Who won the Grand Prix

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc won the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on Sunday, as world champion Max Verstappen was forced to retire his Red Bull after ...

Perez then overtook Russell for third at Turn 11 on Lap 37, which became second two laps later when Verstappen was told to stop his car due to a technical failure. He then spun and beached the car at Turn 10 on the second tour, bringing out the safety car. Verstappen was on course for second place when his car failed with 18 laps to go.

Melbourne came alive to play host to the biggest sporting event Australia has ever seen as Charles Leclerc drove to victory at Albert Park.

Live updates as Charles Leclerc starts the Australian Grand Prix on pole position, with the Ferrari driver aiming to continue his strong start to the 2022 ...

Leclerc holds on to the lead from Verstappen but the big winner is Hamilton who makes up two places to get up to third in his Mercedes. Perez had made a good start from third but found his way blocked at Turn 1 and lost momentum allowing Hamilton through. 15 minutes to race start: After two red flag incidents in qualifying as Lance Stroll and Nicholas Latifi had a spectacular coming together and then Fernando Alonso crashed, the chances of a safety car period in the race is very likely. 2 minutes to race start: The cars all leave the grid for the final parade lap before the 58 laps of action in Melbourne gets underway. Lap 10: Leclerc has a 1.4 seconds lead over Verstappen as Perez gets the job done and lunges past Hamilton at Turn 3 on Lap 10 to get third place. The world champion is struggling with his tyres but it is too early for an one-stop strategy to work. Lap 17: Behind the front three it is Hamilton leading the best of the rest fight in fourth. He comes out in seventh and this feels like a damage limitation, take second spot and hope for better later on in the season, then an attempt to win today. Hamilton also pits and he leapfrogs Perez and is ahead of the Red Bull but that doesn't last long as the Mexican bravely passes him at Turn 9. At present, with the 18 seconds usually lost for a stop he would drop to 17th and last of the cars still running. Hamilton then passes the Spaniard at the start of Lap 31 and surely the Alpine driver needs to pit soon. Lap 33: Martin Brundle on Sky Sports in the UK has made the valid point that the safety car periods and the improved speed of Mercedes has hurt Red Bull today. There is still a long way to go but Leclerc and Ferrari look the real deal.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc claimed his second win of the Formula One season with a thumping, pole-to-flag victory at the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday as ...

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With the addition of pole position, Charles Leclerc became the 26th different driver to have a Grand Slam victory in Formula 1 history. Charles Leclerc would go on not only to win the race but also set the fastest lap and led every lap of the race. It was a disappointing end to Vettel’s first race of his season after testing positive for COVID and missing the first two races. Leclerc has a pace advantage over his Red Bull rival and was able to pull a gap of five seconds. Leclerc won pole on Saturday by three-tenths of a second over Verstappen. The race start also went in Leclerc’s favor. He caused a collision with fellow Canadian Nicholas Latifi as the Williams driver was passing him during qualifying.

Lap-by-lap report: Will Charles Leclerc win the race from pole? Join Daniel Harris to find out.

So, I hope it continues like this, and if it does, we probably have chances for the championship, which obviously makes me smile after the last two years that have been difficult for the team and, obviously, for myself, so it is great to be back in this position.” Not really, he wants to see if the same problem will affect him, and is assured it won’t. Of course, I did a good job where we can, but it was not possible without the car, and this we especially with the race pace, we were especially strong. Thanks for your company and comments – we’ll be back in a fortnight for the Emilia Romagna Grand prix at Imola, the first of two in Italy. Otherwise, enjoy what might just be the most ludicrous sporting day of the year – and don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. There are “things in the pipeline that’ll help,” he adds. A dominant win from Charles Leclerc, which confirms what we thought we knew: he might just go on and win this thing.