The F1 class of 2015.
Early in Sunday, it was reported that after a few tests, Valtteri Bottas would be unfit to race due to back pains.
The moment in which Kvyät's car stopped.
With that, only 17 cars were set to start the race in Melbourne, had it not been for Daniil Kvyät's and Kevin Magnussen's retirements during their outing lap, both due to engine issues.
In the end, only 15 out of 20 cars on the entry list started the race.
Start of the race in Melbourne.
A few touches between Kimi Räikkönen's Ferrari, Felipe Nasr's Sauber and Pastor Maldonado's Lotus brought the retirement of the Venezuelan after hitting the wall, a shame given the big chances he had of scoring points.
This incident brought out the safety car, which stayed for another five laps.
It was proved to be a terrible start to the season for Lotus as Romain Grosjean, who was seen stalling on the start and driving slowly, was forced to retire in the first lap. This left us with a 13-car race.
As expected, the race was dominated by the Mercedes, who of course claimed a 1-2 finish, 34 seconds ahead of the third placed car. This time, it was Lewis Hamilton's Silver Arrow the one that made it across the finish line first, totally different result to that Lewis had here a year ago, when he retired early due to engine issues.
Only 1.3 seconds behind arrived the second Silver Arrow, that of Nico Rosberg. The German dominated the two free practices on Friday but saw himself behind his British teammate on both FP3 and Qualifying.
At some moments, it appeared as if we were set to see Nico challenging Lewis for the win, when Rosberg cut Hamilton's lead by a few tenths of a second but, despite Nico's efforts and his team's good job in boxes, 1.2 seconds was the closest he was from his rival.
Lewis' 34th win, his second in Albert Park.
Champagne celebration for Nico and Lewis.
The best of all three was Sauber's Brazilian Felipe Nasr, who overcame a starting position of tenth and a bad start where he had some contacts, to recover five positions to finish fifth, which would earn him his first ten Formula One points of his career and Sauber's first points since the 2013 season.
The second highest placed newcomer was 2014 Formula Renault 3.5 champion, Carlos Sainz. The Spaniard started the race seventh but lost his starting slot's benefits when a problem fitting a wheel in the fits caused him to lose up to 35 seconds.
The older of Toro Rosso's two rookies made a superb recovery to make up for the time lost in his stop and got himself back into the position to fight for the points and after a fierce battle for eighth place with Sauber's Marcus Ericsson in the closing stages of the race, managed to claim two points for the team, Sainz's first points in his career.
Had there not been an engine failure for him, not only all three rookies would have scored points in their first race but also, this young man would've became the youngest driver to score points in F1 history. Unfortunately, Toro Rosso's 17-year old Dutch rookie Max Verstappen could not support his string performance with a point scoring finish, Max was running in a strong seventh position when his engine stalled, forcing him to park his car on the side of the track and eventually retire. However, this does not mean that Verstappen will not be able to break Daniil Kvyät's record as the youngest driver to score points since he still has plenty of races to achieve the milestone.
With the pressure this man has on him ahead of his first season at a very early age, his performance today is a sign of how low is that pressure's impact on him, I'm sure he will be showing more good races this year and it certainly will be a close match between Toro Rosso's two rookies.
Although not a rookie anymore, Marcus Ericsson's finished eighth after beating Carlos Sainz in a fierce battle in the last laps to claim four points and seal a race with two cars on the points for Sauber.
A certainly satisfying result for the Swiss squad after everything they went through this week with their legal issues.
If there's one man in the paddock who has the right to be upset, that man is Red Bull team boss Christian Horner given the fact that his Renault power unit, apart from being the second most unreliable behind the Honda it is simply not as quick as the Ferrari PU or the Mercedes.
Their power unit is the one to blame in today's result for them, with Daniil Kvyät retiring even before getting to the grid and with star driver Daniel Ricciardo finish only in sixth position behind Felipe Nasr.
Last season they were able to save the year with the chassis and managed to win a few races and claim a few podiums but so far, this year the panorama looks worse.
Due to their late start on the car's development, it was expect for Force India to have a not-so-good race.
Nico Hulkenberg could only finish seventh and Sergio Perez finished 10th, with the Mexican completing a successful comeback after spinning off due to contact with McLaren's Jenson Button.
Since they use a Mercedes power unit, better results should come once the understanding of the car is better.
Only the retirements that caused Jenson a Button to finish eleventh made McLaren look better than they actually are.
First, Kevin Magnussen exited the race in his outing lap due to engine issues, later on, Jenson Button lost his chance of scoring points when Sergio Perez overtook him.
It is not clear whether the team will be able to get off the ground soon.
If I had to name the man of the day, it would have to be Sebastian Vettel, not only his bold move of leaving his old team paid off for him but also his performance today, specifically on the last stint, allowed him to get past Felipe Massa to claim third place, his first podium with Ferrari in his first race with them.
There's much more to come, I believe the Italian team is capable of fighting with the Williams for second place and even of taking a couple wins.
However it was a bittersweet race for them as they saw Kimi Räikkönen retiring after showing great pace in his last stint.
The Finn's race started badly, suffering from contact with Sainz and Nast in the first turn and losing positions as a result.
A second setback for him would happen in his first pitstop, where he lost 5 seconds as the team struggled to fit his rear left wheel.
His second stop was way better and he managed to keep the fifth position in which he was.
He set the fastest lap three times and began to threat Felipe Massa for fourth place but couldn't get him before his last stop.
This last stop was the one that would seal the end to his race, the problems they suffered to fit the rear left wheel were repeated and this time for worse, the wheel was fitted incorrectly and he was forced to pull out a few turns later.
With the pace he had it was such a shame to see him leave the race.
The two German congratulate each other on parc fermé.
A positive start to the Ferrari-Vettel relationship.
First podium of 2015.
The moment in which Kimi ran off track at the start.
Felipe Massa finished fourth behind Vettel and rescued 12 points for Williams as the only driver the team had on track in this race.
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