Starting Grid 2020 Styrian Grand Prix

Start grid Styrian GP

Race Event: Styrian Grand Prix
Race Track: Red Bull Ring

Start time:15:10 local | 14:10 GMT | 07:10 PT

Hamilton will start from pole for the 89th time in his Formula 1 career. His last pole before today was in last race of last season in Abu Dhabi.

Start Grid 2020 Styrian F1 GP

*Notes:

• Lando Norris - Mclaren car 4, 3 places grid penalty for overtaking under yellow flags in FP2.
• Charles Leclerc - Ferrari car 16,  3 places grid penalty for Impeding another driver during qualifying.
• Antonio Giovinazzi - Alfa Romeo car 99, 5 places grid penalty for gearbox replacement
• Romain Grosjean - Haas car 8, has to start from pitlane, due to car modifications under Parc Férme conditions.

2020 Styrian Race Strategy

Tomorrow should be dry with temperatures lower than last week's Austrian Grand Prix. The fastest strategy for the 71-lap race is still expected to be a one-stopper, but with a slightly different look to last Sunday: where the soft tyre in particular proved to be very competitive. So the theoretically quickest way tomorrow is to start on the soft tyre for 28 to 33 laps and then complete the race on the hard compound.

The second-quickest strategy is to start on the medium tyre for 30 to 35 laps, then switch to the soft until the end. This strategy could be reversed as well, starting instead on the soft and finishing on the medium for the final stint.

Almost as quick is a one-stopper with a start on the medium tyre for 24 to 30 laps, then hard to the finish.

Finally, a two-stopper is definitely slower: two stints on the soft tyre for 24 to 26 laps each, then medium to the end.

2020 Styrian Race Notes

• Weather. Wet weather cancelled FP3 and then delayed the start of qualifying, with the Cinturato Blue full wets used by all the drivers from start to finish. Tomorrow's dry race means that the drivers will also have to rely on the data accumulated during Friday to formulate the strategy, as well as last week's race.
• Qualifying strategy. The drivers have three sets of full wet tyres for the entire weekend, so they had to judge the strategy carefully: with some reserving a new set for the final run in Q3.
• Cinturato Blue full wet. Many of the drivers completed long runs to take advantage of the rapidly-changing track conditions (with just 20 degrees of track temperature in Q3) and benefit from the consistency of the full wet tyre. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, there were very few mistakes seen.
• Race strategy. As qualifying was wet, the drivers have a free choice of slick tyres to start the race on tomorrow.
• Top speeds. Despite the torrential rain and low visibility, top speeds still peaked at nearly 300 km/h on the straight, with Hamilton's fastest lap averaging just under 200 km/h.

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