The Red Bull Ring is around 670 meters above sea level. This also means that it will be more challenging for the brakes and the engine. The highlights of the Austrian Grand Prix:
The Red Bull Ring is around 670 meters above sea level. This also means that it will be more challenging for the brakes and the engine. The highlights of the Austrian Grand Prix:
The distance
Short, few curves, fast. The Red Bull Ring is only 4.318 kilometers long. Ten turns isn’t much either. The result: the drivers can complete a lap in a good minute. In the mid-1990s, what was then the Austria Ring, once an airport circuit in Zeltweg, was reworked and shortened by the German Formula 1 architect Hermann Tilke, giving it the name: A1-Ring. Since 2011 and further conversions, the route has been called the Red Bull Ring.
The location
Picturesque. The course is embedded in the mountain landscape of Styria. Pure nature. It’s almost 80 kilometers to Graz and 200 kilometers to Vienna. Also worth mentioning: the course is around 670 meters above sea level.
That’s how it went last time
It became Max Verstappen’s show. His fans in the stands turned the race into a big Oranje party – and the Dutchman delivered in his Red Bull. Like a week earlier at the same place, he achieved an effortless start-finish victory. Second was the then Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas ahead of Lando Norris in the McLaren. Sebastian Vettel finished 17th in the Aston Martin, Mick Schumacher one place later in the Haas.
