#F1 2017 AUSTRALIA FULL#

#F1 2017 AUSTRALIA FULL#

With just one seat left available, Mercedes brought Valtteri Bottas to the team to partner Lewis Hamilton, therefore leaving Williams with the opportunity to invite Felipe Massa back and partner Lance Stroll, while Stoffel Vandoorne, who replaced Jenson Button at McLaren, started his first full season after he competed at the previous year's Bahrain Grand Prix to fill in for Fernando Alonso at the time. Hamilton came home in second, and his teammate Valtteri Bottas completed the podium in his first race for Mercedes.Īfter he won his first championship at the 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Nico Rosberg retired from Formula One on 2 December 2016, which marked the first time a reigning champion would not take part since Alain Prost in 1994. Hamilton kept the lead going into the corner, but after he got stuck behind Max Verstappen following his pit stop, Vettel took the effective lead and carried on to take his forty-third career victory, also his and Ferrari's first win since the 2015 Singapore Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton took pole position, beating Sebastian Vettel's pole position time from 2011, and matching Ayrton Senna's six poles at the Australian Grand Prix. Nico Rosberg was the defending winner, though he did not compete due to his retirement. It was held between 24 March and 26 March 2017. The 2017 Australian Grand Prix (officially the 2017 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix) was the first race of the 2017 Formula One season, the 33rd time the Australian Grand Prix was held on the Formula One calendar, and the 22nd time it was held at the Albert Park Circuit.

F1 2017 australia