Welcome to Melbourne in Australia! The first race in 2014 Formula 1 season!
Rain threatens in a race where Hamilton is the pole sitter, Ricciardo 2nd on the grid and Nico Rosberg behind him!
The beginning of a new era, the V6 engines era!
Anything could happen in this race!
LIGHTS OUT! RACE UNDERWAY IN MELBOURNE!
After more than three months, Formula One is back!
Rosberg into the lead! Overtakes Hamilton in the straight!
Ricciardo goes second, overtakes Hamilton, Magnussen third and Hulkenberg fourth. Hamilton felt to 5th.
Kobayashi's Caterham goes past the curve and hits what appears to be Massa's Williams!
Great first lap.
Bottas recovers the five spots he lost with the gearbox penalty.
Great race from the rookie Kvyät in P9.
Hamilton abandons the race due to engine problems.
Vettel also abandons due to engine too. Terrible situation for the world champion.
And Bottas overtakes his countryman Räikkönen with a great move, he could now go for Alonso!
Bottas hits the wall, rear right tire punctured. Suspension could've gotten broken but he boxed and continues on P17.
Shame for the Finn, he was doing such an awesome race.
SAFETY CAR
Bottas' tire left some remains on the track.
The first 9 cars box.
Lap 16. Safety Car out!
Race restart!
Rosberg, Ricciardo, Magnussen, Hulkenberg, Alonso, Button, Vergne, Räikkönen, Sutil and Kvyät on the top 10.
Bottas, recovering positions like there's no tomorrow! From P16 to P12 in only 2 laps!
'The Iceman', catching Jean-Eric Vergne, 0.8 behind him.
Excellent battle from 4th to 8th!
Alonso trying to catch Hulk, Button 0.7 seconds behind the Spaniard and Kimi also battling with Vergne.
And Valtteri Bottas overtakes Daniil Kvyät for P9! The Finnish-Russian wars in F1!
Rain could be coming, we see raindrops in Rosberg's helmet.
Engine oil pressure problem for Marcus Ericsson, both Caterhams abandon this race. The Swede was doing good in P14.
Lap 31. Pastor Maldonado stops out of the track, possible engine problem.
Box for Button in lap 32 falls to P8.
Battle between the Finns, Bottas 0.7 secs behind Kimi.
Kimi blocks the tire and Valtteri goes past him!
Alonso boxes in lap 36, he comes out before Hulk but the German easily gets the position back.
Pit stop for Magnussen, the Dane falls back to P3 behind Ricciardo.
The leader, Nico Rosberg, stops in lap 38. That'll surely make it for Keke's son.
The 'Toro Russian' Kvyät in P10 chasing Kimi for P9.
Also, Bottas trying to pass Vergne, just a few tenths behind him.
Awesome maneuver by Bottas! Goes past Vergne!
Räikkönen now, attacks the Frenchman too.
Ricciardo slowing down and the Danish rookie Kevin Magnussen behind approaching him.
Bottas now, attacking the German Nico Hulkenberg for P6. He overtakes him on lap 52.
Vergne struggles and goes slightly out of the track, Kimi takes advantage and overtakes him.
Last lap for Rosberg!
Rosberg wins in Melbourne! His 4th career win!
Incredible drive for Nico!
Daniel Ricciardo, the hometown boy, takes his first career podium! The first podium for a Australian in Australia.
Magnussen! The rookie grabs his first podium in his first ever career!
Nico raises his hand to be this year's champion.
With this result, the 'Toro Russian' Daniil Kvyät breaks Vettel's record and becomes the youngest Formula 1 driver in scoring points with today's 9th place finish.
Great race to watch. Valtteri Bottas, the man of the race today awesome performance.
BREAKING NEWS: Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo has been excluded from the Australian Grand Prix and has lost his 2nd place finish. FIA informed that the reason for this exclusion was that Ricciardo's car had exceeded the 100kg of fuel mass limit.
It's a shame for the Australia but I'd say that he should feel bad about it, I mean, he made a superb performance in front of his people, this exclusion only means he doesn't get the points for it.
With this, the top 10 is now this:
1-Rosberg 2-Magnussen 3-Button 4-Alonso 5-Bottas 6-Hulkenberg
7-Räikkönen 8-Vergne 9-Kvyät
10-Perez
Thank you all for all the reads in this blog and we'll be seeing ourselves in two weeks for the race in Malaysia.
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