New Season to bring Joys for Ferrari
The opening race at Melbourne in Australia held on 25th March 2018 where both the Ferrari drivers dominated. With a new season drivers tried to gear up and take the most advantage from the opening race. Rivalry began from the Practice sessions when Lewis Hamilton won 2 out of 3 practices. Qualification for the race was scheduled on a day before of the main race.
Qualifying
Qualifier was divided in 3 rounds- Q1, Q2 and Q3. 15 racers out of 20 qualify for Q2 and 10 out of 15 go to the final Q3. Mercedes rider Lewis Hamilton secured 1st place in the qualifyings as he was quickest from all. He registered his 73rd Pole position in his career and 7th in Australia. While Raikkonen stood 2nd and Vettel on 3rd. Valtteri Bottas, other Mercedes rider was penalised 5 positions back and started the race on 15th spot. Daniel Ricciardo was too penalised for 3 positions and he started the race from 8th spot
Standings for the Race
Pos.- Position, No.- Number
Main Race
The 1st race of the season started senastionaly well. Hamilton managed to maintain his lead while Magnussen jumped to 4th spot leaving both Red bull drivers back. Sirotkin got out in his first Formula One race, not a good start for Williams. Vettel lead the race when Raikkonen and Hamilton went for the pit stop.
Racers were constantly attacking on each other to gain position. Haas riders were looking good but a pit stop costed end of the race for them. Haas team principal said that the wheels were cross-nutted when each of them departed the pit. The car's stopped when they went to the track and they were out. The incident resulted in Yellow flag and Virtual safety car which means the racers have to lower their speed below a limit and cannot overtake anyone on track. Sebastian took the most advantage of the situation. When the racers were slow he went to the pit to get fresh tyres and defended his 1st position from Hamilton when he came out. Alonso jumped to 5th spot, ahead of Red Bull rider Verstappen. Alonso was constantly attacked by him.
While the race was coming to an end, Vettel managed to maintain a gap of more than a second from Hamilton. But a software malfunction with Lewis assured German rider Sebastian to a spectacular win. Vettel was all cheered up! He got the perfect start for the season he would have wanted. While British rider Hamilton secured 2nd and Finland rider Raikkonen stood on 3rd. Ferrari performed really well as their racers secured podium.
Main Race Results
NC- Not classified, DNF- Did not Finish
Statistics:-
- Vettel ensured 3rd victory in Australia
- Back to Back victories in Australia for Vettel
- This is his 48th career win and 100th podium position
- Ferrari ensured 8th win in Australia
- No Australian has ever managed a podium position on Australian Grand Prix
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