Formula One statistics for the Australian Grand Prix

March 4 : Formula One statistics for Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix at Melbourne's Albert Park:

Lap distance: 5.278km. Total distance: 306.124km (58 laps)

2025 pole position: Lando Norris (Britain) McLaren one minute 15.096 seconds

2025 winner: Norris

Race lap record: Charles Leclerc (Monaco) Ferrari 1:19.830 (2024)

NOTE: The circuit was shortened by 28 metres, with two turns taken out and seven corners modified, in 2022.

Start time: 0400 GMT (1500 local)

AUSTRALIA

McLaren's Oscar Piastri is the only Australian driver in the race and no Australian has won a home grand prix.

This year’s race will be the 29th at Albert Park, and 40th in Australia. The Australian round was held in Adelaide, as the season-ender, between 1985 and 1995.

Although Melbourne is celebrating 30 years since it first hosted F1, the 2020 and 2021 rounds were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Seven of the current drivers have won in Melbourne: Fernando Alonso (2006), Lewis Hamilton (2008, 2015), Valtteri Bottas (2019), Charles Leclerc (2022), Max Verstappen (2023), Carlos Sainz (2024), Norris (2025).

Ferrari great Michael Schumacher won a record four times in Australia.

Hamilton has been on pole in Melbourne a record eight times (2008, 2012, 2014-2019). He made his F1 debut in Australia with McLaren in 2007.

McLaren have won12 times in Australia (seven in Melbourne), more than any other team overall.

The lowest-placed starter to win was Britain’s Eddie Irvine from 11th in 1999 for Ferrari.

Nineteen of the 28 races in Melbourne have been won from the front row.

RACE WINS

Hamilton has a record 105 career victories from 380 starts.

Verstappen has won 71 grands prix and is third on the all-time list after Schumacher on 91.

POLE POSITION

Hamilton has a