Australian Grand Prix Review

Australian Grand Prix Review
By Simon Baggus

Mercedes on top with a dominant win at season opener.

As the lights turned green Hamilton had a terrible start and slipped back in the opening laps, allowing a fast starting Rosberg to jump into the lead and keep it to the flag pulling out a 20+ second gap with Ricciardo holding onto second by a few seconds and new boy Magnussun in third.

Lap three and Hamilton retired, surprisingly, after showing so much reliability from pre season testing, with Hulkenberg and Alonso moving up into the top five.

Whilst Ricciardo was relishing the lead battle and newfound form and reliability, his teammate and current world champ Seb Vettel had his own battle, with his car and retired a lap after Hamilton.

Already three of the big boys were out including Massa, who’s Williams was showing great potential, but sadly kobayashi didn’t agree.

Unlike his teammate, Bo77as who made a Stella drive after a disagreement with the wall bringing out the safety car, fighting back to sixth.

Alonso had a steady run in his not so prancing horse, bringing the car home in fifth place. With teammate Raikkonen having a hard weekend but still managing eighth.

Jenson Button a three time winner here, finished up in fourth, one place behind his team mate in what was an average weekend as Magnussun got the double on him in only his first gp weekend as an F1 driver.

Hulkenberg managed to stay in the top ten and finish seventh overall in what was a good run compared to his new teammate Perez, who finished eleventh.

A special mention goes to Torro Rosso as they managed to get both cars home in the top ten with Vergne ninth and new boy Kvyat rounding it out, which also means we have a new youngest ever points scorer in Kvyat taking the record away from Vettel.

Only three other finishers, which included the two Saubers of Sutil and Gutierrez in twelfth and thirteenth with Max Chilton again bringing the car home to keep his finishing record 100%

Eight non-finishers then also including Bianchi, Ericsson and the two Lotus drivers, Grojsean, who must be wondering where last years car is and Maldonado, who must be regretting his move away from Williams.

I shall leave you people with this one, my first of many and I hope you enjoy it.

I will see you all again for the Malaysian grand prix where I will give you another race review but until then, keep looking for the latest news gossip and rumours amongst the F1 world.

Thank you