2026 Australian Grand Prix - Melbourne, March 06 - 08

[MtthsMlw]

Tyre selection
C3 - C4 - C5

2025 Results
Qualifying


Race




2025 Pole Lap
2025 Race Highlights
Schedule and more information

[hollus]

Awesome!

I want to lay alternative markers for immature cars at the beginning of the last regulation cycle. In 2022 Malbourne was the 3rd race, so the cars were a bit less green, but 1st race, 3rd race... same same enough.

Pole lap in 2022: 1:17:868 by Leclerc.
Fastest lap in the race: 1:20:268 by Leclerc.

In my opinion, Melbourne 2025 should be compared to Melbourne 2029 or at least 2028, after everyone has had 2 cycles of re-designing their cars including the successful tricks from the other teams.

[f1isgood]

These new cars have a big drag advantage on the straights because of the active aero and because they dont have a significant drag penalty early in the regulations. The laptimes might look better than they really are but might not improve as much through the course of the regulations.

[DDopey]

For those with Apple Maps. As apple now has the broadcasting rights to F1 in the US they are putting some effort into it, they are going to enhance all the F1 circuits in the world with a 3D view. Starting with Albert Park, you do need the app to see the 3d view, street view does work in the browser. : https://maps.apple.com/place?place-id=I ... vider=9902

They also released a circuit guide: https://maps.apple.com/guides?curated=1 ... vider=9902

[AR3-GP]

[Wouter]

https://i.postimg.cc/rwY0ZdkC/image.png

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Fahrenheit is only used in the USA. This forum has members from all over the world, so it is helpful to include Celsius as well.

Countries that use Celsius (°C)
Almost the rest of the world uses Celsius. This includes:

Europe (including the UK, although the British media sometimes uses Fahrenheit during extreme heat to make it sound “warmer”).
Asia
Africa
Australia
South America



- 6 Mar Friday
Mostly sunny
23°C

- 7 Mar Saturday
Mostly cloudy
22°C

- 8 Mar Sunday
Mostly cloudy
24°C
60% rain

[PlatinumZealot]

It's rawe ceek!

[erudite450]

It's rawe ceek!

Yes, PZ!!!

[langedweil]

Finally ... very curious

[basti313]

Yep. I strongly hope this weekend is better than the IndyCar opener in terms of mixing the pot.

[Wouter]

Now that the airspace over the UAE is closed and the whole F1 circus is always flying from Dubai to Australia,
I wonder which route they're taking and whether everything will be there in time.
The Ferrari crew was already on its way, but is stuck in Qatar. A new crew has been assembled.
Everyone who was in Bahrain for the Pirelli tire test—team members, drivers, and Pirelli staff—is still stuck there.
Some of them also need to get to Australia, which is no longer possible this week.

[basti313]

Now that the airspace over the UAE is closed and the whole F1 circus is always flying from Dubai to Australia,
I wonder which route they're taking and whether everything will be there in time.

If you look at Flightradar, the airspace north of Iran and through Saudi is super busy. I do not see big issues. There will be delays of course, but nothing crucial to expect.

The Ferrari crew was already on its way, but is stuck in Qatar. A new crew has been assembled.
Everyone who was in Bahrain for the Pirelli tire test—team members, drivers, and Pirelli staff—is still stuck there.
Some of them also need to get to Australia, which is no longer possible this week.

Everyone crucial can get out through Muscat or Riyadh. Just a matter of cost.
For anyone else it would be super difficult to enter Saudi without Visa at this point. But for crucial F1 personell, this is just a phone call to the right people.

[SharkY]

Everyone crucial can get out through Muscat or Riyadh. Just a matter of cost.
For anyone else it would be super difficult to enter Saudi without Visa at this point. But for crucial F1 personell, this is just a phone call to the right people.

Given that we have a Saudi GP in 1,5 months, I'd presume that most of the personnel already has the Saudi Visa solved.

[CouncilorIrissa]

The Ferrari crew was already on its way, but is stuck in Qatar. A new crew has been assembled.

Not true.
https://x.com/matcoch/status/2028221295553638524

[basti313]

Everyone crucial can get out through Muscat or Riyadh. Just a matter of cost.
For anyone else it would be super difficult to enter Saudi without Visa at this point. But for crucial F1 personell, this is just a phone call to the right people.

Given that we have a Saudi GP in 1,5 months, I'd presume that most of the personnel already has the Saudi Visa solved.

I fear this would not help...F1 is using event visa, which have a very limited duration, like you can enter maybe 10 days before the event. Not a regular visa with 90 days duration in Saudi.
But as mentioned...it is a kingdom. If there is a problem, you call the king (in case you are FIA ) and problems disappear. Not saying that the lost Ferrari crew just disappeared