Round 1 · 2026
Australian Grand Prix Practice Results
Free practice classification, fastest laps, and gaps to the session leader.
Practice sets the reference for the weekend, but it is the weakest of the three signals. Teams run different fuel loads and tyre compounds in every session, so a headline lap time says as much about when a driver ran as how quick the car is. Read the lap counts above alongside the order, then check the qualifying and race results to see how much of it carried over.
The circuit
Albert Park Circuit
Melbourne, Australia
Albert Park is a parkland circuit that spends most of the year as public road around a lake in Melbourne. Resurfacing and a set of faster corners have moved it a long way from the stop-start layout it used to be, and it now rewards a car that can carry speed through medium-fast direction changes.
What the lap demands, and how it races