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) 🔴
  • LCP@lemmy.world
    19·
    9 days ago

    Watching that debris shatter by Norris’ car was quite mesmerizing. Broke beautifully into hundreds of pieces.

  • LCP@lemmy.world
    14·
    9 days ago

    Those Cadillacs are nowhere.

    Unfortunate that Williams weren’t able to fix the issues on Sainz’s car.

    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
      8·
      9 days ago

      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.

  • LCP@lemmy.world
    13·
    9 days ago

    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.

    • FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      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.

      • LCP@lemmy.world
        6·
        9 days ago

        Can’t remember the last time I saw Verstappen crash like that. So bizarre.

        • Tagger@lemmy.world
          12·
          9 days ago

          I mean, I’m not a Max fan at all, but that definitely didn’t look like driver error.

            • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
              3·
              9 days ago

              There was a discussion about NOT getting the battery to 100% too, as you then unexpectedly loose breaking as the battery can’t charge.

              • schnokobaer@feddit.org
                1·
                9 days ago

                Or maybe you don’t lose braking but instead it falls back to the hydraulic disc calipers and those aren’t perfectly equal in braking force to the generator brake. Possibly in Max’ case they were a tad stronger, enough to spin him around instantly

            • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
              1·
              9 days ago

              Looks like the rest of the cars have it relatively figured out though. At the beginning if testing you saw a lot more cars struggling to brake than now. Maybe it was a very unfortunate error in Max car system.

          • LCP@lemmy.world
            3·
            9 days ago

            Oh yeah didn’t mean to imply driver error. Just stunned seeing his car go off like that.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    9 days ago

    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

  • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    Damn, I switched out antonelli, probably could have kept him in.

    My fantasy team is a bit of a mess. They did a much better job of the starting prices this year.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      9 days ago

      The starting prices are sideways IMO with alpine, williams and aston lagging. The sharp end of the midfield are some the cheapest drivers right now

  • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    Are hulks steering wheel lights showing battery charge as well as revs?