Ferrari have more podium finishes here than any other team and recorded their first Austrian Grand Prix win since 2003 in 2022, while Red Bull have won five of the last nine races at the their home track. Here’s everything you need to know about each team’s history at the Red Bull Ring!
RED BULL
WINS: 5, POLES: 5, PODIUMS: 10 | 2024 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX RESULT: VERSTAPPEN 5th, PEREZ 7th
Red Bull have won five of the last nine races held at their home track. Max Verstappen is Red Bull’s only winner in Austria, having won the 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2023 Austrian Grands Prix, plus the 2021 Styrian Grand Prix.
Since 2016, there have been only two races at the Red Bull Ring in which neither Red Bull driver has appeared on the podium. Both drivers retired from the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix, while Verstappen finished fifth after after a late race crash in 2024 and Sergio Perez finished only seventh.
With Verstappen winning and Sergio Perez finishing third, the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix was the first time that both Red Bull drivers appeared on the podium together at the Red Bull Ring.
In addition to their double DNF in the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix, there have been only four other occasions on which a Red Bull driver has failed to score here. Daniil Kvyat finished 12th in 2015, while Sebastian Vettel, Max Verstappen, Daniel Ricciardo and Sergio Perez each retired in 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2022 respectively.
Red Bull have taken pole at all of the last five races held at the Red Bull Ring. At the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen became the first Red Bull driver to qualify on the front row at the Red Bull Ring. The team have not yet locked out the front row at the track.
Sebastian Vettel in 2014, Daniel Ricciardo in 2015 and Sergio Perez in 2023 are the only Red Bull drivers who’ve failed to reach the final part of qualifying at the Red Bull Ring. All three were eliminated in Q2, with Perez recording the worst result with 15th in 2023.
MERCEDES
WINS: 7, POLES: 6, PODIUMS: 15 | 2024 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX RESULT: RUSSELL 1st, HAMILTON 4th
Mercedes have recorded seven wins at the Red Bull Ring since the track returned to the calendar in 2014. The team recorded 1-2 results in 2014, 2015 and at the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix. George Russell’s 2024 Austrian Grand Prix win was the team’s first here in four years.
Mercedes’ double DNF in 2018 and their seventh and eighth place finishes in 2023 are the only time that their cars have failed to finish in the top five at the track in their 13 appearances, as well as the only occasions that neither driver finished on the podium.
In 2023, George Russell became the first Mercedes driver to fail to reach the final part of qualifying in Austria. Lewis Hamilton is the only other Mercedes driver to qualify outside of the top five at this circuit. He did so by qualifying ninth in 2014 – a result of him having his first lap time in Q3 deleted for exceeding track limits and then spinning on his second attempt at a fast lap – and in 2022, when he crashed out in Q3. Both drivers crashed out in Q3 in 2022, but Russell still managed to qualify fourth.
The team have locked-out the front row four times at the circuit, most recently at the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix. The 2021 Styrian Grand Prix is the last time a Mercedes driver qualified on the front row at the Red Bull Ring.
FERRARI
WINS: 5, POLES: 8, PODIUMS: 28 | 2024 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX RESULT: SAINZ 3rd, LECLERC 11th
In 2022, Charles Leclerc brought Ferrari their first Austrian Grand Prix since 2003. 2021 was the first – and only – year in which Ferrari failed to finish on the podium in Austria since 2015.
Charles Leclerc came close to winning in 2019, but was overtaken by Max Verstappen in the closing stages. Leclerc went on to take a surprise podium finish at the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix, which was a largely uncompetitive season for the team. Leclerc returned to the podium with his 2022 win and finished as runner-up in 2023. Carlos Sainz kept Ferrari’s podium streak going at the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix, finishing third.
Ferrari have scored two 1-2 finishes at this track, the first at the first race here in 1970 and their last in controversial circumstances at the 2002 event.
Ferrari have recorded four double DNFs at this venue, with the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix marking their first double retirement in Austria since 1987.
Other than their 2020 double DNF, the team have recorded three further retirements since the track returned to the calendar in 2014: Kimi Raikkonen was out on Lap 1 in 2015, Sebastian Vettel retired on his birthday in 2016 and Carlos Sainz’s race came to a fiery end in 2022. The 1976 Austrian Grand Prix is the most recent F1 race at which Ferrari did not appear.
In 2019, Charles Leclerc took Ferrari’s first pole position at the Austrian Grand Prix since 2003. Ferrari have taken pole on eight occasions at Spielberg, including a solitary front row lock-out in 1983.
Since F1 returned to the track, Sebastian Vettel is the only Ferrari driver other than Leclerc to have qualified on the front row here, having done so in 2017. Leclerc also qualified on the front row in 2022 and 2023.
With both Leclerc and Carlos Sainz out in Q2 at the Austrian Grand Prix in 2021, it was the first time since 1984 that neither Ferrari driver qualified in the top ten at the circuit.
Since F1’s return to the Red Bull Ring, Kimi Raikkonen is the only Ferrari driver to record a Q1 exit. He did so in 2015 due to a miscommunication which saw him without enough time left in the session to set a more competitive lap time.
McLAREN
WINS: 6, POLES: 4, PODIUMS: 18 | 2024 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX RESULT: PIASTRI 2nd, NORRIS DNF
Lando Norris has recorded two podiums for McLaren in the last four years at the Red Bull Ring, while Oscar Piastri finished as runner-up in the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix.
McLaren share the record for most wins of any team in Austria. They won six of the nine races at the track between 1984 and 2001. Piastri’s second place in 2024 was McLaren’s first top two finish here since 2003.
In the last seven races at the track, Daniel Ricciardo’s 13th place at the 2021 Styrian Grand Prix, Oscar Piastri’s 16th place at the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix and Lando Norris’ DNF in 2024 (which occurred as the result of a crash with Max Verstappen when fighting for the win) are the only times that a McLaren driver has failed to score.
Between 2015 and 2017, McLaren recorded four DNFs in the three races at the circuit – including a double DNF in 2015. Norris’ 2024 retirement was the team’s first at the track since then.
McLaren have taken pole four times in Austria and have locked-out the front row twice, in 1999 and 2000. Double Q3 appearances for McLaren are rare at the Red Bull Ring, with only three double top ten qualifications since 2014 (at both races in 2020, and in 2024).
At the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix, Norris recorded the team’s first front row at the track since 2003. He qualified on the front row again in 2024.
ASTON MARTIN
WINS: 0, POLES: 0, PODIUMS: 0 | 2024 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX RESULT: STROLL 13th, ALONSO 18th
Since Formula 1’s return to Austria in 2014, the Silverstone-based team had never finished above sixth at the Red Bull Ring until Fernando Alonso finished fifth in 2023. The team has had plenty of sixth place results here, having finished sixth five times between 2014 and 2020.
The team has scored here more often than not since the Red Bull Ring re-joined the calendar in 2014 – but they did not score points in the 2021, 2022 or 2023 Austrian Grands Prix, with neither driver finishing in the top 12 in any of those three races.
The team recorded a double DNF here in 2016, while Lance Stroll’s retirement in the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix is the only other time that Team Silverstone have recorded a DNF at this track since its return to the calendar.
In their former Jordan guise, 1997 was the only year that the team finished with both cars in the points. The Jordan team never finished on the podium at this circuit.
At the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix, both Racing Point drivers reached Q3 – the first time the team had done so at the Red Bull Ring since being in its Force India guise in 2017.
The team’s best qualifying result at the track came in 2016, when Nico Hulkenberg qualified in third, which became a front row start following Nico Rosberg’s grid penalty.
In 2022, Aston Martin recorded a double Q1 exit but both Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll progressed to Q3 in 2023. Neither driver reached Q3 in 2024 – Alonso exited in Q2, while Stroll was out in Q1.
ALPINE
WINS: 0, POLES: 0, PODIUMS: 0 | 2024 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX RESULT: GASLY 10th, OCON 12th
Since F1’s return to Austria in 2014, Pastor Maldonado’s seventh place for Lotus in 2015 was the Enstone team’s best result at the track. That was until 2022, when Esteban Ocon finished fifth, recording the team’s best result at the venue since 1999.
Pierre Gasly’s tenth place made 2024 the seventh consecutive race at the venue in which the team picked up points. With both Ocon and Fernando Alonso in the points in 2022, it was the team’s first double points scoring race at the track since 1987.
The team has recorded five retirements at the track since 2014, the most recent of which was in the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix.
The 2022 Austrian Grand Prix marked the third time that both of the Enstone team’s drivers had qualified in the top ten at the Red Bull Ring, having also done so at the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix and the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix.
Esteban Ocon’s fifth place in the wet qualifying session for the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix is the Enstone team’s best qualifying result at the circuit since F1’s return to the track.
Since 2020, the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix is the only race at the venue for which neither driver has qualified in the top ten.
WILLIAMS
WINS: 3, POLES: 3, PODIUMS: 11 | 2024 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX RESULT: ALBON 15th, SARGEANT 19th
Williams have won the Austrian Grand Prix three times, including a 1-2 finish in 1987. The team has failed to score in any of the last nine races at the Red Bull Ring, with the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix marking the first time the team had failed to score at the track since 2001.
Williams scored podium finishes in both 2014 and 2015 at the Red Bull Ring, but have failed to finish in the top eight since then.
The team have recorded six double non-finishes here, but Felipe Massa’s DNF in 2016, George Russell’s retirement from the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix and Nicholas Latifi’s retirement in 2022 are the only non-finishes for Williams drivers at the track since its return to the calendar.
Williams took their most recent pole position here in 2014 thanks to Felipe Massa. It marked the second time the team had locked-out the front row at the track; the other time being in 1987.
The team reached Q3 with both cars in 2014, 2015 and 2016, but have recorded mostly Q1 exits since then. The only exceptions are Lance Stroll’s Q2 appearance in 2018, George Russell’s 12th place qualification at the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix – which marked Williams’ first non-Q1 exit in over a year – Russell’s Q3 appearance at the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix – the team’s first top ten qualification at any race in almost three years – and Alex Albon’s Q2 and Q3 appearances in 2022 and 2023 respectively.
VISA CASH APP RB
WINS: 0, POLES: 0, PODIUMS: 0 | 2024 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX RESULT: RICCIARDO 9th, TSUNODA 14th
In 2022, AlphaTauri failed to score points for the first time at the Red Bull Ring since 2019. Pierre Gasly finished seventh at the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix – the team’s best result at the track.
2024 was only the sixth time from 13 appearances at the circuit in which both of the team’s drivers reached the end of the race. The team recorded a double retirement on their first appearance at the circuit in 2014, and went on to record one DNF in all of the four years after that.
Until 2020, Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz were the team’s only points scorers here, with eighth places for Toro Rosso in 2015 and 2016 respectively. The team have scored five times since then, most recently with a ninth place result for Daniel Ricciardo in 2024.
Until 2021, there had been only four occasions on which a driver for the Red Bull junior team reached Q3 in Austria. Pierre Gasly’s eighth place in qualifying for the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix was the first time since 2017 that the team qualified in the top ten.
In 2021, both drivers reached Q3 in both races at the venue. Pierre Gasly recorded the team’s best-ever qualifying result at the track with sixth in both the Styrian and Austrian Grands Prix.
However, in 2022, both cars were eliminated in Q2 and lost positions in the Saturday sprint race. Both drivers were out in Q1 in 2023, recording the team’s first double Q1 exit at the Red Bull Ring. Both drivers exited in Q2 in 2024.
SAUBER
WINS: 0, POLES: 0, PODIUMS: 0 | 2024 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX RESULT: BOTTAS 16th, ZHOU 17th
In 2018 and 2019, both Sauber and Alfa Romeo finished in ninth and tenth. Antonio Giovinazzi continued the streak of one of this team’s cars finishing in the points with ninth place in the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix, while Kimi Raikkonen recorded the former Sauber team’s first DNF at the track since 2003. Neither of the team’s drivers have scored in any race at the track since then, with three 11th place finishes in the six races since.
Raikkonen’s fourth place in 2001 is the team’s best result at the circuit, while Pedro Diniz and Mika Salo scored the team’s only other points at the circuit with sixth place finishes in 1999 and 2000 respectively.
Jean Alesi recorded Sauber’s only front row start at the Austrian Grand Prix, qualifying in second in 1998.
2019 marked the first time that both of the team’s drivers qualified in the top ten at the track since 2002, while both drivers were eliminated in Q1 at both races at the track in 2020. In 2021, 2022 and 2023, while one driver reached Q2 at all four races, the other was out in Q1. Both drivers were out in Q1 in 2024.
Aside from 2019, Felipe Nasr’s ninth place in qualifying in 2015 is the only other time this team has reached Q3 since the track’s return to the calendar. Valtteri Bottas qualified in the top ten as a result of the F1 Sprint in 2022.
HAAS
WINS: 0, POLES: 0, PODIUMS: 0 | 2024 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX RESULT: HULKENBERG 6th, MAGNUSSEN 8th
Haas picked up points on all of their first three visits to the Red Bull Ring, but failed to score in the five races at the track between 2019 and 2021. Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher gave the team a return to the points in 2022, finishing in sixth and eighth and their diver line up of Nico Hulkenberg and Magnussen repeated the result in 2024.
Romain Grosjean recorded Haas’ best ever result at the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix with fourth place. While Grosjean took the team’s best result, Magnussen also finished fifth – the team’s best combined result in a single Grand Prix to date.
Until 2020, Magnussen’s retirement in 2017 was the only time a Haas car has failed to finish a race at this circuit but both drivers retired from the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix and Hulkenberg was an early retiree in the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix.
2018 and 2022 are the only seasons in which both Haas drivers have reached the final part of qualifying in Austria. Kevin Magnussen is the team’s best qualifier at the track to date, with fifth in 2019. At least one Haas driver has reached Q3 at the circuit in all of the last three seasons.
In 2020, the team recorded their first Q1 exits at the track, with Magnussen only 16th in qualifying at the Austrian Grand Prix and Grosjean failing to set a time in qualifying at the Styrian Grand Prix. In 2021, Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin locked out the back row in both races at the track.
