2014 Austrian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 8 of 19 in the 2014 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Red Bull Ring
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| Date | 22 June 2014 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Grosser Preis Von Österreich 2014 | ||
| Location |
Red Bull Ring Spielberg, Styria, Austria |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.326 km (2.684 mi) | ||
| Distance | 71 laps, 307.146 km (190.564 mi) | ||
| Weather | Partially cloudy, hot and dry | ||
| Attendance | 77,702 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:08.759 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Sergio Pérez
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Force India-Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:12.142 on lap 59 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Williams-Mercedes | ||
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The 2014 Austrian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Grosser Preis Von Österreich 2014) was a Formula One motor race held on 22 June 2014 at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. It was the eighth round of the 2014 season and the 28th Austrian Grand Prix and the first to be held since 2003. The 71-lap race was won by Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg after starting from third position. His teammate Lewis Hamilton finished second with Valtteri Bottas third for the Williams team.
Felipe Massa started the race from pole position, his first since the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix. Massa had one previous participition in an Austrian Grand Prix, back in 2002, while from the last Austrian Grand Prix to be held before 2014, which was in 2003, only three drivers (Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, and Jenson Button) returned to drive in the 2014 Austrian Grand Prix.
The Grand Prix was contested by eleven teams, each of two drivers. The teams, also known as constructors, were Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari, Lotus, McLaren, Force India, Sauber, Toro Rosso, Williams, Marussia and Caterham.Tyre supplier Pirelli brought four different tyre compounds for the race; two dry compounds, the soft "primes" and the supersoft "options", and two wet-weather compounds, the intermediate and full wet. The drag reduction system (DRS) had two activation zones for the race; one was on the start/finish straight from the final to first corners, and the second on the straight between turns 2 and 3.
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