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 and third sprint race of the season:

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

2023 pole position: Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull one minute 04.391 seconds

2023 sprint winner: Verstappen

2023 race winner: Verstappen

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

Start time: 1300 GMT (1500 local)

AUSTRIA

The circuit is owned by Red Bull and has the shortest lap, in terms of time, on the calendar with just 10 corners but aggressive kerbs.

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

A 2.5m wide gravel strip has been added behind the kerb at the exit to turns nine and 10 after a flurry of track limits violations last year.

This year's Austrian race is the 37th in the history of the championship, with the first held at Zeltweg airfield in 1964 and then moving to Spielberg's Oesterreichring (a shortened version later named A1 Ring and now Red Bull Ring) in 1970.

The circuit also hosted the Styrian Grand Prix in 2020 and 2021, during the pandemic.

There have been 10 winners from pole in 19 races on the current configuration. The run from pole to turn one is 330m, with most overtakes occurring into turns three and four. Turns two, five and eight are taken at full throttle.

Verstappen (2018, 2019, 2021, 2023), Valtteri Bottas (2017, 2020), Charles Leclerc (2022) and Lewis Hamilton (2016) are the only drivers on the current grid to have won the Austrian GP.

Hamilton won the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix, and Verstappen won in 2021, at the same circuit.

CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD

Verstappen has led the championship for a record 49 successive