Osterreichring, Spielberg, Styria, Austria

Lap distance: 5.911 km (3.673 miles)
Number of laps: 50
Racing direction: Clockwise

Osterreichring, Austria circuit details

The old Osterreichring was a long, fast, flowing circuit. It ran the Austrian GP from 1970 to 1987 before it was refurbished as the A1 Ring.

1987

Race winner: Nigel Mansell Williams
Nigel Mansell won the final race on the old circuit after the race was restarted twice due to first lap accidents.

1986

Race winner: Alain Prost McLaren
Alain Prost won the race being a lap ahead of Michele Alboreto who was second in a Ferrari.

1985

Race winner: Alain Prost McLaren
Alain Prost won comfortably from Ayrton Senna in a Lotus.

1984

Race winner: Niki Lauda McLaren
Niki Lauda won from the Brabham of Nelson Piquet who had started on pole position.

1983

Race winner: Alain Prost Renault
Alain Prost won from Rene Arnoux in a Ferrari.

1982

Race winner: Elio de Angelis Lotus
Elio de Angelis won from Keke Rosberg by 0.05 seconds.

1981

Race winner: Jacques Laffite Ligier
Jacques Laffite won from the Renault of Rene Arnoux who had started on pole position.

1980

Race winner: Jean-Pierre Jabouille Renault
This was Jean-Pierre Jabouille last F1 race victory. Alan Jones in a Williams finished second by less than a second.

1979

Race winner: Alan Jones Williams
Alan Jones won from second on the grid ahead of the Ferrari of Gilles Villeneuve.

1978

Race winner: Ronnie Peterson Lotus
This was Ronnie Peterson's last race win before his death.

1977

Race winner: Alan Jones Shadow
Alan Jones won his first F1 race in a Shadow. This was the only F1 victory for the Shadow team. Niki Lauda was second having started on pole position.

1976

Race winner: John Watson Penske
This was John Watson's first F1 victory and it was Penske's only F1 victory. Ferrari did not enter the race as a protest at a previous race result. This was the last F1 race that a female drive (Lella Lombardi) completed on F1 GP.

1975

Race winner: Vittorio Brambilla March
This was Vittorio Brambilla's only F1 race victory in a race that was stopped early due to heavy rain causing dangerous driving conditions. Sadly Mark Donohue was killed in a crash during practice.

1974

Race winner: Carlos Reutemann Brabham
Carlos Reutemann won from second on the grid ahead of Denny Hulme in his final F1 podium finish.

1973

Race winner: Ronnie Peterson Lotus
Ronnie Peterson won from Jackie Stewart with what was to be his final F1 podium finish.

1972

Race winner: Emerson Fittipaldi Lotus
Emerson Fittipaldi won from pole position from the McLaren’s of Denny Hulme and Peter Revson.

1971

Race winner: Jo Siffert BRM
Jo Siffert won from pole position ahead of the Lotus of Emerson Fittipaldi. This was Niki Lauda's first F1 race, but he retired from the race.

1970

Race winner: Jacky Ickx Ferrari
Jacky Ickx won from the second row of the grid ahead of Clay Regazzoni in another Ferrari and Rolf Stommelen in a Brabham. This was Rolf Stommelen's only podium finish.