Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One™ Team - Australian GP preview, timetable 29.03.2023: Australian Grand Prix Albert Park, Melbourne 31 March - April 2nd 2023 Insight and Speed with Cognizant • Overtaking: A fourth DRS zone, which was scrapped during the 2022 event, should aid overtaking opportunities down to Turn Nine. Histo

Australian Grand Prix
Albert Park, Melbourne
31 March - April 2nd 2023




Insight and Speed with Cognizant


•    Overtaking: A fourth DRS zone, which was scrapped during the 2022 event, should aid overtaking opportunities down to Turn Nine. Historically, this has been a difficult circuit to pass on. Turns One, Three and 11, the last of which was tightened for 2022, are the best opportunities for overtaking.
 


•    Safety Cars: Despite lacking the close walls of most street circuits, grass and gravel are both ready to catch drivers out in an instant.  Last year's race featured two Safety Cars and a Virtual Safety Car, and the Safety Car has made an appearance in three of the past five dry Australian Grands Prix.
 


•    Strategy: The combination of C2, C3 and C4 tyres is the same as that available in Jeddah last time out. The C5 was the softest compound used here last year so the C4 Soft tyre should be a more viable race tyre for this year. In 2022, the preferred race strategy was a one-stop, Medium-Hard strategy.






Timetable




Session    BST    Local Time


Free Practice One    02:30 – 03:30    12:30 – 13:30

Free Practice Two    06:00 – 07:00    16:00 – 17:00

Free Practice Three    02:30 – 03:30    12:30 – 13:30

Qualifying    06:00 – 07:00    16:00 – 17:00

Grand Prix    06:00 – 08:00    15:00 – 17:00




Will Hings- photos Aston Martin