356	1:09.096	1:08.846	+0.087
3	Rosberg	Mercedes	1:09.695	1:08.974	1:08.944	+0.185
4	Alonso	Ferrari	1:10.405	1:09.479	1:09.285	+0.526
5	Ricciardo	Red Bull	1:10.395	1:09.638	1:09.466	+0.707
6	Magnussen	McLaren	1:10.081	1:09.473	1:09.515	+0.756
7	Kvyat	Toro Rosso	1:09.678	1:09.490	1:09.619	+0.860
8	Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:10.285	1:09.657	1:10.795	+2.036
9	Hamilton	Mercedes	1:09.514	1:09.092		+0.118
10	Hülkenberg	Force India	1:10.389	1:09.624		+0.650
11	Pérez	Force India	1:10.124	1:09.754		+0.780
12	Button	McLaren	1:10.252	1:09.780		+0.806
13	Vettel	Red Bull	1:10.630	1:09.801		+0.827
14	Maldonado	Lotus	1:10.821	1:09.939		+0.965
15	Vergne	Toro Rosso	1:10.161	1:10.073		+1.099
16	Grosjean	Lotus	1:10.461	1:10.642		+1.668
17	Sutil	Sauber	1:10.825			+1.311
18	Gutiérrez	Sauber	1:11.349			+1.835
19	Bianchi	Marussia	1:11.412			+1.898
20	Kobayashi	Caterham	1:11.673			+2.159
21	Chilton	Marussia	1:11.775			+2.261
22	Ericsson	Caterham	1:12.673			+3.159

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Gap	Stops	Engine
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	3	71	1:27:54.976	2	Mercedes
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	9	71	+1.932	2	Mercedes
3	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	2	71	+8.172	2	Mercedes
4	Felipe Massa	Williams	1	71	+17.358	2	Mercedes
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	4	71	+18.553	2	Ferrari
6	Sergio PérezFastest lap	Force India	15	71	+28.546	2	Mercedes
7	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren	6	71	+32.031	2	Mercedes
8	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	5	71	+43.522	2	Renault
9	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India	10	71	+44.137	2	Mercedes
10	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	8	71	+47.777	2	Ferrari
11	Jenson Button	McLaren	11	71	+50.966	2	Mercedes
12	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus	13	70	+1 lap	2	Renault
13	Adrian Sutil	Sauber	16	70	+1 lap	2	Ferrari
14	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	PL	70	+1 lap	2	Renault
15	Jules Bianchi	Marussia	18	69	+2 laps	1	Ferrari
16	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham	19	69	+2 laps	1	Renault
17	Max Chilton	Marussia	21	69	+2 laps	1	Ferrari
18	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham	20	69	+2 laps	2	Renault
19	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber	17	69	+2 laps	3	Ferrari
DNF	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso	14	59	Brakes	2	Renault
DNF	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	12	34	Electrical	2	Renault
DNF	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	7	24	Suspension	1	Renault

Starting grid vs qualifying

Pérez Qualified 11, started 15 · 5-place penalty
Chilton Qualified 21, started 21 · 3-place penalty
Grosjean Qualified 16, started PL

Penalties and pit lane starts. Everyone else moves up accordingly.

Race

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Places gained

Pérez15→6+9
GrosjeanPL→14+8
Hamilton9→2+7
Chilton21→17+4
Sutil16→13+3
Bianchi18→15+3
Kobayashi19→16+3
Rosberg3→1+2
Ericsson20→18+2
Hülkenberg10→9+1
Maldonado13→12+1
Button11→110
Bottas2→3-1
Alonso4→5-1
Magnussen6→7-1
Räikkönen8→10-2
Gutiérrez17→19-2
Massa1→4-3
Ricciardo5→8-3

PL: started from the pit lane. Retired drivers are listed below.

Fastest pit stops

1Bottas21.133R15
2Alonso21.234R14
3Button21.242R58
4Alonso21.276R47
5Vettel21.381R20
6Ricciardo21.398R43
7Ricciardo21.467R10
8Rosberg21.474R11
9Button21.505R27
10Räikkönen21.618R44

Time in the pit lane from entry to exit, in seconds.

Stints of the top 10

Rosberg1129312 stops
Hamilton1326322 stops
Bottas1526302 stops
Massa1429282 stops
Alonso1433242 stops
Pérez2926162 stops
Magnussen1030312 stops
Ricciardo1033282 stops
Hülkenberg930322 stops
Räikkönen1529272 stops

Stint length in laps, worked out from the pit stops. Which tyre compound was used per stint needs a licence for timing data, so it is not shown here. Lapped drivers covered fewer laps, so their bar ends earlier.

Retirements

This race in history

25 races here since 1970Won from pole: 7 of 25

Win from furthest back (P14): Alan Jones 1977

Most wins here

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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.

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