Despite his claims that Mercedes were on the back foot going into this weekends opening race in Melbourne, Lewis Hamilton topped both of the practice sessions. In FP1, the five times champion was three hundredths off a second faster than his expected title rival Sebastian Vettel. While he was four hundredths faster than teammate Valtteri
Lewis Hamilton continued to set the pace in the second practice session ahead of this weekends season-opening Australian Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver edged out his teammate Valtteri Bottas by four hundredths of a second. Mercedes has shown pace in both sessions, but Hamilton managed to increase his lead over his main rival Sebastian Vettel.
Lewis Hamilton was fastest in the first practice session ahead of this weekends season-opening Australian Grand Prix, edging out Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel by three-hundredths of a second. Following winter testing the Mercedes driver had warned that they were expecting to be on the back foot, but the Englishman put the Silver Arrow fastest ahead of
The opening race of the 2019 season takes Formula One to Albert Park in Melbourne. Albert Park returned to the Grand Prix calendar in 1995 after moving from Adelaide to a street circuit around the lake in the middle of a public park. The circuit remains as it was when it was first hosted the
