F1 | 2025 Austrian F1 Grand Prix Prix-View

June 21, 2025

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The hills will be alive with the sound of music, and by music we mean F1 car engines, roaring fans with their orange flares and planes roaring above in support of it all. Talking of music, our 2025 Austrian F1 Grand Prix Prix-View and no Danice Patrick is music to our ears.

The Gurgler’s 2025 Austrian F1 Grand Prix Prix-View brings some thoughts on the track and race itself, a more than a few barely interesting stats.

Essentially a quick summary of what a casual F1 fan needs in the shortest possible time for your convenience.

And for F1 opinion, stand by for the F1 Donkey’s Bold Predictions and Opinion.

2025 Austrian F1 Grand Prix Prix-view – Race Potential Rating

2025 Austrian F1 Grand Prix Preview - Circuit — By I, User:HumanBodyPiloter5, created this SVG map as a derivative work based on the satellite image of the Spielberg circuit released by w:en:Planet Labs under CC-BY-SA 4.0 in 2018 – Released under CC-BY-SA-4.0 by Planet Labs; image also available on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=107010885

F1 2023 - Fabi Preview Index Feature Image

The Gurgler does like to use some obscure drivers in our Race previews and report, so who better to use than Teo Fabi to determine a race rating system.

So before each race we give a rating out of ten for four key category that are loosely based on each letter of Teo Fabi’s surname. Don’t know who Teo Fabi is, you should.

FAST? 7 / 10 – It feels like an oversized go kart track, so probably seems faster than it really is, but there are some cool, fast corners, that sometimes split ambition and talent. Especially the last two.

ACTION? 9 / 10 – It’s a track where stuff usually happens. Last season saw a late race tangle between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris. Oscar Piastri would order one of those this season. Watch for qualifying where the really short lap will cause chaos.

BIG HISTORY? – 7 / 10 – The Austrian GP race event dates back to the 1970’s on a much larger, and stupidly faster circuit where the current one sits, but was dumped after the race had to be red flagged twice due to startline accidents. It also provided this author with their first memory of F1 when Andrea de Cesaris barrel-rolled his blue Ligier on one of the banks off the track. The race has had two stints at the current track, and has had its share of memorable moments.

INCLEMENT WEATHER? – 3 /10 The Weather Channel says there’s very little chance of rain but the temperatures look like they will be in the low 30’s, which could prove interesting for tyre wear, driver fatigue, and general grumpiness.

RACE POTENTIAL RATING 65% – It’s Monaco, and even if it is dull with no overtaking and a bore fest of fuel and tyre saving, it’s still Monaco.

2023 F1 Track Stats

2025 Austrian F1 Grand Prix Prix-view – Stats Summary

Want to know if your favourite driver for this weekend is a master of the track or the track is a master of them? Here then are some barely interesting facts and stats.

Stats include the Styrian GPs which doubled up due to Covid.

It’s five pole positions in a row for Max Verstappen.
The race has been won by a driver starting in 7th on the grid.
Pole sitter has won nine times and finished second five times, with three results outside the top two.
Every current driver has finished at least one race outside of the points or DNFd.
Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Lando Norris have never missed Q3 here.