2021 Austrian Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres

In the fight for victory end it didn’t matter whether Max Verstappen did one stop or two in the battle for victory in the Austrian Grand Prix, but timing still played a part.

The top four finishers started the race all looking like they would only need one stop to complete the 71-lap distance, but only two of them did and neither of them were the race winner.

Simply, the attractiveness of the one-stop strategy over such a short lap is that it would reduce the time spent in traffic after a pit stop. However for those at the front, only doing one stop would risk spending more time behind cars to be lapped. Undercutting would reduce time spent in lapped traffic, but more likely lose track position, while overcutting wouldn’t have a pace advantage if you encountered backmarkers before your stop.

However for Red Bull’s Max Verstappen it all didn’t matter as he had such a pace advantage over the chasing Mercedes drivers and McLaren’s Lando Norris that he was able to make his first stop without losing the lead and then build up such a lead that he had a ‘free’ second stop that slashed his lead but gave him a fresher set of tyres to go for the fastest lap point at the end of the race.

Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas and Norris had their own space on track to react to that with their own second stops, and therefore deny Verstappen an extra point, but chose not to as they finished second and third.

The strategic element counted for more further back, with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jnr taking his starting set of C3 tyres to the end of lap 48 and then ending the race on the faster C4 compound. Taking that tyre on low fuel helped him finish fifth (ahead of a penalised Sergio Perez) from 10th on the grid and be bettered by only Verstappen when it came to fastest race laps.

Less than four seconds, but four positions, behind Sainz was AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly. He started on the softest C5 tyre and was committed to the two-stop strategy from the off, but traffic proved costly in a car that was quick enough to finish further up. You can look at the gaps he had to overcome, as well as how the battle at the front played out, below.

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2021 Austrian Grand Prix lap chart

The positions of each driver on every lap. Click name to highlight, right-click to reset. Toggle drivers using controls below:

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2021 Austrian Grand Prix race chart

The gaps between each driver on every lap compared to the leader’s average lap time. Very large gaps omitted. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan and right-click to reset. Toggle drivers using controls below:

Position change

Driver	Start position	Lap one position change	Race position change
Lewis Hamilton	4	0	0
Valtteri Bottas	5	0	3
Max Verstappen	1	0	0
Sergio Perez	3	0	-2
Lando Norris	2	0	-1
Daniel Ricciardo	13	2	6
Lance Stroll	9	1	-4
Sebastian Vettel	11	2	-6
Esteban Ocon	17
Fernando Alonso	14	-2	4
Charles Leclerc	12	2	4
Carlos Sainz Jnr	10	-4	4
Pierre Gasly	6	0	-3
Yuki Tsunoda	7	0	-5
Kimi Raikkonen	16	1	0
Antonio Giovinazzi	15	3	1
Mick Schumacher	19	2	1
Nikita Mazepin	20	1	1
George Russell	8	-5	-3
Nicholas Latifi	18	0	3

2021 Austrian Grand Prix lap times

All the lap times by the drivers (in seconds, very slow laps excluded). Scroll to zoom, drag to pan and toggle drivers using the control below:

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2021 Austrian Grand Prix fastest laps

Each driver’s fastest lap:

Rank	Driver	Car	Fastest lap	Gap	On lap
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-Honda	1’06.200		62
2	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Ferrari	1’07.762	1.562	70
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1’08.126	1.926	55
4	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri-Honda	1’08.146	1.946	54
5	Sergio Perez	Red Bull-Honda	1’08.192	1.992	55
6	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1’08.374	2.174	52
7	Fernando Alonso	Alpine-Renault	1’08.405	2.205	70
8	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin-Mercedes	1’08.420	2.220	51
9	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri-Honda	1’08.455	2.255	54
10	Lando Norris	McLaren-Mercedes	1’08.471	2.271	62
11	Kimi Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1’08.520	2.320	62
12	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin-Mercedes	1’08.659	2.459	54
13	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1’08.698	2.498	55
14	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren-Mercedes	1’08.820	2.620	56
15	Nicholas Latifi	Williams-Mercedes	1’08.874	2.674	69
16	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	1’08.900	2.700	56
17	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1’09.042	2.842	55
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas-Ferrari	1’09.394	3.194	56
19	Nikita Mazepin	Haas-Ferrari	1’09.757	3.557	49
20	Esteban Ocon	Alpine-Renault

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2021 Austrian Grand Prix tyre strategies

The tyre strategies for each driver:

	Stint 1	Stint 2	Stint 3
Max Verstappen	C4 (32)	C3 (28)	C3 (11)
Valtteri Bottas	C4 (30)	C3 (41)
Lando Norris	C4 (30)	C3 (41)
Lewis Hamilton	C4 (31)	C3 (22)	C3 (18)
Sergio Perez	C4 (32)	C3 (39)
Carlos Sainz Jnr	C3 (48)	C4 (23)
Daniel Ricciardo	C4 (29)	C3 (42)
Charles Leclerc	C4 (34)	C3 (37)
Pierre Gasly	C5 (13)	C3 (32)	C3 (26)
Fernando Alonso	C4 (32)	C3 (38)
George Russell	C4 (30)	C3 (40)
Yuki Tsunoda	C5 (12)	C3 (39)	C3 (19)
Lance Stroll	C5 (14)	C3 (32)	C3 (24)
Antonio Giovinazzi	C4 (1)	C3 (28)	C3 (41)
Nicholas Latifi	C4 (33)	C3 (37)
Kimi Raikkonen	C3 (37)	C4 (33)
Sebastian Vettel	C5 (17)	C3 (32)	C3 (20)
Mick Schumacher	C4 (34)	C3 (35)
Nikita Mazepin	C4 (27)	C3 (18)	C3 (24)

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2021 Austrian Grand Prix pit stop times

How long each driver’s pit stops took:

	Driver	Team	Pit stop time	Gap	On lap
1	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	20.841		49
2	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	20.850	0.009	45
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	21.005	0.164	31
4	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	21.071	0.230	30
5	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	21.086	0.245	17
6	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	21.090	0.249	32
7	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	21.129	0.288	1
8	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	21.143	0.302	34
9	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	21.145	0.304	12
10	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	21.151	0.310	29
11	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	21.152	0.311	33
12	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	21.236	0.395	60
13	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	21.391	0.550	14
14	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	21.421	0.580	53
15	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Ferrari	21.431	0.590	48
16	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	21.472	0.631	46
17	George Russell	Williams	21.606	0.765	30
18	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	21.735	0.894	32
19	Mick Schumacher	Haas	21.798	0.957	34
20	Kimi Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo	21.896	1.055	37
21	Nikita Mazepin	Haas	22.000	1.159	27
22	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	22.564	1.723	13
23	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	22.663	1.822	32
24	Nikita Mazepin	Haas	23.182	2.341	45
25	Lando Norris	McLaren	26.474	5.633	30
26	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	26.604	5.763	51
27	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	27.122	6.281	29

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