{"id":759463,"date":"2026-06-25T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759463\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:57:10","slug":"circuit-guide-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-red-bull-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759463\/","title":{"rendered":"CIRCUIT GUIDE: Everything you need to know about the Red Bull Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a week off, F1 returns to action this weekend with the Austrian Grand Prix. But how much do you know about the Red Bull Ring track? F1.com has your all-in-one guide\u2026<\/p>\n

When was Austria\u2019s first Grand Prix?<\/p>\n

Austria<\/a> first played host to a World Championship F1 Grand Prix back in 1964, at the Zeltweg Airfield circuit, before moving over to the \u00d6sterreichring \u2013 the original track that is now known as the Red Bull Ring \u2013 from 1970 through to the late-1980s.<\/p>\n

After almost a decade off the calendar, the fearsome \u00d6sterreichring was turned into a shorter, modernised circuit renamed as the A1-Ring, bringing F1 back to Austria for another seven-year period across the late-1990s and early-2000s.<\/p>\n

Another break and another revamp followed, with billionaire Red Bull<\/a> co-founder and owner Dietrich Mateschitz purchasing the A1-Ring in 2004 and rebranding it as the Red Bull Ring, alongside the Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso teams he would establish.<\/p>\n

Austria made its latest F1 comeback in 2014 and has remained in place since \u2013 Max Verstappen<\/a>\u2019s victories at the Spielberg venue in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2023 giving Red Bull something to shout about on their home soil, and at their very own track.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the circuit like to drive?<\/p>\n

While it is a short lap, the Red Bull Ring packs a lot into just over four kilometres.<\/p>\n

The first half of the circuit rewards power, as cars blast along three straights punctuated by a pair of uphill right-handers \u2013 the run to Turn 3 a particularly steep one.<\/p>\n

Then, as drivers work their way downhill, the track turns into toboggan ride, canyoning through a series of quick corners, including the exhilarating Rindt right-hander, named after Austria\u2019s first F1 champion, Jochen.<\/p>\n

Jolyon Palmer, former Renault F1 driver, adds: \u201cAustria is a picturesque circuit, really undulating, which makes it nice to drive and characterful.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be careful with the kerbs as it\u2019s very easy to get straddling or to get over some more abrasive ones, which can inflict a bit of damage to your car, but beyond that, it\u2019s a short and relatively simple circuit with some hidden technicalities.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurn 1 is always quicker than you think it\u2019s going to be, but braking is the order of the day for the first sector. Turn 4, a downhill braking zone, is the easiest one to mess up \u2013 so many drivers end up in the gravel there on the exit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s overtaking aplenty in Turns 3 and 4, and then the flow through the second half of the lap is really good as it just comes around so quickly. It\u2019s one of the fastest on the calendar and it really feels it at the wheel. You barely get a breath through this Grand Prix.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a week off, F1 returns to action this weekend with the Austrian Grand Prix. But how much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-759463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}