[14] Massa retired from Formula One at the conclusion of the 2017 championship, and was replaced at Williams by former Renault test driver and SMP Racing driver Sergey Sirotkin, who made his competitive début with the team. He then improved his lap to a circuit-record 1 minute and 21.164 seconds to clinch pole position. ", "Australian GP, Practice One: Lewis Hamilton sets searing early pace", "Formula 1: Hamilton fastest in Australian Grand Prix first practice", "Lewis Hamilton tops Australia first practice", "Australian Grand Prix: Hamilton leads Verstappen in practice", "Formel 1, 2. Verstappen qualified in the fourth position. They stayed in that order until the first round of pit stops. The 107% rule was in effect during this part, requiring drivers to set a time within 107% of the fastest lap in order to qualify. Ferrari, meanwhile, would head the Constructors' Championship after t… Formula One cars will race in Miami next year after the sport announced a 10-year deal to host a Miami Grand Prix starting in 2022. [37] He was joined on the grid's front row by Räikkönen who recorded a lap 0.664 seconds slower and his teammate Vettel was third after a driving error at turn 13. Kimi Räikkönen ended the afternoon in third ahead of Daniel Ricciardo, while Fernando Alonso completed the top five. I hope that I haven’t reached my peak yet. The Red Bulls of Verstappen and Ricciardo were fourth and fifth. Here are the race’s winners and losers. The second part lasted 15 minutes, eliminating cars that finished 11th to 15th, before the third and final part that ran for 12 minutes and determined pole position to tenth. [32] Räikkönen was the early pace setter after all competitors set their first timed laps but it was Hamilton who improved his effort and lowered his own pole position lap time from the previous year. Alonso resisted the pressure from Verstappen while holding on to fifth place. On lap 18 Räikkönen pitted for softs. Follow the race through our live blog, find useful information about the circuit and view the results! FP2 Results – 2018 Australian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:23.931 [32] Hamilton led the session with a lap of 1 minute and 22.824 seconds that he recorded on his second attempt, ahead of the Ferrari duo of Räikkönen and Vettel. Michael Schumacher is the most successful driver at Albert Park, scoring four wins (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004). [32] It was his fifth consecutive pole position at the track, his seventh overall in Melbourne to move past Ayrton Senna in the number of pole positions in Australia, and the 73rd of his career. [29] During the session, in which Verstappen and Nico Hülkenberg of Renault slithered exiting turn ten, the steering wheel on Hamilton's car was replaced in the pit lane when it developed a technical fault,[30] and owing to a lack of spare car parts, Force India chose not to set any timed laps during the one-hour period. He steered to the middle and Bottas swerved to the outside under braking due to a miscommunication that sent him into the gravel trap. Supplemental Privacy Policy for Singapore. The safety car came in at the end of lap 31. Hamilton went to the top of the time sheets soon after until Räikkönen moved ahead of him 35 minutes into the session. Ricciardo hounded Räikkönen for the rest of the race, setting the fastest lap in the process. Register your interest to be notified when tickets for the Formula 1® Rolex Australian Grand Prix 2021 go on sale. [15] Elsewhere, Toro Rosso employed 2016 GP2 Series champion Pierre Gasly and two-time World Endurance co-champion Brendon Hartley as their full-time drivers for 2018 after the pair debuted with the squad in the latter stages of the 2017 championship. Get to know everything about the Grand Prix of Australia 2018. Wet-weather tyres were used for the majority of the session before it dried sufficiently enough to warrant the use of dry tyre compounds. 2018 Formula One Australian Grand Prix | The world's largest repository of motor racing results and statistics from F1 to WRC, from MotoGP, covering 50 events every weekend with stats dating back to 1894 | Motorsport Stats [21] On the supersoft compound tyres, Hamilton set the fastest time in the opening practice session with a 1-minute and 24.026 seconds lap, followed by his teammate Valtteri Bottas who was 0.551 seconds slower in second place and Max Verstappen of Red Bull was third. Sergey Sirotkin was the first retirement of the race when on lap 4 he retired due to a brake failure caused by overheating. [34], To commence the second qualifying session (Q2), Red Bull elected to send their drivers out on the supersoft compound tyres rather than the ultrasoft compound tyres and this determined which type of tyre the team would start the race on. [26] The session was stopped for five minutes when a timing cable wire detached and fell onto the start/finish straight and was picked up by track marshals quickly. The detection point for the third zone was positioned on the approach to the turns 11 and 12 chicane with the activation point on the exit to turn 12. [35] The grid lined up after penalties as Hamilton, Räikkönen, Vettel, Verstappen, Magnussen, Grosjean, Hülkenberg, Ricciardo, Sainz, Alonso, Vandoorne, Pérez, Stroll, Ocon, Bottas, Hartley, Ericsson, Leclerc, Sirotkin and Gasly.[32]. [32][33], As he began his first timed lap in Q3,[33] Bottas took too much kerb on the exit to the first turn,[32] which was damp from the earlier rain, causing him to run wide, and he spun from having excessive wheelspin into the right-hand side barrier at turn two, and crashed heavily in an impact measured at 27 g.[35] His car spun ending up in the middle of the track with debris littered across it. See more from Formula 1 on ESPN. Australian Grand Prix – Here are the results from the second free practice session from the first round of the 2018 Formula 1 season in Melbourne. The 2018 Australian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 2018 Rolex Australian Grand Prix)[3] was a Formula One motor race held on 25 March 2018 in Melbourne, Victoria. Alvaro Bautista finished fourth on Jorge Lorenzo’s Ducati GP18.Even Bradley Smith made a KTM top ten appearance. [36] When Q3 restarted, Hamilton paced the field but his first lap was slower than in Q2, possibly because of fluid deposited by his teammate Bottas between turns one and two. As of the 2018 edition, four-time World Drivers' Champion Alain Prost remains the only driver to win the race in both World Championship and domestic formats, winning the Australian Drivers' Championship 1982 race before winning in Adelaide in 1986 and 1988. Drivers in bold are competing in the Formula One championship in the current season. [11] In response to concerns about the halo impairing drivers' visibility, the world governing body of motorsport, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), lowered the starting gantries at circuits to improve the starting lights visibility. Ricciardo's 4th-placed finish marked his joint best finish at Albert Park, but also the joint best finish for an Australian at the Australian Grand Prix, equalling his 2016 result, and Mark Webber's 4th place in 2012. The race was contested at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit and was the first round of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship. The Australian motorcycle Grand Prix is a motorcycling event that is part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. Times are also very different to when Fangio achieved his five titles, and every era has its different challenges. Alonso pitted under the VSC to emerge ahead of Verstappen. "[17], Per the regulations for the 2018 season, three practice sessions were held, two 90-minute sessions on Friday and another 60-minute session before qualifying on Saturday. [5], The Australian Grand Prix was officially confirmed as the first of 21 races of the 2018 Formula One World Championship in an FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting in Paris in December 2017. However, I agree that all of these wouldn't have happened if Vettel didn't t follow his strong win way. It was the first double-DNF for the Mercs since the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix and the first retirement for Hamilton since the 2016 race at Malaysia, snapping his run of 33 consecutive races in the points, a record at the time. Get ready to Live Fast. Haas' Romain Grosjean, Fernando Alonso of McLaren (who remained in the garage for first practice's first hour with an exhaust problem), Carlos Sainz Jr. for Renault and Alonso's teammate Stoffel Vandoorne (who had driveability issues) rounded out the session's top ten drivers. [4] The race marked the 83rd race in the combined history of the Australian Grand Prix – which dates back to the 100 Miles Road Race of 1928 – and the 23rd time the event was held at the Albert Park circuit. The session was temporarily stopped to repair the barriers and clean up the debris. Verstappen, Bottas, Räikkönen, Vettel, Grosjean, Ricciardo, Alonso, Magnussen and Vandoorne followed in positions two through ten. Here's how he did it and what Red Bull needs to do to beat him on Sunday. | FIA Results … 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship Australian Grand Prix | The free to access FIA results website covers 17 FIA championships, including a comprehensive history of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship from 1950 onwards and a full record of all other FIA World Championships. Austrian Grand Prix: Results, Winners & Short History. In the week befor… Antonio Giovinazzi has criticised Nikita Mazepin for disrespectful driving after having his final qualifying lap ruined by the Haas rookie at Imola. Hamilton led Räikkönen, Vettel, Magnussen, Grosjean, Ricciardo, Hülkenberg, Verstappen, Sainz and Alonso. "[17] However, Vettel stated he was unconcerned with it as he anticipated the events of the upcoming season and not those in the far future, "That’s a long way ahead, and we all know how many things need to come together to fight for the championship to the end of the season, and to win it. [33] The five drivers who were eliminated from qualifying in Q1 were Hartley, the Saubers of Ericsson and Leclerc, Sirotkin,[32] and Gasly after he made a driving error and ran into the turn three gravel trap after he locked his tyres. FORMULA 1 2018 ROLEX AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX - RACE RESULT 22 25 … MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 15: (L-R front) Sebastian Vettel of Germany and Ferrari, Kimi Raikkonen of Finland and Ferrari, Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes GP, Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain and Mercedes GP, Daniel Ricciardo of Australia and Infiniti Red Bull Racing, Daniil Kvyat of Russia and Infiniti Red Bull Racing and Felipe Massa of Brazil and Williams, (L-R middle) … The 2018 Formula 1 season opened up with Sebastian Vettel winning the Rolex Australian Grand Prix. The Australian Grand Prix was officially confirmed as the first of 21 races of the 2018 Formula One World Championship in an FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting in Paris in December 2017. [26] Thunderstorms on Saturday morning saturated the track and made it slippery to drive on. It took place at the 15-turn 5.303 km (3.295 mi) Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria on 25 March 2018. [32], Following his crash that brought Q3 to a stop, Bottas was transported to the circuit's medical centre for a precautionary check-up and he was declared fit to race. [20] In the first part of qualifying (Q1), track conditions improved greatly as drivers settled into undertaking long distance runs to acquaint themselves with the evolving conditions. [5] Lewis Hamilton started the race from pole – his seventh pole position in Australia,[6] a record for the event – while Vettel successfully defended his race win, the 48th of his career. [25] Räikkönen was slow in turn three as Bottas approached him. 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Here is Race Results - 2018 Australian Grand Prix [7] It took place at the 15-turn 5.303 km (3.295 mi) Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria on 25 March 2018. [17][18] Hamilton said he had not mulled about the prospects of equalling Fangio during the winter hiatus but the potential of doing so excited him,[19] "In my mind I want to break barriers, push the envelope and see how far I can take the ability I have and reach my full potential. Australian Grand Prix (2019 Australian Grand Prix, 2017 Australian Grand Prix) Part of: 2018 Formula One World Championship (2018 Bahrain Grand Prix, 1) Location: Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Albert Park and Lake, Victoria, AUS : Winner Tyre supplier Pirellibrought three types of tyre to the Grand Prix: three dry compounds (the purple-banded ultrasoft "option", the red-banded supersoft and the yellow-banded soft "prime" tyres). The 2018 Australian Grand Prix The safety car had become the point in Australian Grand Prix , it was a miracle for Sebastian Vettel . [12], Out of the 10 teams and 20 drivers on the starting grid, two drivers made their debut. It is not unusual to hear how the Grand Prix started with just a small group of speed fanatics organizing a tournament in their backyard and this eventually growing into one of the biggest racing championships we enjoy each year. Get the results of the Australian Grand Prix 2018 from every session. So it’s not in my mind now, let’s say. [28] They also concluded that Räikkönen had not "unnecessarily impeded" Bottas and was not penalised. The Austrian Grand Prix has quite an interesting history. Layout of the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, "2018 Formula 1 World Championship Programmes – The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project", "Albert Park – The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project", "FIA announces World Motor Sport Council decisions", Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, "2017 Australian Grand Prix Race – Provisional Classification", "Formula 1 2018 Rolex Australian Grand Prix – Qualifying", "F1 in 2018: FIA confirm 21-race calendar featuring triple header", "Australian Grand Prix: Does F1 finally have a three-way battle? [9] In the week before the Grand Prix, race officials confirmed the inclusion of a third drag reduction system (DRS) zone. None of the top ten pitted again. On lap 26 Vettel pitted under the VSC and emerged ahead of Hamilton and Räikkönen. On lap 19 Hamilton pitted for softs to cover Räikkönen and emerged on track ahead of him. 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