A red flag is shown whether there is a crash or poor track conditions to warrant the qualifying being stopped.
2009 Brazilian Grand Prix qualifying was dominated by a tropical storm that would interrupt the session for over an hour, and made the session last 2 hours and 41 minutes, the longest qualifying session in the history of F1. 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying saw a record six red flags, which is a record in F1 history.
List of red-flagged qualifyings[]
| N | The qualifying was not restarted. |
|---|---|
| Y | The qualifying was restarted. |
| Event | Red flagged |
R | Incident |
|---|---|---|---|
 1970 Italian Grand Prix
|
Y | Fatal accident of Jochen Rindt | |
 1973 United States Grand Prix
|
Y | Fatal accident of François Cevert | |
 1982 Belgian Grand Prix
|
N | Fatal accident of Gilles Villeneuve. The qualifying was abandoned. | |
 1994 San Marino Grand Prix
|
Y | Accident of Rubens Barrichello. | |
| Y | Fatal accident of Roland Ratzenberger. | ||
 1995 Australian Grand Prix
|
Y | Accident of Mika Häkkinen. | |
 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix
|
Y | Accident of Kimi Räikkönen In Q1 | |
| 2006 Australian Grand Prix
|
Y | ||
 2009 Japanese Grand Prix
|
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 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix
|
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 2010 Malaysian Grand Prix
|
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| 2015 United States Grand Prix
|
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 2016 Hungarian Grand Prix
|
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| 2018 Australian Grand Prix
|
Y | Accident of Valtteri Bottas. | |
 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
|
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| 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix
|
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| 2023 Australian Grand Prix
|
Y | Accident of Sergio Pérez In Q1 | |
| 2023 Miami Grand Prix
|
N | Charles Leclerc spun out and crash the tecpro barrier out of turn 7 in Q3 | |
| 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
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