Verstappen's Brake Failure: Behind the Scenes of Melbourne's Fiasco
Apr.6 - Max Verstappen's brake failure in Melbourne - his first technical DNF for two years - could have been caused by a simple case of a forgotten loose screw. Supplier Brembo..
Australian Formula 1 GP Details | |
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Grand Prix nr: | 3 | 2024 Australian F1 GP Preview |
Date: | 24th of March 2024 |
Track: | Albert Park Circuit |
Lap Distance: | 5.303 km / 3.295 miles |
Total Laps: | 58 |
Distance: | 307.574 km / 191.118 miles |
Tyre compounds: | ⚪Hard C3, ???? Medium C4, ????Soft C5 |
2024 Australian GP F1 Event Timetable | ||||||
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Date | Part | Local | CET | UK | LA | Tokio |
March 22nd | FP1 FP2 | 12:30 16:00 | 03:30 07:00 | 02:30 06:00 | 19:30 23:00 | 11:30 15:00 |
March 23th | FP3 Quali | 12:30 16:00 | 03:30 07:00 | 02:30 06:00 | 19:30 23:00 | 11:30 15:00 |
March 24th | Grid Race | 15:00 | 07:00 | 06:00 | 22:00 | 14:00 |
F1 Tickets Australian Grand Prix |
Driver | GP | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Pod | Pole | FL | Avg Grid | Avg Pos | Points | |
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1 | Michael Schumacher | 19 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4.8 | 11.1 | 58 |
2 | Sebastian Vettel | 13 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 5.0 | 8.1 | 150 |
3 | Jenson Button | 17 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9.2 | 9.5 | 88 |
4 | Lewis Hamilton | 16 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 4.1 | 5.8 | 194 |
5 | David Coulthard | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7.1 | 10.0 | 39 |
6 | Kimi Räikkönen | 17 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 8.2 | 7.4 | 99 |
7 | Nico Rosberg | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6.5 | 8.6 | 89 |
8 | Gerhard Berger | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6.0 | 8.3 | 39 |
9 | Alain Prost | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2.9 | 9.1 | 28 |
10 | Ayrton Senna | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1.7 | 10.3 | 21 |
11 | Damon Hill | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4.7 | 8.7 | 24 |
12 | Fernando Alonso | 19 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 8.5 | 6.5 | 134 |
13 | Nigel Mansell | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2.6 | 11.1 | 19 |
14 | Nelson Piquet | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 20.5 |
15 | Charles Leclerc | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7.0 | 8.2 | 55 |
16 | Valtteri Bottas | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11.4 | 8.0 | 63 |
17 | Max Verstappen | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4.1 | 9.4 | 59 |
18 | Eddie Irvine | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9.4 | 12.1 | 20 |
19 | Thierry Boutsen | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 9.9 | 19 |
20 | Mika Häkkinen | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6.1 | 11.5 | 16 |
21 | Carlos Sainz | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8.3 | 11.1 | 34 |
22 | Giancarlo Fisichella | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10.4 | 10.3 | 23 |
23 | Keke Rosberg | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5.0 | 7.5 | 9 |
24 | Rubens Barrichello | 19 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 8.1 | 10.3 | 45 |
25 | Juan Pablo Montoya | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6.2 | 7.3 | 21 |
26 | Heinz-Harald Frentzen | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6.6 | 7.6 | 15 |
27 | Sergio Pérez | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12.6 | 9.7 | 51 |
28 | Kevin Magnussen | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11.5 | 11.6 | 27 |
29 | Nick Heidfeld | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9.8 | 10.4 | 21 |
30 | Robert Kubica | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 | 12.4 | 18 |
31 | Jacques Villeneuve | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7.5 | 10.6 | 14 |
32 | Olivier Panis | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12.9 | 9.8 | 10 |
33 | Jacques Laffite | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 | 2.0 | 6 |
34 | Alessandro Nannini | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10.8 | 16.5 | 6 |
35 | Michele Alboreto | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10.6 | 16.3 | 6 |
36 | Ralf Schumacher | 11 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8.6 | 10.2 | 21 |
37 | Martin Brundle | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12.9 | 11.7 | 12 |
38 | Felipe Massa | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9.5 | 11.1 | 66 |
39 | Lando Norris | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 6.5 | 33 |
40 | Vitaly Petrov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14.3 | 13.7 | 15 |
41 | George Russell | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | 13.5 | 15 |
42 | Jarno Trulli | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10.4 | 11.5 | 12 |
43 | Riccardo Patrese | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8.2 | 8.9 | 9 |
44 | Stefan Johansson | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14.3 | 8.0 | 6 |
45 | Philippe Streiff | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15.5 | 11.0 | 6 |
46 | Gianni Morbidelli | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15.6 | 13.4 | 4.5 |
47 | Daniel Ricciardo | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10.1 | 11.8 | 42 |
48 | Nico Hülkenberg | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.0 | 10.5 | 40 |
49 | Mark Webber | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7.4 | 10.8 | 38 |
50 | Lance Stroll | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.8 | 10.2 | 22 |
51 | Oscar Piastri | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.5 | 6.0 | 16 |
52 | Felipe Nasr | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.0 | 10.0 | 10 |
53 | Romain Grosjean | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.9 | 15.0 | 9 |
54 | Kamui Kobayashi | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 18.0 | 8 |
55 | Adrian Sutil | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.6 | 12.4 | 8 |
56 | Yuki Tsunoda | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.0 | 10.7 | 7 |
57 | Esteban Ocon | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.2 | 11.8 | 7 |
58 | Jean Alesi | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.7 | 13.3 | 7 |
59 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.7 | 12.3 | 6 |
60 | Sébastien Buemi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.7 | 12.0 | 6 |
61 | Paul di Resta | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.7 | 9.3 | 6 |
62 | Daniil Kvyat | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.7 | 9.3 | 5 |
63 | Timo Glock | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.2 | 11.6 | 5 |
64 | Jean-Eric Vergne | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.0 | 10.3 | 4 |
65 | Ivan Capelli | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.8 | 11.6 | 4 |
66 | Marcus Ericsson | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.8 | 15.8 | 4 |
67 | Heikki Kovalainen | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14.0 | 13.8 | 4 |
68 | Mika Salo | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.9 | 9.9 | 4 |
69 | Sébastien Bourdais | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 | 7.5 | 3 |
70 | Kazuki Nakajima | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 3 |
71 | Jonathan Palmer | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 12.3 | 3 |
72 | Mark Blundell | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 11.0 | 3 |
73 | Satoru Nakajima | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17.4 | 17.8 | 3 |
74 | Stoffel Vandoorne | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.5 | 11.0 | 2 |
75 | Christian Klien | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.7 | 12.3 | 2 |
76 | Zhou Guanyu | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.7 | 11.7 | 2 |
77 | Emanuele Pirro | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.7 | 8.7 | 2 |
78 | Pierre Gasly | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.8 | 12.8 | 2 |
79 | Johnny Dumfries | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.0 | 6.0 | 1 |
80 | Ricardo Zonta | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.5 | 7.5 | 1 |
81 | Pedro Lamy | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 14.0 | 1 |
82 | Pedro de la Rosa | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.0 | 11.5 | 1 |
83 | Alex Albon | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.3 | 13.5 | 1 |
84 | Roberto Moreno | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.8 | 11.5 | 1 |
85 | Nicola Larini | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.8 | 15.4 | 1 |
86 | Stefano Modena | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.0 | 11.8 | 1 |
87 | Pierluigi Martini | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 13.5 | 1 |
88 | Johnny Herbert | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.2 | 16.8 | 1 |
89 | Luciano Burti | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21.0 | 8.0 | 0 |
90 | Jérôme d'Ambrosio | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.0 | 14.0 | 0 |
91 | Hideki Noda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23.0 | 23.0 | 0 |
92 | Gianmaria Bruni | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 | 17.0 | 0 |
93 | Jean-Marc Gounon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.0 | 17.0 | 0 |
94 | Adrián Campos | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26.0 | 17.0 | 0 |
95 | Rio Haryanto | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.0 | 19.0 | 0 |
96 | Tarso Marques | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.0 | 20.0 | 0 |
97 | Nicholas Latifi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 | 16.0 | 0 |
98 | Justin Wilson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 16.0 | 0 |
99 | Taki Inoue | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 20.0 | 0 |
100 | Giedo van der Garde | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21.0 | 18.0 | 0 |
Team | GP | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Pod | Pole | FL | Avg Grid | Avg Pos | Points | |
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1 | Ferrari | 38 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 7 | 11 | 6.2 | 8.3 | 456.5 |
2 | McLaren | 38 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 6.6 | 8.6 | 363 |
3 | Williams | 38 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 8.2 | 10.6 | 189 |
4 | Mercedes | 13 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4.5 | 8.2 | 276 |
5 | Red Bull | 18 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6.7 | 9.4 | 227 |
6 | Renault | 15 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10.5 | 9.4 | 103 |
7 | Benetton | 16 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8.2 | 10.1 | 45.5 |
8 | Brawn | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 18 |
9 | Lotus F1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12.1 | 12.4 | 32 |
10 | Ligier | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16.7 | 11.8 | 21 |
11 | BMW Sauber | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | 10.4 | 21 |
12 | Jordan | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11.6 | 14.1 | 12 |
13 | Toyota | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12.1 | 11.1 | 19 |
14 | Aston Martin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10.8 | 8.7 | 39 |
15 | Team Lotus | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14.1 | 14.7 | 8 |
16 | Footwork | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16.3 | 13.2 | 4 |
17 | Force India | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 11.0 | 49 |
18 | Sauber | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.8 | 12.9 | 35 |
19 | Toro Rosso | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.4 | 12.0 | 29 |
20 | Haas | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.2 | 13.4 | 25 |
21 | Tyrrell | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.1 | 14.3 | 14 |
22 | Alfa Romeo | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.0 | 12.6 | 10 |
23 | BAR | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.6 | 11.0 | 7 |
24 | Racing Bulls | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 9.5 | 6 |
25 | Alpine | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.7 | 13.3 | 6 |
26 | Minardi | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.6 | 14.2 | 4 |
27 | AlphaTauri | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.8 | 12.3 | 3 |
28 | Jaguar | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.6 | 13.3 | 3 |
29 | Racing Point | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.3 | 14.3 | 2 |
30 | Honda | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11.5 | 13.8 | 2 |
31 | Stewart | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.2 | 14.2 | 2 |
32 | Prost | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.6 | 11.8 | 2 |
33 | Arrows | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 2 |
34 | AGS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.3 | 11.0 | 1 |
35 | March | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 | 12.4 | 1 |
36 | Lambo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 24.0 | 0 |
37 | Simtek | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25.0 | 19.0 | 0 |
38 | Midland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.5 | 13.0 | 0 |
39 | Euro Brun | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.5 | 20.0 | 0 |
40 | Spyker | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.5 | 19.5 | 0 |
41 | Onyx | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 | 10.0 | 0 |
42 | Toleman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.5 | 17.0 | 0 |
43 | Rial | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.0 | 8.0 | 0 |
44 | Leyton House | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.5 | 18.5 | 0 |
45 | Pacific | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.5 | 15.0 | 0 |
46 | Virgin Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.5 | 15.0 | 0 |
47 | Forti | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.5 | 12.0 | 0 |
48 | Lola | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 | 18.3 | 0 |
49 | HRT | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21.5 | 17.0 | 0 |
50 | Zakspeed | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.0 | 14.8 | 0 |
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