Austria 2023: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Verstappen	Red Bull	1:05.116	1:04.951	1:04.391
2	Leclerc	Ferrari	1:05.577	1:05.087	1:04.439	+0.048
3	Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	1:05.339	1:04.975	1:04.581	+0.190
4	Norris	McLaren	1:05.617	1:05.038	1:04.658	+0.267
5	Hamilton	Mercedes	1:05.673	1:05.188	1:04.819	+0.428
6	Stroll	Aston Martin	1:05.710	1:05.121	1:04.893	+0.502
7	Alonso	Aston Martin	1:05.655	1:05.181	1:04.911	+0.520
8	Hülkenberg	Haas	1:05.740	1:05.362	1:05.090	+0.699
9	Gasly	Alpine	1:05.515	1:05.308	1:05.170	+0.779
10	Albon	Williams	1:05.673	1:05.387	1:05.823	+1.432
11	Russell	Mercedes	1:05.686	1:05.428		+0.477
12	Ocon	Alpine	1:05.729	1:05.453		+0.502
13	Piastri	McLaren	1:05.683	1:05.605		+0.654
14	Bottas	Alfa Romeo	1:05.763	1:05.680		+0.729
15	Pérez	Red Bull	1:05.177	2:06.688		+1:01.737
16	Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	1:05.784			+0.668
17	Zhou	Alfa Romeo	1:05.818			+0.702
18	Sargeant	Williams	1:05.948			+0.832
19	Magnussen	Haas	1:05.971			+0.855
20	De Vries	AlphaTauri	1:05.974			+0.858

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

Pos	Driver	Team	SQ1	SQ2	SQ3	Gap
1	Verstappen	Red Bull	1:06.236	1:05.371	1:04.440
2	Pérez	Red Bull	1:06.924	1:05.836	1:04.933	+0.493
3	Norris	McLaren	1:06.723	1:05.699	1:05.010	+0.570
4	Hülkenberg	Haas	1:06.548	1:06.091	1:05.084	+0.644
5	Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	1:06.187	1:05.434	1:05.136	+0.696
6	Leclerc	Ferrari	1:07.061	1:05.673	1:05.245	+0.805
7	Alonso	Aston Martin	1:06.611	1:05.759	1:05.258	+0.818
8	Stroll	Aston Martin	1:06.569	1:05.914	1:05.347	+0.907
9	Ocon	Alpine	1:06.840	1:05.604	1:05.366	+0.926
10	Magnussen	Haas	1:06.629	1:05.730	1:05.912	+1.472
11	Albon	Williams	1:06.892	1:06.152		+0.781
12	Gasly	Alpine	1:06.873	1:06.360		+0.989
13	Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	1:06.896	1:06.369		+0.998
14	De Vries	AlphaTauri	1:06.704	1:06.593		+1.222
15	Russell	Mercedes	1:06.653			+0.466
16	Zhou	Alfa Romeo	1:07.062			+0.875
17	Piastri	McLaren	1:07.106			+0.919
18	Hamilton	Mercedes	1:07.282			+1.095
19	Bottas	Alfa Romeo	1:07.291			+1.104
20	Sargeant	Williams	1:07.426			+1.239

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

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Gap	Points
1	Verstappen	Red Bull	1	30:26.730	8
2	Pérez	Red Bull	2	+21.048	7
3	Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	5	+23.088	6
4	Stroll	Aston Martin	7	+29.703	5
5	Alonso	Aston Martin	6	+30.109	4
6	Hülkenberg	Haas	4	+31.297	3
7	Ocon	Alpine	8	+36.602	2
8	Russell	Mercedes	15	+36.611	1
9	Norris	McLaren	3	+38.608
10	Hamilton	Mercedes	18	+46.375
11	Piastri	McLaren	17	+49.807
12	Leclerc	Ferrari	9	+50.789
13	Albon	Williams	11	+52.848
14	Magnussen	Haas	10	+56.593
15	Gasly	Alpine	12	+57.652
16	Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	13	+1:04.822
17	De Vries	AlphaTauri	14	+1:05.617
18	Sargeant	Williams	20	+1:06.059
19	Zhou	Alfa Romeo	16	+1:10.825
20	Bottas	Alfa Romeo	19	+1:16.435

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Gap	Stops	Engine
1	Max VerstappenFastest lap	Red Bull	1	71	1:25:33.607	4	Honda RBPT
2	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	2	71	+5.155	3	Ferrari
3	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull	15	71	+17.188	3	Honda RBPT
4	Lando NorrisDriver of the Day	McLaren	4	71	+26.327	3	Mercedes
5	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	7	71	+30.317	3	Mercedes
6	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	3	71	+31.377	3	Ferrari
7	George Russell	Mercedes	11	71	+48.403	3	Mercedes
8	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	5	71	+49.196	3	Mercedes
9	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	6	71	+59.043	4	Mercedes
10	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	9	71	+1:07.667	3	Renault
11	Alexander Albon	Williams	10	71	+1:19.767	3	Mercedes
12	Guanyu Zhou	Alfa Romeo	17	70	+1 lap	3	Ferrari
13	Logan Sargeant	Williams	18	70	+1 lap	3	Mercedes
14	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	12	70	+1 lap	3	Renault
15	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	PL	70	+1 lap	3	Ferrari
16	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	13	70	+1 lap	4	Mercedes
17	Nyck de Vries	AlphaTauri	PL	70	+1 lap	3	Honda RBPT
18	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	PL	70	+1 lap	3	Ferrari
19	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	16	70	+1 lap	4	Honda RBPT
DNF	Nico Hülkenberg	Haas	8	12	Engine	2	Ferrari

Starting grid vs qualifying

Magnussen Qualified 19, started PL
De Vries Qualified 20, started PL

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

Race

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Places gained

Pérez15→3+12
Zhou17→12+5
Sargeant18→13+5
Russell11→7+4
De VriesPL→17+3
Alonso7→5+2
MagnussenPL→18+1
Verstappen1→10
Leclerc2→20
Norris4→40
Gasly9→10-1
Albon10→11-1
BottasPL→15-1
Ocon12→14-2
Sainz Jr.3→6-3
Hamilton5→8-3
Stroll6→9-3
Piastri13→16-3
Tsunoda16→19-3

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

Fastest pit stops

1Tsunoda16.246R2
2Verstappen16.369R2
3Gasly16.380R2
4Sainz Jr.16.380R2
5Leclerc16.393R2
6Hamilton16.415R2
7Alonso16.600R2
8Stroll16.646R2
9Albon16.737R2
10Hülkenberg16.778R2

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

Stints of the top 10

Verstappen222252024 stops
Leclerc21332243 stops
Pérez22325213 stops
Norris21227303 stops
Alonso21329273 stops
Sainz Jr.21330263 stops
Russell21227303 stops
Hamilton21228293 stops
Stroll2132118174 stops
Gasly21230273 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.

This race in history

36 races here since 1970Won from pole: 13 of 36

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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