The fearsome, original Osterreichring was originated in 1969 as a replacement for the Zeltweg airfield circuit. The track known today as the Red Bull Ring was more or less created over the winter of 1995-6, when Hermann Tilke was engaged to turn the Osterreichring into a shorter, more modern race track.
The A1-Ring, as it was then called, was opened in 1996, with Formula 1 arriving at the circuit a year later. Jacques Villeneuve won the race, while Jean Alesi had a spectacular crash when his Benetton climbed up the Ferrari of Eddie Irvine. Jean Alesi’s team mate Gerhard Berger, meanwhile, used his home Grand Prix to announce his Formula 1 retirement.
Visit ScuderiaFans to get up-to-the-minutes for the latest results, timings, news and info from the Red Bull Ring, as the first practice session for the 2022 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix is about to start. Scuderia Ferrari drivers Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc will hit the track behind the wheel of the F1-75 challenger, with the target of evaluating tyre management and identifying the ideal set-up in this only free practice session ahead of the qualifying session which takes place later today in Spielberg.
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