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) 🔴
  • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    There was a discussion about NOT getting the battery to 100% too, as you then unexpectedly loose breaking as the battery can’t charge.

    • schnokobaer@feddit.org
      1·
      2 months ago

      Or maybe you don’t lose braking but instead it falls back to the hydraulic disc calipers and those aren’t perfectly equal in braking force to the generator brake. Possibly in Max’ case they were a tad stronger, enough to spin him around instantly