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The 2023 Season 1 DysFormula One World Championship is a online motor racing championship for Formula One cars, which is the 1st running of the DysFormula One World Championship. It is recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of international motorsport, as the highest class of competition for online open-wheel racing cars. The championship is contested over twenty-one Grands Prix held around the world. It began in April and ended in June.

Drivers and teams compete for the titles of World Drivers' Champion, Average Point Champion and World Constructors' Champion, respectively. Joshua Richter claimed the first World Drivers' Championship as well as the Average Point Championship. Williams, with the partnership of the two Richter brothers won the World Constructors' Championship.

Entries
The following constructors and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2023 Season 1 World Championship. All teams compete with tyres supplied by Pirelli. Each team is required to enter at least two drivers, one for each of the two mandatory cars.

Team changes
Honda returned as a named engine supplier to Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri, with both teams' engines badged as Honda RBPT. While Red Bull Powertrains had planned to take over assembly and maintenance of the engines from this season onwards, it was later agreed that Honda would continue its technical support of Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri until the end of 2025.

Driver changes
Sebastian Vettel retired at the end of the 2022 championship, ending his Formula One career after 16 seasons. His place at Aston Martin was taken by Fernando Alonso, who left Alpine after two seasons. His replacement was initially announced as the 2021 Formula 2 Champion and reserve driver Oscar Piastri. Shortly after the announcement, Piastri stated that he had not signed a contract for 2023 and that he would not be driving for Alpine. The FIA Contract Recognition Board ruled that he did not have any contractual obligations to race for Alpine. Pierre Gasly, who had a contract to drive for AlphaTauri, moved to Alpine, replacing Alonso. Gasly was replaced by the 2020–21 Formula E and 2019 Formula 2 Champion Nyck de Vries.

Daniel Ricciardo left McLaren after two seasons. Although he had a contract to drive for the team in 2023, it was terminated during the 2022 championship by mutual agreement. Ricciardo's seat was filled by Piastri, who made his Formula One debut. Nicholas Latifi left Williams after spending three seasons with the team. His seat was filled by Logan Sargeant, who made his Formula One debut by graduating from Formula 2 and became the first American Formula One driver to compete since Alexander Rossi in with former team Marussia and the first to compete full-time since Scott Speed in  with former team Toro Rosso. Mick Schumacher left Haas after two seasons. His seat was taken by Nico Hülkenberg, who last competed in Formula One as a full-time race driver in with former team Renault.

Calendar
The 2023 calendar comprises twenty-two Grands Prix. The Azerbaijan, Austrian, Belgian, United States and São Paulo Grands Prix feature the sprint format.

Calendar expansion and changes

 * The Russian Grand Prix was under contract to feature on the 2023 calendar. It was originally meant to switch its venue from the Sochi Autodrom to Igora Drive, in Novozhilovo, located about 54 km from Saint Petersburg. However, the Grand Prix had its contract terminated in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
 * The French Grand Prix did not feature on the 2023 calendar although the promoters of the Grand Prix stated that they would aim for a rotational race deal by sharing its slot with other Grands Prix.
 * The Chinese Grand Prix was initially due to be part of the calendar after last being held in, but it was cancelled for the fourth consecutive year due to the ongoing difficulties presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. It was not replaced.

Sporting regulations
With the intention of making tyre usage more sustainable in the future, Formula One will trial a reduction in allocated tyre sets from 13 to 11 at two races in 2023, one of those was to be the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix before its cancellation. At these races the use of tyres in qualifying will be mandated as hard in Q1, medium in Q2 and soft in Q3, assuming that the weather is dry. Teams are usually free to choose the tyre compound that they run during qualifying.

Pirelli announced a change to the available tyre compounds for 2023, as a new compound was inserted between the old C1 and C2 compounds. This change provides teams with more flexible strategy options after criticism towards the original C1 compound for a large drop in grip compared to the other tyres. Additionally, following criticism over the raceability of its full wet tyre in previous seasons, Pirelli has produced a new full wet tyre in the hope of reducing the need for safety car and red flags in wet race conditions. This new full wet tyre is scheduled to be in service from a Grand Prix to be selected. The sport will also aim to trial wet weather-specific bodywork designed to improve visibility and reduce spray during 2023 with the aim of fully introducing it by the start of the 2024 championship at latest.

There were only three days of pre-season testing, a reduction from 2022 when there were six days. During the F1 Commission held in February 2023 it was decided to relax the restrictions on team radio communications.

Sprint events
The sprint format is slated to be run at six Grands Prix in 2023, compared to three in and. During sprint weekends, teams are given a broader choice of parts that they are permitted to change under parc fermé conditions.

A new weekend format for sprint events (as compared to that used in 2021 and 2022) consists of a single practice session on Friday, followed by the qualifying session which determines the grid for the Sunday's Grand Prix. On Saturday, a new qualifying session called "sprint shootout", in place of the old second practice session, is run, determining the grid for the sprint. The Grand Prix (the main race) takes place on Sunday. The new sprint shootout qualifying is run shorter than the traditional qualifying: SQ1 is 12 minutes, SQ2 is 10 minutes, and SQ3 is 8 minutes. In addition, new tyres are mandatory for each phase, with a single set of mediums for each of SQ1 and SQ2, and a single set of softs for SQ3.

Pre-season
There was one pre-season test, at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir on 23–25 February. Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll missed the test after suffering a "minor" cycling accident during training. He was replaced by reserve driver Felipe Drugovich.

Opening rounds
Red Bull Racing locked out the front row for the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix, with the two Ferraris on the second row. The much-improved Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso started in fifth. Max Verstappen led nearly all the race comfortably, winning by eleven seconds ahead of his teammate Sergio Pérez. Charles Leclerc retired with a mechanical failure from third, with Alonso taking this spot, after a late race overtake on Carlos Sainz Jr.. Lewis Hamilton finished fifth. Lance Stroll, still racing with a broken wrist and toe, finished sixth, ahead of the Mercedes of George Russell.

In the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Pérez took pole position in qualifying. Pérez dropped to second position in the first lap to Alonso, but regained first on lap four. Verstappen, starting fifteenth on the grid, reached second by lap 25, and remained there for the rest of the race. Verstappen also recorded the fastest lap. Alonso rounded out the podium finishing third, with the Mercedes duo of Russell and Hamilton finishing in fourth and fifth respectively.

At the Australian Grand Prix, Verstappen took pole position in qualifying with Pérez starting from the pit lane. At the start of the race, Verstappen was overtaken by Russell and Hamilton. He regained the lead by lap 12 and would go on to lead the race comfortably, as Russell retired on lap 18 due to a mechanical issue. Verstappen won the race, followed by Hamilton and then Alonso, with Pérez clocking the fastest lap. The Grand Prix broke the record for most red flags, with three.

The Azerbaijan Grand Prix saw the season's first sprint event. Leclerc secured pole position ahead of Verstappen and Pérez. Additionally, Leclerc managed to secure pole position for the sprint ahead of Pérez and Verstappen, despite locking up and crashing out in turn 5 on his last lap. Sprint polesitter Leclerc got a good start off the line to take the lead of the sprint until Pérez had the opportunity to pass Leclerc on the main straight courtesy of the DRS; he kept the lead until the end of the sprint. Verstappen finished in third; Russell fourth. In the race, polesitter Leclerc led the race until lap four. The DRS was enabled on lap three, with Verstappen utilising it to pass Leclerc into the first corner on the following lap. Pérez would repeat the same move on lap six to take second place. As lap ten concluded, Verstappen went into the pit lane to switch tyres, but he would lose the effective lead of the race, as the safety car came out. Pérez, Verstappen and Leclerc would be the top three drivers for the rest of the race as Pérez took his second Azerbaijan Grand Prix victory. This was Leclerc and Ferrari's first podium finish of the season.

At the Miami Grand Prix, Pérez secured pole position ahead of Alonso and Sainz; Verstappen started ninth after he was unable to set a time, compounded by Leclerc crashing out during the final stages of Q3 and bringing out a red flag. Magnussen was able to secure fourth position ahead of the race. However, Verstappen would make up several positions during the race, and secured his second Miami Grand Prix victory ahead of Pérez and Alonso.

Verstappen secured pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix, ahead of Alonso, Leclerc and Alpine's Esteban Ocon who were all on provisional pole at some point during Q3. Leclerc was penalised with a three-place grid penalty after impeding McLaren's Lando Norris in qualifying. Perez crashed in Q1, and subsequently started 20th. The race was dry to start with but rain soon arrived leading to the first runners to switch to the Intermediate tyres at lap 51. In the race, Verstappen secured his second Monaco Grand Prix victory, with Alonso finishing second, his best result of the season. Ocon scored his first podium since winning the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix.

Scoring system
Points are awarded to the top ten classified drivers, the driver who sets the fastest lap during the Grand Prix (only if one of the top ten), and the top eight of the sprint. In the case of a tie on points, a countback system is used where the driver with the most Grand Prix wins is ranked higher (if the number of wins is identical, then the number of second places is considered, and so on). The points are awarded for every race using the following system:

World Drivers' Championship standings
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