F1 Today – 21/01/2022
The latest news and analysis behind the headlines from across Formula One, exploring the day’s events from a global perspective.
Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit
F1 Today – 17/02/2021
The latest news and analysis behind the headlines from across Formula One, exploring the day’s events from a global perspective.
PRIXVIEW – Australian Grand Prix
Formula One Vault Prixviews the opening race of the 2020 season, which takes place in Albert Park, Melbourne.
Notebook – Australian Grand Prix – Review
Valtteri Bottas has got his 2019 season off to a great start, with a dominating race win in Melbourne. The whole weekend was a story of surprise as we believed that Ferrari were going to be ahead of Mercedes this weekend. Bottas stronger than ever? Valtteri Bottas has really recovered from that disappointing 2018
Australian GP – Results
Po Name Nat Team Time Points 1 Valtteri Bottas FIN Mercedes 01:25:27.325 26 2 Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes +00:20.886 18 3 Max Verstappen DUT Red Bull Racing – Honda +00:22.520 15 4 Sebastian Vettel GER Ferrari +00:57.109 12 5 Charles Leclerc MON Ferrari +00:00.000 10 6 Kevin Magnussen DEN Haas – Ferrari +01:27.000 8 7
AUSTRALIAN GP – Valtteri Bottas dominates to take victory in Melbourne by twenty seconds
Valtteri Bottas has beaten his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton to take a dominating victory at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. The Finn overtook his teammate from second on the grid building a gap of more than twenty seconds and set fastest lap to take a maximum number of points and lead the champion by eight
Australian GP – Qualifying Result
Po Name Nat Team Q1 Q2 Q3 1 Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes 01:22.043 01:21.014 01:20.486 2 Valtteri Bottas FIN Mercedes 01:22.367 01:21.193 01:20.598 3 Sebastian Vettel GER Ferrari 01:22.885 01:21.912 01:21.190 4 Max Verstappen DUT Red Bull – Honda 01:22.876 01:21.678 01:21.320 5 Charles Leclerc MON Ferrari 01:22.017 01:21.739 01:21.442 6 Romain Grosjean FRA Haas
AUSTRALIAN GP – Lewis Hamilton takes sixth back to back pole as Ferrari’s pace vanishes
Lewis Hamilton continued his strong start to the season by taking his sixth back to back pole position at Albert Park ahead of this weekend’s season opening Australian Grand Prix. The Englishman outpaced his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas by four tenths of a second. Mercedes pace in qualifying came as a surprise as the team
Notebook – Australian Practice
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
AUSTRALIAN GP – Lewis Hamilton continues to edge out Valtteri Bottas in second practice
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.