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2020 Austrian Grand Prix
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Layout of the Red Bull Ring
Layout of the Red Bull Ring
Race details[1]
Date 5 July 2020
Official name Formula 1 Rolex Großer Preis von Österreich 2020
Location Red Bull Ring
Spielberg, Styria, Austria
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.318 km (2.683 miles)
Scheduled distance 71 laps, 306.452 km (190.420 miles)
Attendance 0[b]
Pole position
Driver
Mercedes
Time 1:02.939

The 2020 Austrian Grand Prix (officially known as Formula 1 Rolex Großer Preis von Österreich 2020) is a Formula One motor race that is scheduled to be held on 5 July 2020 at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. The race is due to be the opening round of the 2020 Formula One World Championship, and the first of two consecutive races to be held at the Red Bull Ring.[2]

Lewis Hamilton entered the round as the defending World Drivers' Champion and his team, Mercedes, is the defending World Constructors' Champion. Max Verstappen is the defending race winner, having won the 2018 and 2019 Austrian Grands Prix.[3][4]

Background

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

See also: 2020 Formula One World Championship § Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and COVID-19 pandemic in Austria

The originally scheduled calendar for the 2020 championship was heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Several Grands Prix were cancelled or postponed after the aborted opening round in Australia, prompting the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile to draft a new calendar. The start of the championship was delayed until 5 July, with the Red Bull Ring hosting the Austrian Grand Prix as the opening round of the championship. Organisers of the race signed a contract with Liberty Media, the sport's commercial rights holder, to host a second round at the circuit on 12 July (a week after the first race) to be known as the Styrian Grand Prix.[5] The back-to-back Austrian races would mark the first time that a country hosts back-to-back races in the same season since 1995 when Japan hosted the Pacific and Japanese Grands Prix.[c] This would also mark the first time in the sport's history that the same venue and circuit layout would have hosted back-to-back World Championship races.[6]

Entrants

Further information: 2020 Formula One World Championship § Entries

Twenty drivers representing ten teams entered the race.[7] Scuderia AlphaTauri made their debut as a constructor having previously competed under the name Scuderia Toro Rosso.[8] Esteban Ocon made a return to the championship with Renault.[9] Nicholas Latifi made his competitive debut with Williams.[10]

Mission Winnow, the title sponsor of Ferrari, was banned from the race as it did not comply with local laws governing tobacco sponsorship.[11]

Tyres

Further information: Formula One tyres

Pirelli brought C2, C3 and C4 (designated hard, medium and soft respectively) compounds of tyres for teams to use at the event.[12] In recognition of need to cut cost and to give Pirelli achievable targets due to the congested calendar all drivers received identical tyre allocations getting two sets of hards, three sets of mediums and eight sets of softs.[13]

Practice

All three practice sessions ended with Lewis Hamilton in first ahead of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas. Red Bull's Max Verstappen was third fastest in the first and third sessions session while Racing Point's Sergio Pérez came third in the second session. The first two sessions ran without major incidents, however, the third practice session was temporarily red flagged when Nicholas Latifi crashed at turn one.[14][15][16]

Qualifying

Mercedes finished 1–2 in qualifying with Bottas taking pole ahead of his team-mate Hamilton, despite Bottas going into the gravel in his last Q3 attempt, with Max Verstappen 3rd in his Red Bull RB16, 0.5 seconds behind the Mercedes pair. Lando Norris qualified a career best 4th in his McLaren ahead of Verstappen's Red Bull team-mate Alexander Albon in 5th with Sergio Pérez of Racing Point in 6th. Ferrari struggled in the session with Charles Leclerc only qualifying in 7th place, nearly one second off pole position, while his-team mate Sebastian Vettel finished in 11th place after failing to make it into Q3. The rest of the top 10 after Leclerc was rounded out by Carlos Sainz Jr. in 8th in the second McLaren, Lance Stroll 9th in the second Racing Point and Daniel Ricciardo in 10th for Renault.

Earlier in Q1 the Alfa Romeo Racing team saw both their drivers eliminated with Antonio Giovinazzi and his team-mate Kimi Räikkönen qualifying in 18th and 19th places respectively behind the Williams of 2018 Formula 2 champion George Russell and only ahead of the other Williams car of debutant Nicholas Latifi who qualified 20th on the grid.[17][18]

Post-qualifying, Hamilton was summoned to the stewards for allegedly ignoring yellow flags shown during Bottas's error, but was cleared of any wrongdoing after stewards concluded that "conflicting signals were shown to the driver".[19] However prior to the race start, Lewis Hamilton was summoned to the stewards for a review of the dicedion and given a three place grid penalty after all, following a protest by Red Bull over the FIA’s original decision to clear the Mercedes driver of any wrongdoing.[20]

Qualifying classification

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Qualifying times Final
grid
Q1 Q2 Q3
1 77 Finland Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 1:04.111 1:03.015 1:02.939 1
2 44 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:04.198 1:03.096 1:02.951 51
3 33 Netherlands Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-Honda 1:04.024 1:04.000 1:03.477 2
4 4 United Kingdom Lando Norris McLaren-Renault 1:04.606 1:03.819 1:03.626 3
5 23 Thailand Alexander Albon Red Bull Racing-Honda 1:04.661 1:03.746 1:03.8682 4
6 11 Mexico Sergio Pérez Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 1:04.543 1:03.860 1:03.8682 6
7 16 Monaco Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:04.500 1:04.041 1:03.923 7
8 55 Spain Carlos Sainz Jr. McLaren-Renault 1:04.537 1:03.971 1:03.971 8
9 18 Canada Lance Stroll Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 1:04.309 1:03.955 1:04.029 9
10 3 Australia Daniel Ricciardo Renault 1:04.556 1:04.023 1:04.239 10
11 5 Germany Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1:04.554 1:04.206 N/A 11
12 10 France Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri-Honda 1:04.603 1:04.305 N/A 12
13 26 Russia Daniil Kvyat AlphaTauri-Honda 1:05.031 1:04.431 N/A 13
14 31 France Esteban Ocon Renault 1:04.993 1:04.643 N/A 14
15 8 France Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 1:05.094 1:04.691 N/A 15
16 20 Denmark Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 1:05.164 N/A N/A 16
17 63 United Kingdom George Russell Williams-Mercedes 1:05.167 N/A N/A 17
18 99 Italy Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 1:05.175 N/A N/A 18
19 7 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 1:05.224 N/A N/A 19
20 6 Canada Nicholas Latifi Williams-Mercedes 1:05.737 N/A N/A 20
107% time: 1:08.505
Source:[18][21]
Notes
  • ^1 – Lewis Hamilton received a three-place grid penalty for failing to slow for yellow flags during qualifying.[21]
  • ^2 – Alexander Albon and Sergio Pérez set identical times in Q3; Albon was classified ahead as he set his lap time earlier.[18]

Notes

  1. ^ The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic saw several Grands Prix cancelled or rescheduled. A new calendar was published consisting of eight races, but the sport's management announced that they expected the final calendar to have as many as eighteen.
  2. ^ The Grand Prix was held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria.
  3. ^ The 1995 Australian Grand Prix was the last of the 1995 season and the 1996 race was the first race of the 1996 season, which marks the last time a country hosted two consecutive Grands Prix, albeit not in the same season.

References

  1. ^ "Austrian Grand Prix 2020 – F1 Race". Formula1.com.
  2. ^ "F1 confirms first 8 races of revised 2020 calendar, starting with Austria double header". formula1.com. Formula One. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Formula 1 Eyetime Grosser Preis von Österreich 2018 – Race Result". Formula1.com. Formula One World Championship Limited. 1 July 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Formula 1 myWorld Grosser Preis von Österreich 2019 – Race Result". formula1.com. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  5. ^ Bach, Ralf (18 April 2020). "Almost done: F1 season opener with two races in Austria". F1-Insider.com. Archived from the original on 19 May 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  6. ^ Haldenby, Nicky (11 June 2020). "Consecutive Formula 1 races held in the same country". Lights Out. Retrieved 22 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "2020 Austrian Grand Prix – Entry List" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 2 July 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Mitchell, Scott (16 October 2019). "Toro Rosso's name change approved for 2020 Formula 1 season". autosport.com. Motorsport Network. Archived from the original on 16 October 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  9. ^ "Esteban Ocon joins Renault F1 Team". renaultsport.com. Renault Sport. 29 August 2019. Archived from the original on 29 August 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  10. ^ "Latifi to Williams for 2020: F2 racer replaces Kubica". formula1.com. 28 November 2019. Archived from the original on 28 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
  11. ^ Franco Nugnes (4 July 2020). "Ferrari: dalla SF1000 è sparito lo sponsor Weichai". motorsport.com (in Italian). Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  12. ^ Cooper, Adam. "Tyre compounds will switch for second F1 race of Silverstone double-header". Autosport.com. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  13. ^ "All drivers to get same Pirelli tyre allocations". PlanetF1. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  14. ^ "Austrian Grand Prix FP1 report and highlights: Mercedes return with 1-2 as Hamilton tops first session of 2020". formula1.com. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ "Austrian Grand Prix 2020 FP2 report and highlights: Hamilton heads another Mercedes 1-2 with Racing Point's Perez third". formula1.com. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ "FP3: Hamilton seals another Mercedes 1-2 in third practice ahead of Verstappen and Perez". formula1.com. 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ^ "Qualifying report and highlights: Scintillating Bottas takes masterful pole as Ferrari struggle in Austria". Formula1.com. 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ a b c "Formula 1 Rolex Grosser Preis von Österreich 2020 – Qualifying". Formula1.com. 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  19. ^ "Hamilton escapes penalty, retains front-row slot". www.motorsport.com. 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  20. ^ . Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile. 5 July 2020 https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/decision-document/2020%20Austrian%20Grand%20Prix%20-%20Offence%20-%20Car%2044%20-%20Failure%20to%20slow%20for%20yellow%20flags%20(post%20review).pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |tititle= ignored (help)
  21. ^ a b "Formula 1 Rolex Grosser Preis von Österreich 2020 – Starting Grid". Formula1.com. 5 July 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
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