2021 French Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 7 of 22[a] in the 2021 Formula One World Championship
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Race details[6][7][8][9] | |||||
Date | 20 June 2021 | ||||
Official name | Formula 1 Emirates Grand Prix de France 2021[10] | ||||
Location |
Circuit Paul Ricard Le Castellet, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France | ||||
Course | Permanent racing circuit | ||||
Course length | 5.842 km (3.630 miles) | ||||
Distance | 53 laps, 309.690 km (192.432 miles) | ||||
Weather | Windy and partly cloudy. Ambient temperature: 24 to 27 °C (75 to 81 °F); Surface temperature: 33 to 38 °C (91 to 100 °F) | ||||
Attendance | 15,000[11] | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver | Red Bull Racing-Honda | ||||
Time | 1:29.990 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver |
![]() | Red Bull Racing-Honda | |||
Time | 1:36.404 on lap 35 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | Red Bull Racing-Honda | ||||
Second | Mercedes | ||||
Third | Red Bull Racing-Honda | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 2021 French Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Emirates Grand Prix de France 2021) was a Formula One motor race which took place on 20 June 2021 at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, Var.[b] The 53-lap race was the seventh round of the 2021 Formula One World Championship. It was the 61st time the French Grand Prix had been included as a round of the world championship since the inception of the series in 1950.
Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen qualified on pole position, ahead of the Mercedes team's cars of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas. A mistake by Verstappen at the start handed Hamilton the early lead, but Verstappen regained the lead following the first round of pit stops. The Red Bull team agreed to use an alternative strategy, bringing Verstappen in for a second pit stop and dropping Verstappen eighteen seconds behind Hamilton, who reassumed first place. Verstappen (who had also claimed the bonus point for fastest lap) went on to win the race after he overtook Hamilton on the penultimate lap, with the newer tyres enabling his car to go faster. Verstappen's teammate Sergio Pérez overtook Bottas late in the race to claim third place. The result allowed Red Bull and Verstappen to extend their respective leads in the Constructors' and Drivers' Championships over Mercedes and Hamilton.
McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo improved upon their starting positions to finish fifth and sixth. This allowed the team to move up into third in the Constructors' Championship standings, passing Scuderia Ferrari, whose drivers both finished outside of the top ten points-scoring positions following issues with tyre wear. Scuderia AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly, Alpine F1 Team driver Fernando Alonso, and the two Aston Martins of Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll made up the rest of the top ten finishers. There were no retirements.
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