F1 technical boss Ross Brawn believes the new aero rules and point for fastest lap, both helped add to the spectacle of the season opener. read more »

Carlos Sainz Jr. suffered a torrid McLaren Formula 1 team debut at the Australian Grand Prix, retiring on lap nine with a power unit fire. read more »

Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen moved to play down the importance of their late-race battle to secure the bonus point for fastest lap at the Australian Grand Prix, but both... read more »

Despite Mercedes boss Toto Wolff favouring a cautious approach to the first race, Australia race winner Valtteri Bottas was determined to leave with F1's newest prize. read more »

Renault team principal Cyril Abiteboul has called for amendments to be made to the Albert Park pit straight to avoid a repeat of the incident which cost Daniel Ricciardo his... read more »

Daniel Ricciardo was forced into early retirement after failing to recover from damage caused during the first lap read more »

After telling Charles Leclerc to hold station behind Sebastian Vettel in Australia, Ferrari decided not to give its young wonderkid a chance to go for the new championship... read more »

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 »