ROUND 1: 🇦🇺 Australia
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2026
Weekend Schedule
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- Practice 1: Friday, 02:30 CET | 01:30 UTC
- Practice 2: Friday, 06:00 CET | 05:00 UTC
- Practice 3: Saturday, 02:30 CET | 01:30 UTC
- Qualifying: Saturday, 06:00 CET | 05:00 UTC
- Race: Sunday, 05:00 CET | 04:00 UTC
Circuit stats & Tyres
- First Grand Prix: 1996
- Number of laps: 58
- Circuit Length: 5.278 km
- Race Distance: 306.124 km
- Lap record: 1:19.813 Charles Leclerc (2024)
- 2025 Pole: Lando Norris (1:15.096)
- 2025 Fastest Lap: Lando Norris (1:22.167)
- 2025 winner: Lando Norris
- Pirelli Tyres: C3 (Hard) ⚪, C4 (Medium) 🟡, C5 (Soft) 🔴
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The Red bull second seat curse strikes again. Verstappen out 20th, Hadjar in 3rd.
At some point you have to wonder if the car is just undrivable by anyone but Hadjar.
Fair dinkum lap indeed. Antonelli got that divine intervention with Verstappen’s crash. Toto with a huge smile on his face.
Was hoping to see Hamilton higher up the order.
Lindblad and Hadjar with an impressive quali session.
Was hoping to see Hamilton higher up the order.
If those practice starts on the grid were any indication it might not take him long to make up some positions.
Watching that debris shatter by Norris’ car was quite mesmerizing. Broke beautifully into hundreds of pieces.
Truly pulverised lol
Let’s go Hadjar!
Merc back?
I’m liking the way these cars are not glued to the track. Looks tough as hell to find the edge, shaking up for a good season I think
I don’t really like that there is regeneration going on in fast corners instead of going pretty flat out.
Yeah, they gotta get these batteries like 30% bigger I think that would help with the straight line suffering. And a V8.
Spa will be interesting through eu rouge
The difference between Merc and the rest is staggering.
There will be a storm of development this year, they need to make the most of it early, as it’ll be a different pecking order later on
Also, this is just qualifying
What a horrible day at Merc
And we’re off 🏎️💨
Well, Max is.
Can’t remember the last time I saw Verstappen crash like that. So bizarre.
I mean, I’m not a Max fan at all, but that definitely didn’t look like driver error.
With how much negative torque is coming from MGU this year I expect teams will need a few more rounds to figure out car balance under braking.
There was a discussion about NOT getting the battery to 100% too, as you then unexpectedly loose breaking as the battery can’t charge.
Those Cadillacs are nowhere.
Unfortunate that Williams weren’t able to fix the issues on Sainz’s car.
Caddy will learn what it takes to turn the car up in quali. Their main goal isn’t to blow the car up in quali. They want to finish the race and get some useful data.
