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Key facts
- Location
- Spielberg, Styria , Austria
- Capacity
- 105,000
- Fia grade
- 1 (Grand Prix) 2 (Motorcycle & Südschleife)
- Owner
- Dietrich Mateschitz Beteiligungs GmbH (2004–present)
- Operator
- Projekt Spielberg GmbH & Co KG (2011–present)
- Opened
- 26 July 1969 ; 56 years ago ( 1969-07-26 ) Re-opened: 15 May 2011 ; , 15 years ago ( 2011-05-15 )
- Closed
- 2004 ; 22 years ago ( 2004 )
- Former names
- A1-Ring (1996–2004) Steiermark Österreichring (1986–1995) Österreichring (1969–1985)
- Website
- (in German) (in English)
- Length
- 4.326 km (2.688 mi)
- Race lap record
- 1:07.924 ( Oscar Piastri , McLaren MCL39 , 2025 , F1 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- motorsport racing track
- Named after
- Red Bull GmbH
- Official name
- Österreichring
- Country
- Austria
- Located in
- Spielberg
- Sport
- auto racing
- Official website
- www.projekt-spielberg.com/en/the-spielberg/red-bull-ring
- Image
- United Autosports ELMS Red Bull Ring 2017-218.jpg
- Length
- 4318
- Significant event
- Austrian Grand Prix
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- Commons category
- Red Bull Ring
- used by
- Formula One
- short name
- Red Bull Ring
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 25
- pseudonym
- Spielberg circuit
- date of official opening
- 2011-00-00
- date of official closure
- 2004-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Red Bull Ring is a 4.326 km (2.688 mi) motorsport race track in Spielberg, Styria, Austria. The race circuit was founded as Österreichring (transl. Austrian Circuit) and hosted the Austrian Grand Prix for 18 consecutive years, from 1970 to 1987. It was later shortened, rebuilt and renamed the A1-Ring (German: A Eins-Ring), and it hosted the Austrian Grand Prix again from 1997 to 2003.
When Formula One outgrew the circuit, a plan was drawn up to extend the layout. Parts of the circuit, including the pits and main grandstand, were demolished, but construction work was stopped and the circuit remained unusable for several years before it was purchased by Red Bull's Dietrich Mateschitz and rebuilt. Renamed the Red Bull Ring, the track was reopened on 15 May 2011, and subsequently hosted a round of the 2011 DTM season and a round of the 2011 F2 championship. Formula One returned to the circuit in the 2014 season, and MotoGP returned to the circuit in the 2016 season. The Red Bull Ring also hosted a second F1 event named the Styrian Grand Prix in 2020 and 2021; and a second MotoGP event named the Styrian motorcycle Grand Prix in 2020 and 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic affected the schedules of both of those seasons.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Red Bull Ring” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.