Every Australian Grand Prix Winner, From Adelaide 1985 to Melbourne 2026

We took the official race results, starting grids and final standings of all 40 races from formula1.com: 11 on the Adelaide street circuit, from 1985 to 1995, and 29 at Albert Park in Melbourne since 1996, with no race in 2020 or 2021. We counted as in our study of pole position, our ranking of overtaking by circuit and our history of the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Every Australian Grand Prix winner, 1985 to 2026

Keke Rosberg won the first world-championship Australian Grand Prix, for Williams in Adelaide in 1985, and Damon Hill won both the last race in Adelaide, in 1995, and the first in Melbourne, in 1996. In all, 25 drivers and nine teams have won. Eighteen winners started from pole and 26 from the front row; the furthest back was David Coulthard, 11th on the grid for McLaren in 2003.

Most wins at the Australian Grand Prix

Michael Schumacher won four, all for Ferrari, in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004. Counting the race's years outside the world championship too, that ties Lex Davison for the most in the event's history, according to Wikipedia's list of winners. Jenson Button won three, for Brawn in 2009 and McLaren in 2010 and 2012, and so did Sebastian Vettel, for Red Bull in 2011 and Ferrari in 2017 and 2018. Eight drivers won twice and 14 once.

• Teams: McLaren 12, with eight different drivers; Ferrari 11, with seven; Williams and Mercedes 5 each; Renault and Red Bull 2 each; Benetton, Brawn and Lotus 1 each.
• Podiums: Lewis Hamilton 10, the most, and Vettel 7.
• Pole positions: Hamilton 8, including six in a row from 2014 to 2019, and won only the 2015 race among them. Ayrton Senna took six, all in Adelaide, and won from two of them, in 1991 and 1993.

Australian Grand Prix pole position win rate

The driver on pole won 18 of the 40 races, 45 percent, the same share in Adelaide (5 of 11) as at Albert Park (13 of 29). From 2000, Albert Park's figure is 12 of 25, 48 percent, as our pole study found, a little below the 52 percent of all 518 Grands Prix it covered. The pole sitter failed to finish 12 times, most recently Max Verstappen in 2024.

Nine winners started fourth or lower, five of them in Adelaide:

• Alain Prost (1986, from fourth), Thierry Boutsen (1989, fifth), Nelson Piquet (1990, seventh) and Gerhard Berger (1992, fourth) in Adelaide.
• David Coulthard (1997, fourth, and 2003, 11th), Eddie Irvine (1999, sixth), Button (2010, fourth) and Kimi Räikkönen (2013, seventh) at Albert Park.

Does the Australian Grand Prix winner win the championship?

Less often than it used to. Of the 28 Melbourne races through 2025, 15 were won by that season's world champion, 54 percent. In the first 14, from 1996 to 2009, it was 10; in the 14 since, from 2010 to 2025, five. Across every season opener from 1996 to 2025, wherever it was held, the winner took the title 16 times in 30, 53 percent.

Adelaide was different: it was always the last race of the season, so the title was usually settled before the cars got there, and only two of its 11 winners were that year's champion. One was Prost in 1986, who won the race and the title, two points ahead of Nigel Mansell, 72 to 70, in formula1.com's final standings. In 1994, Michael Schumacher and Hill both failed to finish in Adelaide, and Schumacher was champion by one point, 92 to 91, in a race Mansell won.

Retirements at Adelaide and Albert Park

Far fewer cars finished in Adelaide: 127 of 271 starters were classified at the finish there, 47 percent, against 394 of 592 at Albert Park, 67 percent. Six races ended with only eight classified cars: Adelaide in 1985, 1989 and 1995, and Melbourne in 1999, 2002 and 2008, the most recent race with so few in our DNF study. The most was 20 of 26 starters, in Adelaide in 1991.

Retirements reshuffle the order: since 2000, a classified driver at Albert Park ended an average of 3.8 places away from their starting slot, level with Sepang and Hockenheim for the most of the 22 circuits in our overtaking study.

Australian drivers at the Australian Grand Prix

Jack Brabham won the Australian Grand Prix three times, in 1955, 1963 and 1964, and Alan Jones won it in 1980, but all four were before the race joined the world championship. Jones's win, in the year Jones became world champion, is the last by an Australian. Since 1985, six Australians have raced at home in 31 entries, and none has reached the podium:

• Alan Jones raced the first two Adelaide Grands Prix, in 1985 and 1986, and Jack Brabham's son David Brabham two more, in 1990 and 1994; none of the four reached the finish.
• Mark Webber finished fifth on debut for Minardi in 2002 and started second twice, in 2010 and 2013, but Webber's best result in 12 home races was fourth, in 2012.
• Daniel Ricciardo crossed the line second for Red Bull in 2014 and was then excluded for exceeding the maximum fuel flow rate; Ricciardo's best classified result was fourth, in 2016 and 2018.
• Oscar Piastri was eighth in 2023, fourth in 2024 and ninth in 2025 from second on the grid. Jack Doohan's only home race, in 2025, ended without a classified finish.

The 2026 Australian Grand Prix

The 2026 race opened the season on March 8. Russell won from pole, 2.974 seconds ahead of teammate Kimi Antonelli, for a Mercedes one-two and the sixth win of Russell's career, with Charles Leclerc third for Ferrari. There were two virtual safety car periods, and Verstappen came from 20th on the grid to sixth.

Piastri had qualified fifth but crashed on the way to the grid, losing control of the McLaren at the exit of Turn 4, and did not start. Since then, 16 rounds into the season, Piastri has not won a race and is seventh in the drivers' standings with 128 points; Antonelli leads Russell 320 to 236 after the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia on October 4. The rest of the season is on the 2026 F1 schedule, and the full table on our F1 standings.

Australian Grand Prix 2027 date

The 2027 Australian Grand Prix is from Friday, April 2, to Sunday, April 4, at Albert Park, round 3 of formula1.com's 2027 calendar. Bahrain opens the season, followed by Saudi Arabia, and Melbourne starts a run with Japan and China. It will also be the first Australian Grand Prix with a Sprint, one of five events new to the format in 2027.

Australian Grand Prix: frequently asked questions

Who has won the most Australian Grands Prix? Michael Schumacher, with four, all for Ferrari: 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004. Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel won three each, and McLaren, with 12, is the most successful team.

Who won the 2026 Australian Grand Prix? George Russell, from pole for Mercedes, ahead of Kimi Antonelli and Charles Leclerc. It was the season opener, on March 8, 2026.

When is the 2027 Australian Grand Prix? On Sunday, April 4, 2027, at Albert Park, as round 3 of the season and with Australia's first Sprint.

Has an Australian ever won the Australian Grand Prix in Formula 1? Not since it joined the world championship in 1985. Jack Brabham and Alan Jones won it before then; since 1985 the best home result by an Australian is fourth, by Mark Webber, Daniel Ricciardo and Oscar Piastri.

Does the winner in Melbourne win the title? In 15 of the 28 Melbourne races through 2025, but only five times since 2010, most recently Lando Norris in 2025.

How this was built: the official race results, starting grids and final drivers' standings of the 40 world-championship Australian Grands Prix, 1985 to 2026, from formula1.com, most saved for our earlier F1 studies and the rest downloaded on October 4, 2026. Pole is the first slot on the official grid; a starter listed as NC is not classified. Australian drivers and pre-1985 winners come from Wikipedia. The 2026 standings and the 2027 calendar were checked on formula1.com on October 4, 2026.