2015 Austrian Grand Prix
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| Race 8 of 19 in the 2015 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Red Bull Ring
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| Date | 21 June 2015 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Großer Preis von Österreich 2015 | ||
| 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 | Cloudy 14–15 °C (57–59 °F) air temperature 27–32 °C (81–90 °F) track temperature 2 m/s (6.6 ft/s) wind from the west |
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| Attendance | 55,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:08.455 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nico Rosberg
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Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:11.235 on lap 35 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Williams-Mercedes | ||
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The 2015 Austrian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Großer Preis von Österreich 2015) was a Formula One motor race held on 21 June 2015 at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. The race was the eighth round of the 2015 season, and marked the 29th running of the Austrian Grand Prix.
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg entered as the defending race winner, while his teammate, Lewis Hamilton, entered with a seventeen-point lead over him in the Drivers' Championship standings. Mercedes were leading rivals Ferrari by 105 points in the Constructors' standings.
Hamilton started from pole position, but was overtaken by Rosberg at the first corner. Rosberg held the lead for the remainder of the race, barring brief periods during pit stops, and won by over three seconds. Hamilton remained ahead of Williams driver Felipe Massa to claim the runner-up position. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel had been holding third position for much of the first half of the race, but a delay due to a stuck wheel nut during his pit stop dropped him into fourth place. Former World Champions Kimi Räikkönen and Fernando Alonso were eliminated on the first lap, after Räikkönen lost control of his Ferrari at the second turn and collided with Alonso. The two came to rest against the safety barrier, with Alonso's McLaren atop the Ferrari.
Having just nine turns, the fewest on the Formula One calendar, the circuit offers very few low-speed sections and gave teams an opportunity to push their power units to their potential. As in the previous year's event, and for the third straight event overall, the yellow-banded soft compound tyre were the prime dry selection while the red-banded supersoft compound were the option dry selection. Pirelli also supplied two wet weather compounds: the green-banded intermediate compound and the blue-banded full wet compound.
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