Toto Wolff "forbade" his drivers from going for the fastest lap in the Australian Grand Prix but Valtteri Bottas bagged it anyway, wanting the 26 points. read more »

Toto Wolff reveals that Valtteri Bottas was under instructions not to go for the fastest lap in the Australian Grand Prix. read more »

Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says his drivers ignored pre-race instructions to not chase the new bonus point for fastest lap in the Australian Grand Prix read more »

Toto Wolff confirmed that Valtteri Bottas and his race engineer Riccardo Musconi directly disobeyed his instructions not to chase the bonus point for the fastest lap at the... read more »

Ferrari team principal said it would have been an unnecessary risk to pit Charles Leclerc in an attempt to hunt the fastest lap bonus point at the Australian Grand Prix, while... read more »

Mattia Binotto explains Ferrari's decision not to bring Charles Leclerc in for a free pit stop late on so he could try and set the fastest lap of the race. read more »

Valtteri Bottas labelled his Australian Grand Prix victory as the greatest race of his career, having started his 2019 campaign with an utterly dominant win in Melbourne.... read more »

Valtteri Bottas took maximum points from the season-opening Australian Grand Prix to take top spot in the drivers' standings for the first time in his F1 career. Not only... read more »

Drama at the start in Melbourne, as the 2019 F1 season gets under way at Albert Park... For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Like F1® on Facebook:... read more »

Valtteri Bottas opens his 2019 Formula 1 account with victory and the fastest lap point in the Australian Grand Prix. read more »

Valtteri Bottas enjoyed an impeccable race at Melbourne, starting his season with 26 points after also recording the fastest lap of the race. Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen... read more »

In theory, the quickest strategy for the 58-lap Australian Grand Prix is a two stopper, but the chances are most drivers will stick to one stop. read more »

The Dutchman split the two Ferrari drivers during Q3 having initially been lucky to escape Q1 thanks to an improvement on his second lap of his only run. read more »

After smashing the Albert Park lap record by 0.6s and beating Ferrari by 0.7s, it was not immediately clear to Mercedes how it had managed to gain such a massive advantage on... read more »

Charles Leclerc gave a scathing assessment of his own Q3 performance after qualifying fifth for the Australian Grand Prix. Leclerc was P1 in the first section of qualifying,... read more »

Red Bull motorsport advisor Dr Helmut Marko apologised to Pierre Gasly after the Frenchman was eliminated from Q1 at the Australian Grand Prix as he sat in the pits. Red Bull... read more »

Lewis Hamilton insists Mercedes were unaware that they were capable of delivering such a dominant performance during qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix. Hamilton took... read more »

Lewis Hamilton matched two all-time Formula 1 records held by Michael Schumacher and took one for himself by taking pole position for the Australian Grand Prix on Saturday. The... read more »

Lewis Hamilton converted Mercedes' dominance into pole position for the Australian Grand Prix, as pre-season favourites Ferrari were blown away by the reigning champions... read more »

McLaren's Carlos Sainz caught out by Robert Kubica's puncture on final flying lap read more »

Our race pace looks consistent based on the long runs we did on Friday, but this race is all about track position so a good opening lap will play a big part in our final... read more »

Today's sessions have again highlighted how very tight the midfield pack is, with small differences in lap time having quite big effects on final positions. read more »

Kimi Raikkonen was dissapointed with his qualifying performance for the Australian GP, believing there was more pace in the car. read more »

Go onboard with Lewis Hamilton for the lap that put on pole in Australia - and broke the track record around Albert Park For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Like... read more »

Charles Leclerc left disappointed with himself after a mistake on his final qualifying lap left him fifth on the grid in Melbourne.  read more »