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Australian GP: Vettel masters Hamilton
- Updated: March 26, 2017
PHOTO: AFP
MELBOURNE: Sebastian Vettel out-manoeuvred Lewis Hamilton and a universe champion Mercedes group with a overwhelming feat in a season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on Sunday.
Vettel won by roughly 10 seconds from Hamilton and Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in a autocratic feat of strategy and higher speed around a Albert Park travel circuit.
Ferrari hadn’t won in Melbourne given Kimi Raikkonen’s 2007 feat and it was Vettel’s second delight in Australia after winning a 2011 competition with Red Bull.
Hamilton on stick for season-opening Australian GP
It was also a vital fillip for a fledgling deteriorate and a new era of quicker cars after Ferrari’s higher pre-season exam times as they follow their initial universe constructors’ pretension given 2008.
The feat was a German four-time universe champion’s fourth for Ferrari and his initial given Singapore in 2015 and his 43rd career win.
“A pretension plea is a prolonged approach ahead. For now we are usually over a moon during a start we have finished here today,” Vettel said. “I was not wholly happy with my start, there was a bit of circle spin, though we was perplexing to keep a vigour on to give a summary that we are here to fight. There was a bit of fitness that Lewis came out in traffic.”
Ferrari got a improved of Mercedes in a solitary spin of tyre changes that eventually motionless a race.
Hamilton’s early stop meant he rejoined behind a Red Bull of Max Verstappen that authorised Vettel to open adult a wilful opening during a conduct of a field.
Hamilton pips Vettel in first-day testing
“A large congratulations to Ferrari and Sebastian,” Hamilton said. “In a race, we struggled with a tyres. we had to stop really early and we got stranded behind one of a Red Bulls, though that’s usually a approach it goes.”
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen was fourth with Verstappen fifth forward of Brazilian Felipe Massa in a Williams.
Australia’s large wish Daniel Ricciardo had a distressing day with rigging box problems finale his competition on a 29th path after he was forced to start from array line when his Red Bull automobile pennyless down on a warm-up lap.
Hamilton, who went into a competition on his fourth unbroken stick in Melbourne, got divided safely and avoided difficulty into a scandalous right hander out of home straight.
But Kevin Magnussen in a Haas clipped a kerb and slid into a Sauber of Marcus Ericsson on a initial turn. Both cars continued on in a race.
Hamilton grabbed a 1.5sec opening on Vettel after 9 laps forward of Bottas, Raikkonen and Verstappen.
Hamilton finished his initial array stop after path 17 to change to soothing tyres on his Mercedes to palm a lead over to Vettel and rejoined a competition in fifth mark behind Verstappen.
“Race vicious that we pass Verstappen,” Hamilton was told over a group radio to that he testily responded “how do we design me to do that right now?” as his gait slowed behind a Red Bull.
Vettel came into a pits to change tyres and rejoined a competition usually squeezing in forward of Verstappen and Hamilton.
When Verstappen came into a pits Vettel had non-stop a six-second lead over Hamilton during mid-distance.
Ricciardo’s dire competition came to a contemptible finish on a 29th path with his Red Bull entrance to a stop with slow gearbox problems.
“Sorry partner – a car’s done,” a Red Bull group told a distressed Ricciardo over a radio.
Vettel extended his lead over Hamilton to over 9 seconds after 41 laps with a triple universe champion clearly incompetent to tilt him in.
Bottas was pressuring Hamilton and was usually only over dual seconds behind in third place with Raikkonen struggling in fourth place forward of Verstappen.
Mercedes had no answer to a gait of Vettel, who posted a new fastest path of 1:26.638 in a final laps of a race.