F1 Austrian GP Results (2023)

The weekend started with the formal qualifying taking place after FP1 on Friday. On Saturday the Sprint shootout was held. This race had no bearing on the Sunday event and was a separate event entirely.

Index

• Qualifying
• Sprint
• Main race

The Austrian GP Qualifying Results

Max Verstappen continued to reign supreme in Q1, finishing with a Q1 lap time of 01:05.116.

Logan Sargeant was the pole sitter when he last raced at the Red Bull Ring in F2. Unfortunately, he was not near the front in Q1 and ended up in 17th place meaning that he did not move onto Q2.

Alex Albon his teammate finished Q1 in 10th place at the same time as Lewis Hamilton (01:05.673).

Austrian GP – Qualifying Session 2

In what was to become a frustrating game changer for the whole event, the officials strictly enforced track limits. With the freak gusts of wind Alonso, Perez and Russel had their lap times deleted in Q2. Of the three only Alonso recovered and finished Q2 7th place.

Russel managed a better time on the next attempt and ended up in10th place. Sadly, other drivers achieved a faster time and knocked Russel below the cut off.

Perez ended up with another lap time deleted and he remained stuck in Q2.

Austrian GP – Qualifying Session 3

As expected, Max Verstappen ended up in pole position In Q3 with a lap time of 01:04.391.

Behind him Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz put up an epic struggle and achieved P2 and P3 respectively.

Lando Norris showed that the McLaren upgrades have made a difference and finished up in P4.

Lewis Hamiton came in 5th as the sole Mercedes in Q3. The very pleasing result was Lance Stroll managing to out qualify Fernando Alonso!

We list the full starting grid layout below.

The Austrian GP Sprint

Max Verstappen finished ahead of his teammate Sergio Perez with a mighty 21 second lead.

Hulkenberg had a great start, and for a while was following in second place. Unfortunately tire degradation forced him to slow down and then pit for a new set of slicks. Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz managed to use the opportunity to slip past.

Unfortunately, Sergio was too far behind to ever present a threat to Max Verstappen.

Lewis Hamilton managed a recovery to 10th place after starting in 18th.

The Austrian GP F1 Sprint Race Results

Now all eyes are in the main race on Sunday,

The Main Austrian GP F1 Race Results

Verstappen led from the start maintaining his pole position.

Tsunoda and Ocon collided in lap 1 which brough the safety car out.

On lap 14 Hulkenberg experienced engine problems which brought out the virtual safety car. Most of the pack opted for a cheap pit for new tires. Verstappen opted to stay out.

One of the most frustrating memories of this race will be the number of 5 second penalties which were imposed due to track limits being exceeded. In a sense the penalties played a major part in deciding the final resutlts.

Mercedes never found their pace and ended up with Hamilton and Russel in 7th and 8th place respectively.

The middle markers (Gasly, Stroll, Albon and Ocon) had a great race with lots of tussles during the event.

Logan Sargeant’s 13th place finish was impressive, as was his teammate’s 11th place.

Surely the most epic part of the race happened in the last ten lap battle between Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz. Sergio had the faster car, but Carlos held him off with a brilliant tactical use of the DRS zones. Sainz held Sergio off until lap 63, at which point the mastery of the red bull car revealed itself.

The Provisional Austrian GP F1 Race Results Are Listed Below

The Final Austrian GP F1 Race Results

Just when you thought it was safe to post the final results, Aston Martin goes and protests the number of track limit violations that were not penalized. During the event race control had over 1,200 track limit violations raised.

Aston Martin protested stating that a large number of cars were not penalized for a breach of Article 33.3 of the Sporting Regulations. Their protest was upheld and produced the following FINAL set of results.

The big losers were

• Carlos Sainz demoted from 3rd to 6th.
• Lewis Hamiton who swopped results with teammate George Russel – 7th to 8th.
• Pierre Gasly who swopped places with Lance Stroll – 9th to 10th.

The biggest impact is on the 2023 championship standings.

Final Austrian GP F1 Race Result Table

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References

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