2024 Australian Grand Prix

2024 Australian Grand Prix
Race 3 of 24 in the 2024 Formula One World Championship ← Previous race Next race →
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	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT
Time	1:15.915
Fastest lap
Driver	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari
Time	1:19.813 on lap 56 (lap record)
Podium
First	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Ferrari
Second	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari
Third	Lando Norris	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.