1 | This is the 38th World Championship Austrian Grand Prix. The race was introduced to the calendar in 1964 and run on a temporary circuit at Zeltweg Airfield. It returned in 1970 at the newly-constructed Österreichring, a few kilometres from Zeltweg. The race was ever-present at the Österreichring until 1987. It returned on a shortened version of the track, renamed the A1-Ring, in 1997 and was used until 2003. It returned in 2014 with the track now called the Red Bull Ring – but functionally unchanged from the A1-Ring layout. Fernando is the only driver on the current grid to have raced at the circuit before it was renamed.
2 | In addition to the Austrian Grand Prix, the Red Bull Ring also hosted the Styrian Grand Prix in 2020 and 2021 due to the global pandemic, which was run on consecutive weekends with the Austrian Grand Prix. In 2021, the Styrian Grand Prix preceded the Austrian Grand Prix, but in 2020 it followed – making the Austrian Grand Prix on 5 July, the latest opening race of an F1 season.
3 | The 2023 Austrian Grand Prix saw F1's first experience with its low carbon energy solution for the paddock. A combination of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), solar panels, and battery energy storage systems (BESS), removing the requirement for the 10 F1 teams, the FIA and F1's own operation to use their own generators.
4 | The 2019 Austrian Grand Prix was Lance's 50th race start… and Kimi Räikkönen's 300th.
5 | Lance won twice at the Red Bull Ring during his title-winning European F3 campaign in 2016, the season before making is F1 debut.
7 | Fernando has scored points in six of his last seven starts at the Red Bull Ring. Ironically, he set the fastest lap in his only non-scoring race during that run (2024).
8 | Austrian drivers – or those with an Austrian licence – tend to have their F1 debut in Austria. There are World Champions Jochen Rindt (1964) and Niki Lauda (1971), joined by, among others, Helmut Marko (1971) and Gerhard Berger (1984).
9 | The Red Bull Ring has a longer lap than Monaco, Zandvoort, Interlagos and the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, but the amount of the lap taken at full throttle means it has the shortest lap-time on the current calendar, with the ultimate record being Valterri Bottas' lap of 1m02.939s during Q3 in 2020. (Bottas holds the record of 0:53.377 for the all-time shortest lap-time, set on the Outer Circuit of the Bahrain International Circuit for the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix).