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) 🔴
The coverage was absolutely weird. I remember looking at the standings mid race and suddenly going “hold on, when did Hulkenberg drop out?” and when Alonso came back on track and retired again I was like “when did that happen?” And I didn’t even know about the absolutely shocking Colapinto almost driving into Lawson until after the race when I saw Russell react to it in the cooldown room. I’m 100% sure I missed some fights because the broadcast was too busy showing Merc and Ferrari and then Max and Lando.
When did you start watching? Hülkenberg never started the race, so maybe you missed it because it happened before you started watching?
I guess I was too shocked from Piastri not starting that I didn’t notice Hülkenberg wasn’t on the grid.
At least on the Austrian feed we get told such things in audio (at least three times, because the commentators wants to drive home everything he says lol).