Formula One statistics for the Austrian Grand Prix

Formula One statistics for Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix at Spielberg, the 11th round of the 24-race championship.

Lap distance: 4.318km. Total distance: 306.452km (71 laps)

2024 pole position: Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull, One minute 04.314 seconds.

2024 winner: George Russell (Britain) Mercedes

Race lap record: Carlos Sainz (Spain) Ferrari 1:05.619, 2020

Start time: 1300 GMT (1500 local)

AUSTRIA

The Red Bull-owned circuit has the shortest lap, in terms of time, on the calendar with only 10 corners but aggressive kerbs. It takes a little over a minute to complete.

It also has the second biggest difference between its highest and lowest points (69m), after Spa-Francorchamps.

This year will be the 38th Austrian Grand Prix.

The first was held at Zeltweg airfield in 1964 and moved to the Oesterreichring (later renamed A1 Ring and now Red Bull Ring) in 1970.

There have been 10 winners from pole in 20 races on the current configuration. Most overtakes occur into turns three and four. Turns two, five and eight are taken at full throttle.

Verstappen has a record four Austrian wins (2018, 2019, 2021, 2023) and other active winners are Charles Leclerc (2022), Lewis Hamilton (2016) and George Russell (2024).

Mercedes are the most successful team in Austria with seven victories.

Hamilton and Verstappen also won the two Styrian GPs held at the same circuit during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021.

The last three editions of the race have run as a sprint weekend but this year reverts to its traditional schedule.

CHAMPIONSHIP

McLaren's Oscar Piastri leads the drivers' championship by 22 points from teammate Lando Norris. Verstappen is 43 points behind Piastri.

Leaders and champions McLaren are 175 points clear of Mercedes, with Ferrari a further 16 adrift.

RACE WINS

Piastri has won five of 10 races this season, Verstappen and Norris two each and Russell one.

Seven-times world champion Hamilton has a record 105 career victories from 366 starts. Verstappen has won 65 grands prix and is third on the all-time list after Schumacher on 91.

Piastri has seven career wins to Norris's six and can become the first Australian to win six in a season.

POLE POSITION

Piastri has been on pole four times this season, Verstappen three, Norris twice and Russell once.

Norris has started on the front row in five of 10.

PODIUM

Both McLaren drivers have finished on the podium eight times in 2025 but Piastri's run of eight in a row ended in Canada two weeks ago.

Charles Leclerc's second place in Monaco was Ferrari's best of the season so far.

POINTS

Only Piastri and Verstappen have scored in every race this season, with Norris' run ending after a late collision with his teammate in Canada.

Piastri has scored for 36 races in a row.

Two rookies have yet to score -- Sauber's Gabriel Bortoleto and Alpine's Franco Colapinto. REUTERS