ROUND 1: 🇦🇺 Australia
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2026
Weekend Schedule
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- Practice 1: Friday, 02:30 CET | 01:30 UTC
- Practice 2: Friday, 06:00 CET | 05:00 UTC
- Practice 3: Saturday, 02:30 CET | 01:30 UTC
- Qualifying: Saturday, 06:00 CET | 05:00 UTC
- Race: Sunday, 05:00 CET | 04:00 UTC
Circuit stats & Tyres
- First Grand Prix: 1996
- Number of laps: 58
- Circuit Length: 5.278 km
- Race Distance: 306.124 km
- Lap record: 1:19.813 Charles Leclerc (2024)
- 2025 Pole: Lando Norris (1:15.096)
- 2025 Fastest Lap: Lando Norris (1:22.167)
- 2025 winner: Lando Norris
- Pirelli Tyres: C3 (Hard) ⚪, C4 (Medium) 🟡, C5 (Soft) 🔴
Turn 3 taking names. I didn’t get a chance to watch fp1, but in fp2 the Ferrari didn’t look like anything special. Also it seemed like everyone was sliding off the track. I know practice is for finding the limits, but seems like more offs than usual. Did fp1 have as much carnage?
Quali should be good if they’re still learning where the limits are.
Fp1 didn’t have that much, a couple but if you watch broadbent on YouTube he did a comparison in the sim of the last gen cars vs one based on the new regs. Seems like this year the cars are way more twitchy than last year’s and they seem more likely to lock the front during breaking which tracks with pre season testing.