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00:00and it's lights out and away we go decent start from Charles Leclerc and he gets ahead then of
00:07Max Verstappen with Sergio Perez coming at his teammate there's Lewis Hamilton and George Russell
00:12down the inside Leclerc through for Verstappen Lewis Hamilton has moved his Mercedes up and into
00:17a further place as we head now down towards turn three there's Esteban Alcock having a move on
00:22Daniel Ricciardo Leclerc goes through for Verstappen then Hamilton ahead of Perez then in third
00:26then comes George Russell Lando Norris gets slightly compromised Daniel Ricciardo all over
00:31the back of his teammate's rear wing Carlos Sainz bogged down there behind the fast starting for once
00:36Alfa Romeo of Valtteri Bottas as we now head through the little flick nine and ten and going wheel to
00:43wheel side by side Valtteri Bottas and the AlphaTauri of Yuki Tsunoda Bottas is in 11th Tsunoda's 12th
00:50Alonso's dropped to 10th Ocon in 8th and they're all just compressing up but now at turn 11
00:55Carlos Sainz he's struggling a bit in these opening laps and barging wheels there with
01:00Mick Schumacher Sainz trying to go around the outside remember Sainz and Alonso on the hard
01:05compound tire just watching Sergio Perez and his start and watching closely once again how he has
01:13to pull out before he collects his teammate Max Verstappen yeah he had to be cautious there didn't
01:19he this visor cam is going to be very interesting later on in the race as the sun starts to go down and
01:24we'll see how the sun could impact the driver's vision out around here just constantly checking his
01:31mirrors isn't it constantly that is Carlos Sainz who looks like he's beached that Ferrari in the gravel on
01:39the exit of turn 10 past Mick Schumacher and then wow he's going in a little bit too hot couldn't keep
01:48it on the tarmac and that grass not exactly grippy even though we haven't had much rain around here
01:52yes he's gone in a little bit deep had to turn in and correct a slide across the grass and he's had
01:58a miserable miserable weekend oh and going off Sebastian Vettel who's only had 26 laps around
02:05Albert Park this weekend this is down at turn 11 we saw the results and that was the cause
02:13yeah sorry for that it's so difficult to test that car on the freight
02:17he's tipped in look gone in deep
02:23Daniel Ricciardo coming out well the Williams get in Ricciardo's way oh almost going into the back
02:36Alex Albon on Daniel Ricciardo and Albon is now getting a little bit squeezed by Lance Stroll and
02:41Aston Martin there's three of them trying to go into turn three now Ricciardo on the inside Albon
02:46goes the long way around the outside he's going to lose out to Lance Stroll who really picked his moment
02:51well warm-up is bad on this tire just do what you can as Lewis Hamilton sees the Red Bull going
03:00around the outside trying to pass it going into the chicane and he has done that Sergio Perez he had
03:06the pace advantage going around the outside gets a ripple of applause from the crowd now the safety
03:11car is out because Sebastian Vettel has stopped by the side of the track George Russell has come into
03:20the pits George Russell out again and up into third place he was right behind Alex Albon oh no he's on
03:28the exit of the turn four that's highly unusual he's dropped it coming off the curb
03:37holy cow that was close yeah understood whoa
03:44Charles Leclerc now we're going green did not get away well and Max Verstappen is right on his tail and they're
03:50going to go wheel to wheel into turn one here Charles Leclerc has been leading this race
03:53Verstappen fancies his chances Leclerc stays ahead but now we've got the rundown towards turn three can
04:00Verstappen get a slipstream behind the Ferrari and make an impression and take the lead of this race
04:05Leclerc under braking Verstappen second Hamilton and George Russell I should say all over Max Verstappen
04:11behind him comes Fernando Alonso as well and what an exciting restart this is
04:18George Russell got into the dirt a bit there Sergio Perez thought he might go around the outside
04:22into turn nine now we've got the run down towards turn 11 and Perez much closer than he has been before
04:28Russell's looking in his mirrors sees where Perez is Perez well he doesn't need to look at his mirrors
04:33now Sergio Perez has got past Max Verstappen has pulled over to the side of the track okay Max stop
04:43the car please oh and is this another power unit issue for Red Bull and Red Bull powertrains
04:51well that's did he shut that off the engine off himself yeah
05:06so he smelt it turn the engine off was told by the team to turn the engine off and pulled over at turn two
05:13this is Valtteri Bottas oh getting very very close indeed as the the Aston Martin of Lance Stroll squeezes
05:26his way down the inside Stroll made me to go off the track just a bit of review the overtake
05:37Pierre Gasly has locked up into turn 13 there's another one that has gone onto the grass
05:43and as a result Gasly has been passed by Valtteri Bottas here he is nice gap on the inside don't mind
05:49if I do Charles Leclerc keeping up Ferrari's happy hunting ground in Australia his three previous
05:57career wins have come from pole make that four career wins from pole position as Charles Leclerc takes the
06:04fastest lap of the race and wins the Australian Grand Prix Perez finishes on the podium takes second place
06:13and for his first podium of the season George Russell comes home to finish in third ahead of his teammate
06:19Lewis Hamilton in fourth fifth for Norris sixth for Daniel Ricciardo good finish for Pierre Gasly they
06:26they lost time in the early pit stops behind the safety car and there's a good recovery there Alex Albon
06:31taking the final points of the day well done Williams very good strategy left him hanging on 57 laps

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