| Type: | F1 |
| Country: | Austria |
| Grand Prix: | Austrian |
| Previous Round: | 2018 French Grand Prix |
| Next Round: | 2018 British Grand Prix |
| Date: | 1 July |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Official Name: | Formula 1 Eyetime Grosser Preis von Österreich 2018 |
| Details Ref: | [1] |
| Race No: | 9 |
| Season No: | 21 |
| Location: | Red Bull Ring Spielberg, Styria, Austria |
| Course: | Permanent racing facility |
| Course Mi: | 2.683 |
| Course Km: | 4.318 |
| Distance Laps: | 71 |
| Distance Mi: | 190.420 |
| Distance Km: | 306.452 |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Pole Driver: | Valtteri Bottas |
| Pole Team: | Mercedes |
| Pole Time: | 1:03.130 |
| Pole Country: | FIN |
| Fast Team: | Ferrari |
| Fast Time: | 1:06.957 |
| Fast Lap: | 71 |
| Second Driver: | Kimi Räikkönen |
| Second Team: | Ferrari |
| Second Country: | FIN |
| Third Team: | Ferrari |
The 2018 Austrian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Eyetime Grosser Preis von Österreich 2018) was a Formula One motor race held on 1 July 2018 at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. The race was the 9th round of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship, and marked the 32nd running of the Austrian Grand Prix and the 31st time it had been held as a round of the Formula One World Championship since the series inception in .
The race was won by Max Verstappen, driving for Red Bull, marking the first time that Red Bull has won at their home Grand Prix.
The circuit included three drag reduction system (DRS) zones for the first time. These included a zone along the main straight, with the second zone on the straight from turn 1 to turns 2 and 3, and a third zone extending from turn 3 to turn 4.[2] Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 14-point lead over Sebastian Vettel in the Drivers' Championship. In the Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a 23-point lead over Ferrari.
In Q2, Carlos Sainz had to avoid Vettel, who was going slowly on the racing line. Vettel was later awarded a 3-place grid penalty for the incident. Mercedes locked out the front row in Q3 and Valtteri Bottas took his first pole of 2018. The Ferraris locked out the second row. Romain Grosjean outqualified Daniel Ricciardo to take P6.
Bottas had a poor start from pole position. Initially passed by Hamilton, Räikkönen and Verstappen, he reclaimed P2 overtaking Verstappen and Räikkönen around the outside of Turn 4. Shortly after Verstappen overtook Räikkönen for P3. Stoffel Vandoorne broke his front wing at Turn 3, requiring a pitstop, dropping him to the back of the field. On lap 12, Nico Hülkenberg's engine failed on the start/finish straight, causing his immediate retirement from the race. On lap 14, Bottas retired with a gearbox failure which was originally caused by hydraulic problems, causing a Virtual Safety Car. During the VSC period, Ferrari and Red Bull pitted both their cars. Mercedes however, chose not to pit Hamilton, an error for which James Vowles, Mercedes' chief strategist, was heard to apologize via team radio. Hamilton pitted on lap 25, ceding the lead to Verstappen, and rejoined in P4, ahead of Vettel, who overtook him on lap 39. On lap 54 Ricciardo retired with an exhaust problem and then Brendon Hartley retired on the next lap with a hydraulics issue. Hamilton retired on lap 64 with a fuel pressure problem, giving Mercedes only their third double retirement since returning to F1 as a constructor in 2010 (after Australia 2011 and Spain 2016), their first double retirement due to mechanical failures, and Hamilton's first non-finish since the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix. Verstappen won the race, giving Red Bull their first win at the Red Bull Ring, and Verstappen his first win of the season. The Haas cars finished P4 and P5, giving them their best points finish ever and Grosjean his first points of the season.
| Driver | Constructor | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | ||||||
| 1 | 77 | data-sort-value="BOT" | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1:04.175 | 1:03.756 | 1:03.130 | 1 |
| 2 | 44 | data-sort-value="HAM" | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:04.080 | 1:03.577 | 1:03.149 | 2 |
| 3 | 5 | data-sort-value="VET" | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:04.347 | 1:03.544 | 1:03.464 | 6 |
| 4 | 7 | data-sort-value="RAI" | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:04.234 | 1:03.975 | 1:03.660 | 3 |
| 5 | 33 | data-sort-value="VER" | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 1:04.273 | 1:04.001 | 1:03.840 | 4 |
| 6 | 8 | data-sort-value="GRO" | Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 1:04.242 | 1:04.059 | 1:03.892 | 5 |
| 7 | 3 | data-sort-value="RIC" | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 1:04.723 | 1:04.403 | 1:03.996 | 7 |
| 8 | 20 | data-sort-value="MAG" | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 1:04.460 | 1:04.291 | 1:04.051 | 8 |
| 9 | 55 | data-sort-value="SAI" | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Renault | 1:04.948 | 1:04.561 | 1:04.725 | 9 |
| 10 | 27 | data-sort-value="HUL" | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 1:04.864 | 1:04.676 | 1:05.019 | 10 |
| 11 | 31 | data-sort-value="OCO" | Esteban Ocon | Force India-Mercedes | 1:05.148 | 1:04.845 | 11 | |
| 12 | 10 | data-sort-value="GAS" | Pierre Gasly | Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda | 1:05.011 | 1:04.874 | 12 | |
| 13 | 16 | data-sort-value="LEC" | Charles Leclerc | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:04.967 | 1:04.979 | 17 | |
| 14 | 14 | data-sort-value="ALO" | Fernando Alonso | McLaren-Renault | 1:04.965 | 1:05.058 | PL | |
| 15 | 18 | data-sort-value="STR" | Lance Stroll | Williams-Mercedes | 1:05.264 | 1:05.286 | 13 | |
| 16 | 2 | data-sort-value="VAN" | McLaren-Renault | 1:05.271 | 14 | |||
| 17 | 11 | data-sort-value="PER" | Sergio Pérez | Force India-Mercedes | 1:05.279 | 15 | ||
| 18 | 35 | data-sort-value="SIR" | Sergey Sirotkin | Williams-Mercedes | 1:05.322 | 16 | ||
| 19 | 28 | data-sort-value="HAR" | Brendon Hartley | 1:05.366 | 19 | |||
| 20 | 9 | data-sort-value="ERI" | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:05.479 | 18 | ||
| 107% time 1:08.565 | ||||||||
| Source:[3] | ||||||||
| Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 33 | data-sort-value="VER" | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 71 | 1:21:56.024 | 4 | 25 | |
| 2 | 7 | data-sort-value="RAI" |  Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 71 | +1.504 | 3 | 18 | |
| 3 | 5 | data-sort-value="VET" | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 71 | +3.181 | 6 | 15 | |
| 4 | 8 | data-sort-value="GRO" |  Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 70 | +1 lap | 5 | 12 | |
| 5 | 20 | data-sort-value="MAG" | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 70 | +1 lap | 8 | 10 | |
| 6 | 31 | data-sort-value="OCO" | Esteban Ocon | Force India-Mercedes | 70 | +1 lap | 11 | 8 | |
| 7 | 11 | data-sort-value="PER" |  Sergio Pérez | Force India-Mercedes | 70 | +1 lap | 15 | 6 | |
| 8 | 14 | data-sort-value="ALO" |  Fernando Alonso | McLaren-Renault | 70 | +1 lap | PL | 4 | |
| 9 | 16 | data-sort-value="LEC" | Charles Leclerc | Sauber-Ferrari | 70 | +1 lap | 17 | 2 | |
| 10 | 9 | data-sort-value="ERI" |  Marcus Ericsson | Sauber-Ferrari | 70 | +1 lap | 18 | 1 | |
| 11 | 10 | data-sort-value="GAS" | Pierre Gasly | Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda | 70 | +1 lap | 12 | ||
| 12 | 55 | data-sort-value="SAI" | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Renault | 70 | +1 lap | 9 | ||
| 13 | 35 | data-sort-value="SIR" | Sergey Sirotkin | Williams-Mercedes | 69 | +2 laps | 16 | ||
| 14 | 18 | data-sort-value="STR" | Lance Stroll | Williams-Mercedes | 69 | +2 laps | 13 | ||
| 15 | 2 | data-sort-value="VAN" | McLaren-Renault | 65 | 14 | ||||
| data-sort-value="16" | Ret | 44 | data-sort-value="HAM" | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 62 | Fuel pressure | 2 | |
| data-sort-value="17" | Ret | 28 | data-sort-value="HAR" | Brendon Hartley | 54 | Hydraulics | 19 | ||
| data-sort-value="18" | Ret | 3 | data-sort-value="RIC" | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 53 | Exhaust | 7 | |
| data-sort-value="19" | Ret | 77 | data-sort-value="BOT" | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 13 | Hydraulics | 1 | |
| data-sort-value="20" | Ret | 27 | data-sort-value="HUL" | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 11 | Engine | 10 | |
| Source:[4] | |||||||||
| Driver | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | data-sort-value="VET" | Sebastian Vettel | 146 |
| 1 | 2 | data-sort-value="HAM" | Lewis Hamilton | 145 |
| 2 | 3 | data-sort-value="RAI" | Kimi Räikkönen | 101 |
| 1 | 4 | data-sort-value="RIC" | Daniel Ricciardo | 96 |
| 1 | 5 | data-sort-value="VER" | Max Verstappen | 93 |
| Source:[5] | ||||
| Constructor | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  Ferrari | 247 | |
| 1 | 2 | Mercedes | 237 | |
| 3 |  Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 189 | ||
| 4 | Renault | 62 | ||
| 1 | 5 |  Haas-Ferrari | 49 | |
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