Austrian Grand Prix 2025: Start time, schedule, how to watch F1 and weather forecast
A thrilling 2025 Formula One season continues this weekend with the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring.
McLaren will be hoping for a smoother time of it in Spielberg for round 11 after the drama that unfolded in Canada a fortnight ago, when team-mates and title rivals Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri collided with four laps to go, knocking Norris out of the race and leaving the apologetic Briton with some tough questions to answer.
Championship leader Piastri managed to continue and finish fourth, with George Russell turning his impressive pole position into a wire-to-wire win - his first of the season - on a terrific day for Mercedes at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in which rookie Kimi Antonelli also grabbed his first podium behind Max Verstappen.
The chaos in Montreal left Norris 22 points behind Piastri in the drivers' standings, with Verstappen a further 21 adrift ahead of Russell.
Norris has admitted his need to stop making so many mistakes and heads to Austria with little margin for error, though he made a good start at the home of Red Bull by topping practice ahead of Piastri on Friday.
The 2025 Austrian Grand Prix takes place on Sunday, June 29 at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Styria, where Russell took a surprise win last year following a collision between Norris and Verstappen.
The race is due to start at 2pm BST, which is 3pm local time in Austria.
The first two practice sessions were both held on Friday afternoon, with a third to follow at 11:30am BST on Saturday morning.
Qualifying is at 3pm BST on Saturday, followed by the race at 2pm on Sunday.
Grid positions for the Austrian Grand Prix will be decided during qualifying on Saturday afternoon. Check back in then to see the results.
TV channel: Every session from the Austrian Grand Prix is being shown live in the UK on Sky Sports' dedicated F1 channel.
Coverage of Grand Prix Sunday begins from 1pm BST on Sunday. Free-to-air highlights of the race will be broadcast on Channel 4 at 6:30pm.
Live stream: Sky Sports subscribers can also view everything live online via the Sky Go app.
A hot and dry weekend is forecast in Spielberg, with sunny intervals on both Saturday and Sunday, plus a gentle breeze and temperatures reaching approximately 30 degrees during the race.
There looks to be no chance of any rain at the picturesque Red Bull Ring as things stand.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
15 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Motor racing-Former Ferrari boss Montezemolo becomes a McLaren Group director
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) -Former Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo has joined the board of historic rival McLaren, a move that would have been unimaginable not so long ago. A filing with Companies House by Abu Dhabi-owned McLaren Group Holdings, which controls Woking-based sportscar maker McLaren Automotive, registered Montezemolo as a director on June 27. The 77-year-old Italian joined Ferrari in 1973 as founder Enzo Ferrari's assistant and became team manager in 1974, a year before the late Austrian triple champion Niki Lauda secured his first title. He also presided over the Formula One team during a golden era when Michael Schumacher won five of his career seven titles between 2000-2004 and served as chairman of both Ferrari and parent FIAT. McLaren and Ferrari, the two oldest and most successful teams in Formula One history, have been rivals for decades and were involved in a notorious 'Spygate' scandal that erupted in 2007. British-based McLaren were stripped of all their championship points and fined a record $100 million over a dossier of stolen Ferrari technical documents found in the possession of McLaren's chief designer. Both Ferrari and McLaren are under different management now, with Montezemolo resigning his roles at the Italian luxury sportscar maker in 2014 and focusing on other business interests. CYVN, majority-owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, created McLaren Group Holdings in April after completing its acquisition of McLaren Automotive. The group includes a non-controlling stake in McLaren Racing, the Formula One team whose majority shareholder is Bahrain's Mumtalakat and which operates completely independently. Paul Walsh, executive chairman of McLaren Racing, is also one of the nine directors of McLaren Group Holdings, while McLaren team principal Andrea Stella previously worked for Ferrari. McLaren are the reigning Formula One constructors' world champions while Ferrari last won a title in 2008. Seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton, who took his first title for McLaren in 2008, is now driving for Ferrari. News of Montezemolo's new role was greeted with some amazement in Italy. "Montezemolo-McLaren: What a slap in the face to Ferrari," said sports newspaper Tuttosport in a headline. ANSA news agency quoted Montezemolo as saying his heart "is and always will be red" and his new role was on the automotive side and did not involve Formula One.
Atlantic
30 minutes ago
- Atlantic
A Sports Drama Told at 200 Miles an Hour
The stakes are almost embarrassingly simple: A man needs to win a race. F1 is a loud sports epic that thrusts the viewer into the high-octane, technocratic world of Formula One racing. These competitions are decided by complex car engineering and tactical pit stops; individual drivers are only as important as the car companies they work for. The film's director, Joseph Kosinski, best known for the box-office sensation Top Gun: Maverick, accounts for this system's intricacies by stripping the plot of any complications. Instead, in collaboration with Formula One's regulating body, he creates a straightforward underdog tale, made compelling by its fidelity to the world's fastest races. Brad Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, an over-the-hill, salt-of-the-earth gearhead who washed out of Formula 1 decades ago and has since taken on any racing challenge that he can. (He even drives a New York City cab at one point.) He returns to the sport when another former competitor, Ruben Cervantes (played by Javier Bardem), recruits Sonny to bolster the flailing, upstart team that Cervantes now owns. If his crew doesn't win at least one race this season, the governing board can fire Cervantes, so Sonny joins up for one last rodeo. In real life, Formula One is defined by the companies (known as 'constructors') that sink seemingly unlimited resources into getting to the top year after year—well-known brands such as Ferrari and Mercedes. F1 sticks them in the background (alongside actual racers such as Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen) while focusing on the fictional crew run by Cervantes, called APX. 'I wanted to tell the story of the team at the bottom,' Kosinski told me. And rather than villainize any particular corporation—as James Mangold did in his period piece Ford v Ferrari —the director said that he was more intrigued by a quirk of Formula One, where constructors have multiple drivers in the field for each race. The big competition, then, is an internal one. That means Sonny's biggest obstacle isn't trying to overcome a champion such as Hamilton (who is listed as a producer on the film). His struggle is learning to work alongside one of his younger peers, Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). 'This notion of your teammate being your enemy, to me, that's great for drama,' Kosinski told me, defining it as 'that meta thing of a veteran and a rookie.' Whereas in Top Gun: Maverick, he explained, he was exploring a father-son dynamic, in F1, he sought to examine the relationship between two rivals. This clever conflict helps the film upend the usual, dull stakes that have befouled so many works of its ilk in the past. The most successful racing movies of late have leaned more artistic than mainstream, while more extravagant attempts have failed either commercially or critically. F1 doesn't quite slot into either category; it's more of a long-shot sports saga with the peaks and valleys of joy and despair that come with it. (Think Hoosiers or Rocky, except with scenes set in Monaco and Abu Dhabi.) It's familiar, but pleasantly so. The film still manages to dig into the peculiarities of Formula One within its big, meaty character study. The sport is well suited for that type of intimate storytelling. 'I can't think of another sport like that, where the sport is literally engineered to create that internal team conflict,' Kosinski said. 'That sense of internal competition brings the best and worst out of people.' The director discovered Formula One by watching the popular documentary series Formula 1: Drive to Survive, which brought greater visibility to the sport. He recalled how the first season focused on the last-place finishers, not the top ones: 'What's it like to be the team that goes and knows they're going to lose every weekend?' Questions like this one seem to undergird much of Kosinski's work. The director has long struck me as something of an under-sung auteur of big-budget features; he takes on brand-name franchises that are huge, technical challenges (such as his debut feature, Tron: Legacy), injecting humanity wherever possible. Top Gun: Maverick followed a plot befitting a legacy sequel—the growth of Tom Cruise's protagonist into someone older and wiser—but Kosinski made it seem like it was, on a deeper level, about Cruise's superhuman desire to stay relevant in Hollywood. The director similarly molds F1 around his star's more reluctant image: Pitt portrays a man of few words who seems nostalgic for simpler times in his industry. The specifics of Formula One border on arcane, and Kosinski gleefully plunges the viewer into all of its minutiae: the balance between aerodynamics and engine power in building the cars; the strategies behind taking a pit stop or passing another driver. Sonny is the viewer's tether to reality; he's happy to practice his steering-wheel grip using a common object—tennis balls—instead of an expensive contraption. (Joshua, meanwhile, employs a more intricate workout device.) Kosinski wanted to accurately depict the sport without losing viewers who are unfamiliar with or even intimidated by it. 'It's not just about people going around in circles,' he told me, pushing back against the mainstream image of Formula One as a bunch of rocket cars zooming around a track. 'It really is chess at 200 miles an hour.' F1 succeeds when it emphasizes that side of the sport, and as long as you can accept the well-trod beats of its plot. Pitt is there to glower and exude experience, and Idris brims with youthful, charismatic arrogance. Kosinski handles the racing scenes with the mechanical prowess he showed off in Top Gun: Maverick, mounting cameras to cars and highlighting their velocity in surprising ways. Sonny's quest to prove his doubters wrong resembles the arc of many a sports drama. But Kosinski elevates that journey by capturing racing in all of its gorgeous, peculiar glory—there's never been a portrait of Formula One quite like it.
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Norris tops final practice for F1 Canadian GP ahead of Piastri
Lando Norris of the McLaren F1 Team drives during the final practice for the Formula One Austrian Grand Prix. Luca Barsali/LiveMedia-IPA/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa Lando Norris led an one-two for McLaren ahead of team-mate Oscar Piastri in the final practice for the Formula One Austrian Grand Prix on Saturday. It was a repetition of Friday's second practice result, with the Red Bull of Max Verstappen also completing the top three. Advertisement Ahead of qualifying later, Norris clocked 1 minute 04.324 seconds, 0.118s faster than championship leader Piastri. Verstappen was 0.210s off the pace. Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton were fourth and fifth for Ferrari, respectively, followed by the Mercedes cars of George Russell and Kimi Antonelli. Piastri tops the drivers' standings 22 points ahead of Norris. Tension between the two title contenders peaked at the Canadian Grand Prix two weeks ago when they collided with three laps left to the end of the race, with Norris braking too late and running into the back of the championship leader. Advertisement While Piastri finished the race in fourth, Norris couldn't cross the finish line and missed some crucial points. Verstappen, meanwhile, was second in Montreal and will try to be back on the top of the podium at Red Bull's home race in Austria, but needs to watch out as he's one penalty point away from a race ban.
