Round 3 · 2023

Australian Grand Prix

Melbourne, Australia · 2 Apr 2023

The main event. Most laps wins; points go to the top 10.

How the race went

Max Verstappen won the race from pole, finishing 0.179s ahead of Lewis Hamilton.

The Safety Car came out 3 times, there was 1 Virtual Safety Car and the race was stopped by 4 red flags.
Oscar Piastri was the big mover, climbing from P16 to P8.
Sergio Perez set the fastest lap: 1:20.235 on lap 53.
Max Verstappen's tyres: Medium → Hard → Soft → Soft.
8 drivers didn't finish: Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon, Nyck De Vries and Logan Sargeant and others.
A dry race, with the track around 30°C.
264 overtakes recorded.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Time / gap	Pts
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	2:32:38.371	25
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	3 ▲1	+0.179s	18
3	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	4 ▲1	+0.769s	15
4	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	6 ▲2	+3.082s	12
5	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	–	+3.32s	11
6	Lando Norris	McLaren	13 ▲7	+3.701s	8
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Haas F1 Team	10 ▲3	+4.939s	6
8	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	16 ▲8	+5.382s	4
9	Guanyu Zhou	Alfa Romeo	17 ▲8	+5.713s	2
10	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	12 ▲2	+6.052s	1
11	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	–	+6.513s	0
12	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	5 ▼7	+6.594s	0
13	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	9 ▼4	DNF	0
14	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	11 ▼3	DNF	0
15	Nyck De Vries	AlphaTauri	15	DNF	0
16	Logan Sargeant	Williams	18 ▲2	DNF	0
17	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	14 ▼3	DNF	0
–	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	7	DNF	0
–	Alexander Albon	Williams	8	DNF	0
–	George Russell	Mercedes	2	DNF	0

Reading this table

Grid is where the driver started. ▲ means they gained places during the race, ▼ means they lost places. DNF = did not finish, DNS = did not start, DSQ = disqualified. The winner's time is the total race time; everyone else is shown as the gap behind the winner.