Overall, the race itself was a good race to watch from start to finish. Current Formula 1 World Champion Max Verstappen was on pole for Sunday's race ahead of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton.
Russell took the lead at the start ahead of Hamilton and Verstappen. Until lap 7, Alexander Albon lost control of his car and crashed heavily at turn seven, causing the safety car to be called out; Russell changed his tyres for fresh hard compounds, allowing his teammate Lewis Hamilton to inherit the lead. The race was red-flagged to allow marshals to clean up the debris left by Albon's car and gravel that had been strewn on track. As Russell just changed their tyres in the safety car period, this meant they lost out, as rivals were able to change their tyres during the stoppage.
Hamilton kept his lead at the second restart, but would soon lose the lead into turn 9 as Verstappen overtook him with DRS on lap 12. The race was red-flagged once again on lap 55 after Kevin Magnussen's right-rear wheel made contact with the wall at turn two, damaging his rear suspension and causing the tyre to detach.
The race was restarted again with Verstappen keeping his lead. As the cars reached turn 1 comes chaos, Carlos Sainz, Jr. pushed Fernando Alonso into a spin, the Alpines of Gasly and Esteban Ocon ended their races in the wall after a heavy collision, and Nyck de Vries and Logan Sargeant found themselves in the gravel and out of the race; Stroll, despite also running into the gravel, managed to recover his car and continue the race. The race was red-flagged for a third time.
The race resumed via rolling start at the end of lap 58, which coincided with the checkered flag being shown at the finish line; Max Verstappen win this seasons Australian Grand Prix for Max Verstappen second race win of the season.
While, Sir Lewis Hamilton finished in second place in the Mercedes, Hamilton was two tenths of a second behind Verstappen at the end.
Meanwhile, Fernando Alonso finished in third place in the Aston Martin to complete the podium, Alonso was eight tenths of a second behind Verstappen at the end of the fifty-eight lap race.
Highlights of the race below, enjoy.
Rate the Teams and Drivers
Red Bull Racing - 9
Max Verstappen - 10 (pole, race win)
Sergio Pérez - 9 (finished fifth, fastest lap)
Ferrari - 6
Charles Leclerc - 5 (DNF, Collision with Stroll)
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 7 (finished twelfth)
Mercedes - 8
Lewis Hamilton - 9 (finished second)
George Russell - 8 (DNF, Engine)
Alpine - 7
Esteban Ocon - 5 (finished fourteenth/DNF, two laps down/Collision with Gasly)
Pierre Gasly - 9 (finished thirteenth/DNF, two laps down/Collision with Ocon)
McLaren - 7
Lando Norris - 7 (finished sixth)
Oscar Piastri - 7 (finished eighth)
Alfa Romeo - 6
Valtteri Bottas - 6 (finished eleventh)
Guanyu Zhou - 6 (finished ninth)
Aston Martin - 8
Fernando Alonso - 9 (finished third)
Lance Stroll - 8 (finished fourth)
Haas - 6
Kevin Magnussen - 5 (finished seventeenth/DNF, six laps down/Accident)
Nico Hülkenberg - 8 (finished seventh)
AlphaTauri - 5
Yuki Tsunoda - 6 (finished tenth)
Nyck de Vries - 5 (finished fifteenth/DNF, two laps down/Collision with Sargeant)
Williams - 6
Alexander Albon - 7 (DNF, Accident)
Logan Sargeant - 5 (finished sixteenth/DNF, two laps down/Collision with de Vries)
Next stop Baku, Azerbaijan for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in four weeks time.
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