2024 Australian Grand Prix

2024 Australian Grand Prix
Race 3 of 24 in the 2024 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Albert Park Circuit
Layout of the Albert Park Circuit
Race details[1][2]
Date 24 March 2024
Official name Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix 2024
Location Albert Park Circuit
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Course Street Circuit
Course length 5.278 km (3.280 miles)
Distance 58 laps, 306.124 km (190.217 miles)
Weather Sunny
Attendance 452,055[3]
Pole position
Driver Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT
Time 1:15.915
Fastest lap
Driver Monaco Charles Leclerc Ferrari
Time 1:19.813 on lap 56 (lap record)
Podium
First Ferrari
Second Ferrari
Third McLaren-Mercedes
Lap leaders

The 2024 Australian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix 2024) was a Formula One motor race held on 24 March 2024 at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria. It was the third round of the 2024 Formula One World Championship.

After qualifying second, Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr. won the race, two weeks after undergoing an appendectomy that caused him to miss the preceding Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Pole-sitter Max Verstappen retired on lap four, breaking his streak of nine consecutive wins. Sainz's teammate, Charles Leclerc, followed in second for Ferrari's first 1–2 finish since the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix. Lando Norris finished third, surpassing Nick Heidfeld's record for the most podiums without a win in Formula One at fourteen; Norris would hold this record until he won his first race three Grands Prix later, at the Miami Grand Prix, thereby handing the record back to Heidfeld. The event sold out for the first time in its history and set a new attendance record at the circuit for the weekend.

  1. ^ "Australian Grand Prix – F1 Race". Formula 1. Archived from the original on 12 March 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Australian Grand Prix – F1 Race – Circuit Details". Formula 1. Archived from the original on 2 March 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  3. ^ "New Attendance Record For Australian Grand Prix At Albert Park". Raceweek.com. 24 March 2024. Retrieved 24 March 2024.