Round 15 · 2021

Russian Grand Prix

Sochi, Russia24–26 Sept

Practice 1
Fri 08:30
Data published
track 30° ·air 19° ·48% hum ·2.7 km/h windwet
Practice 2
Fri 12:00
Data published
track 32° ·air 19° ·50% hum ·2.9 km/h wind
Practice 3
Sat 09:00
Data due shortly
Qualifying
Sat 12:00
Data published
track 16° ·air 14° ·78% hum ·1.8 km/h windwet
Fantasy lock
Grand Prix
Sun 12:00
Data published
track 22° ·air 19° ·61% hum ·1.1 km/h windwet

Times in UTC

Grand Prix result

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Moved	Time / gap	Pts
1	HAM	Mercedes	4	3	1:30:41.001	25
2	VER	Red Bull Racing	20	18	+53.271	18
3	SAI	Ferrari	2	1	+62.475	15
4	RIC	McLaren	5	1	+65.607	12
5	BOT	Mercedes	16	11	+67.533	10
6	ALO	Alpine	6	—	+81.321	8
7	NOR	McLaren	1	6	+87.224	7
8	RAI	Alfa Romeo Racing	13	5	+88.955	4
9	PER	Red Bull Racing	8	1	+90.076	2
10	RUS	Williams	3	7	+100.551	1
11	STR	Aston Martin	7	4	+106.198
12	VET	Aston Martin	10	2	+1 Lap
13	GAS	AlphaTauri	11	2	+1 Lap
14	OCO	Alpine	9	5	+1 Lap
15	LEC	Ferrari	19	4	+1 Lap
16	GIO	Alfa Romeo Racing	17	1	+1 Lap
17	TSU	AlphaTauri	12	5	+1 Lap
18	MAZ	Haas F1 Team	15	3	+2 Laps
19	LAT	Williams	18	1	Accident
20	MSC	Haas F1 Team	14	6	Oil leak

Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap to pole
1	NOR	1:47.238	1:45.827	1:41.993
2	SAI	1:47.924	1:46.521	1:42.510	+0.517
3	RUS	1:48.303	1:46.435	1:42.983	+0.990
4	HAM	1:45.992	1:45.129	1:44.050	+2.057
5	RIC	1:48.345	1:46.361	1:44.156	+2.163
6	ALO	1:47.877	1:45.514	1:44.204	+2.211
7	BOT	1:46.396	1:45.306	1:44.710	+2.717
8	STR	1:48.322	1:46.360	1:44.956	+2.963
9	PER	1:46.455	1:45.834	1:45.337	+3.344
10	OCO	1:48.099	1:46.070	1:45.865	+3.872
11	VET	1:47.205	1:46.573	—	+4.580
12	GAS	1:47.828	1:46.641	—	+4.648
13	TSU	1:48.854	1:46.751	—	+4.758
14	LAT	1:48.252	—	—	+6.259
15	LEC	1:48.470	—	—	+6.477
16	RAI	1:49.586	—	—	+7.593
17	MSC	1:49.830	—	—	+7.837
18	GIO	1:51.023	—	—	+9.030
19	MAZ	1:53.764	—	—	+11.771
20	VER	—	—	—

How the weekend has moved

Practice 11:34.427run 1:42.354

Practice 21:33.593−0.834run 1:41.293

Qualifying1:41.993+8.400

Grand Prix1:37.423−4.570run 1:42.063

Fastest lap of each session, the change from the session before, and the midfield's median fuel-corrected long run. Times normally tumble as the track rubbers in.

Sochi in earlier seasons

20211:33.593run 1:41.674

20191:32.733−0.860run 1:41.219

20181:33.067−0.526run 1:40.759

Fastest practice lap per season at this circuit. Layout changes, resurfacing and weather all move these numbers, so read them as context rather than a like-for-like comparison.

Practice 1

Fri 24 Sept, 08:30 UTCFastestBOT1:34.427

Single-lap pace

BOT1:34.427—25 laps

HAM1:34.638+0.21123 laps

VER1:34.654+0.22713 laps

LEC1:35.117+0.69022 laps

VET1:35.781+1.35423 laps

GAS1:35.794+1.36724 laps

SAI1:35.811+1.38425 laps

NOR1:35.959+1.53224 laps

PER1:36.188+1.76122 laps

ALO1:36.225+1.79821 laps

OCO1:36.236+1.80925 laps

STR1:36.522+2.09521 laps

GIO1:36.795+2.36823 laps

RIC1:36.877+2.45023 laps

RAI1:36.952+2.52520 laps

TSU1:37.794+3.36726 laps

RUS1:38.013+3.58623 laps

LAT1:38.155+3.72821 laps

MAZ1:38.586+4.15922 laps

MSC1:38.977+4.55023 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
ALO	H	5*	1:38.642	—	±1.049	—
TSU	H	5*	1:40.470	+1.828	±1.144	—
BOT	H	9	1:41.075	+2.433	±0.347	−0.050s
PER	S	5*	1:42.075	+3.433	±0.657	—
LEC	S	5*	1:42.124	+3.482	±1.177	—
RUS	H	6*	1:42.220	+3.578	±0.705	—
OCO	S	5*	1:42.354	+3.712	±0.848	—
STR	S	5*	1:42.598	+3.956	±1.050	—
RIC	S	6*	1:42.724	+4.082	±1.065	—
VET	S	7*	1:42.842	+4.200	±1.081	—
LAT	M	8	1:43.229	+4.587	±0.593	−0.101s
MAZ	M	7*	1:44.632	+5.990	±0.352	—
MSC	H	7*	1:44.860	+6.218	±0.742	—

Each driver's longest clean stint, using green-flag laps only. Cool-down laps go first (anything more than 7% slower than that stint's best), then laps sitting well above the stint's own trend — traffic and mistakes — and a stint is discarded entirely if what remains isn't one continuous run. Times are corrected for fuel burn at 60 ms per lap, measured from 2024 race stints rather than assumed. Runs under eight laps (marked *) get no degradation figure, because a trend through so few laps is noise. Teams don't publish fuel loads, and 15 kg is worth about 0.4s a lap, so read these as driver groupings rather than exact gaps, and compare runs on the same compound.

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
BOT	34.508	32.517	27.402	1:34.427	1:34.427	0.000
HAM	34.605	32.540	27.493	1:34.638	1:34.638	0.000
VER	34.747	32.439	27.468	1:34.654	1:34.654	0.000
LEC	34.892	32.588	27.637	1:35.117	1:35.117	0.000
VET	35.080	32.581	28.120	1:35.781	1:35.781	0.000
GAS	35.132	32.686	27.976	1:35.794	1:35.794	0.000
SAI	35.072	32.700	28.039	1:35.811	1:35.811	0.000
NOR	35.122	32.752	28.085	1:35.959	1:35.959	0.000
ALO	35.270	32.853	27.932	1:36.055	1:36.225	0.170
OCO	35.251	32.989	27.843	1:36.083	1:36.236	0.153
PER	35.252	32.969	27.967	1:36.188	1:36.188	0.000
STR	35.191	32.980	28.351	1:36.522	1:36.522	0.000
RAI	35.375	33.050	28.351	1:36.776	1:36.952	0.176
RIC	35.270	32.835	28.687	1:36.792	1:36.877	0.085
GIO	35.411	33.212	28.172	1:36.795	1:36.795	0.000
RUS	35.288	33.501	28.970	1:37.759	1:38.013	0.254
TSU	35.730	33.445	28.619	1:37.794	1:37.794	0.000
LAT	35.460	33.760	28.935	1:38.155	1:38.155	0.000
MAZ	35.783	33.592	29.185	1:38.560	1:38.586	0.026
MSC	35.680	33.920	29.371	1:38.971	1:38.977	0.006

Best sector times are usually set on different laps, so their sum — the ideal lap — is quicker than anyone's actual best. The last column is the time left out there. Purple marks the session's fastest sector.

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+1.383(6 drivers ran both)H+1.374(10 drivers ran both)

Measured within each driver — only drivers who set a representative time on both compounds count — then averaged, so this isn't distorted by who happened to run which tyre. A lap counts only if it is within 2% of that driver's own best of the session, which keeps genuine runs on a slower tyre while dropping in-laps and aborted runs that would otherwise masquerade as a compound's best. A compound fewer than three drivers tried is listed but not priced. Even so, these laps aren't all qualifying simulations, so read this as the order of the compounds rather than an exact price.

Team-mates, head to head

MercedesBOTahead of HAM+0.211

Red Bull RacingVERahead of PER+1.534

FerrariLECahead of SAI+0.694

Aston MartinVETahead of STR+0.741

AlphaTauriGASahead of TSU+2.000

McLarenNORahead of RIC+0.918

AlpineALOahead of OCO+0.011

Alfa Romeo RacingGIOahead of RAI+0.157

WilliamsRUSahead of LAT+0.142

Haas F1 TeamMAZahead of MSC+0.391

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

BOT733111

HAM733154

VER535

LEC7618

VET869

GAS76641

SAI113317

NOR93516

PER1057

ALO948

OCO1078

STR867

GIO9176

RIC10418

RAI10613

TSU1178

RUS61619

LAT5610

MAZ769

MSC869

SSoftMMediumHHard

Practice 2

Fri 24 Sept, 12:00 UTCFastestBOT1:33.593

Single-lap pace

BOT1:33.593—19 laps

HAM1:33.637+0.04422 laps

GAS1:33.845+0.25222 laps

NOR1:34.154+0.56117 laps

OCO1:34.402+0.80923 laps

VER1:34.621+1.02820 laps

SAI1:34.678+1.08522 laps

ALO1:34.762+1.16921 laps

VET1:34.837+1.24422 laps

LEC1:34.925+1.33224 laps

PER1:34.938+1.34522 laps

RAI1:35.052+1.45923 laps

RUS1:35.094+1.50119 laps

GIO1:35.178+1.58514 laps

STR1:35.334+1.74121 laps

LAT1:35.411+1.81819 laps

RIC1:35.630+2.03712 laps

TSU1:35.954+2.36123 laps

MAZ1:36.099+2.50619 laps

MSC1:36.230+2.63720 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
LEC	M	6*	1:40.537	—	±0.332	—
VER	M	6*	1:40.622	+0.085	±0.668	—
VET	H	5*	1:40.670	+0.133	±0.147	—
PER	M	5*	1:40.831	+0.294	±0.355	—
OCO	M	7*	1:41.119	+0.582	±0.255	—
GAS	M	7*	1:41.178	+0.641	±0.476	—
RUS	M	6*	1:41.249	+0.712	±0.312	—
RAI	M	6*	1:41.337	+0.800	±0.447	—
ALO	M	5*	1:41.446	+0.909	±1.155	—
STR	H	6*	1:41.591	+1.054	±0.576	—
LAT	H	7*	1:41.674	+1.137	±0.136	—
TSU	M	7*	1:42.217	+1.680	±0.474	—
MAZ	H	7*	1:43.181	+2.644	±0.273	—
MSC	M	7*	1:43.273	+2.736	±0.662	—

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
BOT	34.345	31.752	27.496	1:33.593	1:33.593	0.000
HAM	34.174	32.064	27.399	1:33.637	1:33.637	0.000
GAS	34.281	32.158	27.374	1:33.813	1:33.845	0.032
NOR	34.662	32.000	27.392	1:34.054	1:34.154	0.100
OCO	34.579	32.349	27.474	1:34.402	1:34.402	0.000
SAI	34.815	32.315	27.489	1:34.619	1:34.678	0.059
VER	34.779	32.424	27.418	1:34.621	1:34.621	0.000
ALO	34.830	32.525	27.351	1:34.706	1:34.762	0.056
PER	34.666	32.455	27.702	1:34.823	1:34.938	0.115
VET	34.982	32.364	27.491	1:34.837	1:34.837	0.000
LEC	34.865	32.427	27.633	1:34.925	1:34.925	0.000
RAI	34.776	32.563	27.638	1:34.977	1:35.052	0.075
GIO	34.768	32.427	27.824	1:35.019	1:35.178	0.159
RUS	34.584	32.685	27.825	1:35.094	1:35.094	0.000
STR	35.044	32.640	27.650	1:35.334	1:35.334	0.000
RIC	34.943	32.540	27.906	1:35.389	1:35.630	0.241
LAT	34.472	32.697	28.242	1:35.411	1:35.411	0.000
TSU	34.953	32.995	28.006	1:35.954	1:35.954	0.000
MSC	34.984	32.814	28.211	1:36.009	1:36.230	0.221
MAZ	35.060	32.959	28.080	1:36.099	1:36.099	0.000

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+1.233(8 drivers ran both)Honly 2 drivers ran both — too few to price

Team-mates, head to head

MercedesBOTahead of HAM+0.044

AlphaTauriGASahead of TSU+2.109

McLarenNORahead of RIC+1.476

AlpineOCOahead of ALO+0.360

Red Bull RacingVERahead of PER+0.317

FerrariSAIahead of LEC+0.247

Aston MartinVETahead of STR+0.497

Alfa Romeo RacingRAIahead of GIO+0.126

WilliamsRUSahead of LAT+0.317

Haas F1 TeamMAZahead of MSC+0.131

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

BOT53254

HAM63319

GAS5539

NOR65141

OCO55310

VER531110

SAI715144

ALO55218

VET55192

LEC711510

PER6511

RAI7538

RUS53119

GIO752

STR55182

LAT53110

RIC4332

TSU55310

MAZ5410

MSC5510

SSoftMMediumHHard

Practice 3

Sat 25 Sept, 09:00 UTCData is being processed

Data is being processed

Sat 25 Sept, 10:00 UTC