Race 3 of 22[a] in the 2022 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Albert Park Circuit
Race details
Date
10 April 2022
Official name
Formula 1 Heineken Australian Grand Prix 2022
Location
Albert Park Circuit, Melbourne, Australia
Course
Temporary street circuit
Course length
5.278 km (3.280 miles)
Distance
58 laps, 306.124 km (190.217 miles)
Weather
Partly cloudy
Attendance
419,114[2]
Pole position
Driver
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
Time
1:17.868
Fastest lap
Driver
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
Time
1:20.260 on lap 58
Podium
First
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
Second
Sergio Pérez
Red Bull Racing-RBPT
Third
George Russell
Mercedes
Lap leaders
Motor car race
The 2022 Australian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Heineken Australian Grand Prix 2022) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 10 April 2022 in Melbourne, Victoria. It was contested at the Albert Park Circuit and was the third round of the 2022 Formula One World Championship.[3] Ferrari's Charles Leclerc scored his first career grand slam, having started in pole position, set the fastest lap, led every lap, and won the race ahead of Red Bull's Sergio Pérez and Mercedes's George Russell. It was the first grand slam for a Ferrari driver since Fernando Alonso's at the 2010 Singapore Grand Prix.[4][b]
It was the 85th race in the combined history of the Australian Grand Prix, which dates back to the 100 Miles Road Race of 1928, as well as the 25th time the event had been held at the Albert Park circuit and the 36th time the Australian Grand Prix has been a part of the Formula One World Championship.[6] It was the first Australian Grand Prix since 2019, with the 2020 edition having been cancelled hours before the first practice session was due to begin amid the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2021 edition was first postponed and later cancelled due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.[7][8] Valtteri Bottas was the defending race winner, having won the 2019 edition with Mercedes.[9][10] The 2022 edition set a then-new attendance record at the circuit for the weekend with 419,144 attending it, making it the most attended sporting event ever in Melbourne until it was broken the following year.[11][12]
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