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Race
George Russell
1:09.372 Fastest Lap
70 Laps
5th
Kimi Antonelli
DNF
Qualifying
George Russell
1:04.763 Fastest Lap
18 Laps
5th
Kimi Antonelli
1:05.276 Fastest Lap
17 Laps
9th

The Circuit

Round 11 of the 2025 Formula One World Championship sees the paddock head to the hills of Styria, for the Austrian Grand Prix.

The Red Bull Ring circuit in Spielberg is popular with fans and teams given its picturesque surroundings, and has been a firm fixture on the calendar since the beginning of the Hybrid era in 2014.

As well as being Toto’s home Grand Prix, the track is also special for the Boss as he used to be a driving instructor at the circuit.

Short and Sweet, High and Lows

The lap time at the Red Bull Ring is the shortest on the 2025 calendar. The absolute lap record at the track (1:02.939) belongs to Valtteri, set in Q3 at the 2020 event.

In terms of track length, the layout is the fifth shortest on the 2025 schedule at 4.31km, after Monte-Carlo, Zandvoort, Mexico City and Interlagos.

No circuit, however, has fewer turns than the Red Bull Ring (10), and the track is one of four to have three turns taken at full throttle. Miami, Canada and Las Vegas are the others.

Unsurprisingly, given its proximity to the mountains, the circuit has the biggest elevation change between its highest and lowest points of the entire season (69m).

With track temperatures having previously reached 55C, Austria can turn out to be the hottest race on the calendar.

  • First GP
    1997
  • Circuit Length
    4.326km
  • Race Distance
    307.146km
  • Laps
    71

A Long (and Short) History

Formula One first visited Austria in 1964, at Zeltweg, but the airfield track only stayed on the calendar for one year. When it returned in 1970, there was a new home – the 5.9km Österreichring, a longer version of the track we know today.

The circuit stayed on the schedule in 1987 and played host to Austrian legend Niki Lauda’s one and only home Grand Prix win in 1984.

Two years prior, Elio de Angelis pipped Keke Rosberg to the chequered flag by 0.050s which, at the time, was the second-closest finish in the sports’ history.

It would be 10 years before F1 returned, and when it did the circuit had a new look, and name. The shorter 4.3km A1 Ring hosted seven races before dropping from the calendar again in 2003. It would not return again until 2014.

Re-badged as the Red Bull Ring, the layout has been a successful hunting ground for the Three-Pointed Star. With seven wins, no team has won more races than Mercedes at the circuit in its current guise.

Across the entire history of the event, McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes are all tied for most Austrian Grand Prix wins with six.

Nico Rosberg led home a Mercedes 1-2 from Lewis Hamilton in 2014, and the same result was repeated a year later.

The 2014 race was also special for Toto, who watched MB Power claim a 1-2-3-4 with Valtteri Bottas’ Williams completing the podium, and team-mate Felipe Massa in fourth.

Massa’s pole position that year was the only time Mercedes did not qualify P1 in 2014.

To this day, Toto calls that weekend in 2014 his favourite race in F1. The team left their mark on the circuit too, placing a Mercedes star through the nose of the metal bull statue that sits on the infield.

In 2016, Lewis overtook team-mate and championship rival Nico on the final lap to take the win, before Valtteri claimed his second win for the team after a lightning-fast start in 2017.

Spielberg became the first circuit to host consecutive Grands Prix with a different name, when it played host to the opening two rounds of the Covid-disrupted 2020 season.

One week on from the Austrian Grand Prix, the Styrian Grand Prix was held. The format was repeated in 2021.

Mercedes won both of those 2020 races with their W11 car, first with Valtteri, and then with Lewis a week later.

The next Mercedes success would come in 2024, when George took his second F1 win. It meant at the time that every Mercedes driver from the Hybrid era had won the Austrian Grand Prix.

It also meant George became the second driver after Charles Leclerc to win at the track at F3/GP3 (2017), F2 (2018), and F1 levels.

Did You Know?

The Red Bull Ring is also a special track for Kimi, as it was where he first tested an F1 car for the team in 2024. The Italian also won an Italian F4 race at the track in 2022.

This year will be the first since 2021 that the Austrian Grand Prix will not host an F1 Sprint race weekend, having done so in 2022, 2023, and 2024.