Race · Round 1 of 21 · 25 March 2018

2018 Australian Grand Prix

Sebastian Vettel won for Ferrari from 3rd on the grid at Albert Park. 5 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 23 °C, 5.1 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: Albert ParkMelbourne, Australia
Winner: Sebastian VettelFerrari
Pole: Sir Lewis Hamilton
Fastest lap: Daniel Ricciardo
Entries: 2015 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	SF71H	3	58	Finished	25
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W09	1	58	Finished	18
3	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	SF71H	2	58	Finished	15
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	RB14	8	58	Finished	12	fastest lap
5	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	MCL33	10	58	Finished	10
6	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB14	4	58	Finished	8
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	R.S.18	7	58	Finished	6
8	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	F1 W09	15	58	Finished	4
9	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	MCL33	11	58	Finished	2
10	Carlos Sainz	Renault	R.S.18	9	58	Finished	1
11	Sergio Perez	Force India	VJM11	12	58	Finished	0
12	Esteban Ocon	Force India	VJM11	14	58	Finished	0
13	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	C37	18	58	Finished	0
14	Lance Stroll	Williams	FW41	13	58	Finished	0
15	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR13	16	57	Finished	0
DNF	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	VF-18	6	24	Wheel	0
DNF	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	VF-18	5	22	Wheel	0
DNF	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR13	20	13	Engine	0
DNF	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	C37	17	5	Hydraulics	0
DNF	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	FW41	19	4	Brakes	0

F1DB layout melbourne-1 · 5.303 km · 16 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sebastian Vettel	3	1	58
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	2	58
Kimi Raikkonen	2	3	58
Daniel Ricciardo	8	4	58
Fernando Alonso	10	5	58
Max Verstappen	4	6	58
Nico Hulkenberg	7	7	58
Valtteri Bottas	15	8	58
Stoffel Vandoorne	11	9	58
Carlos Sainz	9	10	58
Sergio Perez	12	11	58
Esteban Ocon	14	12	58
Charles Leclerc	18	13	58
Lance Stroll	13	14	58
Brendon Hartley	16	15	57
Romain Grosjean	6	DNF	24
Kevin Magnussen	5	DNF	22
Pierre Gasly	20	DNF	13
Marcus Ericsson	17	DNF	5
Sergey Sirotkin	19	DNF	4

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:22.824	1:22.051	1:21.164	—	0 m	—
2	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:23.096	1:22.507	1:21.828	+0.664	43 m	+0.664
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:23.348	1:21.944	1:21.838	+0.674	44 m	+0.010
4	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:23.483	1:22.416	1:21.879	+0.715	47 m	+0.041
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:23.494	1:22.897	1:22.152	+0.988	65 m	+0.273
6	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:23.909	1:23.300	1:23.187	+2.023	132 m	+1.035
7	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:23.671	1:23.468	1:23.339	+2.175	142 m	+0.152
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:23.782	1:23.544	1:23.532	+2.368	155 m	+0.193
9	Carlos Sainz	Renault	55	1:23.529	1:23.061	1:23.577	+2.413	158 m	+0.045
10	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:23.686	1:22.089	—	—	9 m	—
11	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:23.597	1:23.692	—	—	113 m	—
12	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	2	1:24.073	1:23.853	—	—	124 m	—
13	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:24.344	1:24.005	—	—	133 m	—
14	Lance Stroll	Williams	18	1:24.464	1:24.230	—	—	148 m	—
15	Esteban Ocon	Force India	31	1:24.503	1:24.786	—	—	184 m	—
16	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	28	1:24.532	—	—	—	109 m	—
17	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:24.556	—	—	—	111 m	—
18	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	16	1:24.636	—	—	—	116 m	—
19	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	35	1:24.922	—	—	—	134 m	—
20	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	10	1:25.295	—	—	—	158 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Sebastian Vettel	1	58	1	26	21.8
Sir Lewis Hamilton	2	58	1	19	21.8
Kimi Raikkonen	3	58	1	18	21.4
Daniel Ricciardo	4	58	1	26	21.4
Fernando Alonso	5	58	1	26	22.6
Max Verstappen	6	58	1	21	21.0
Nico Hulkenberg	7	58	1	24	22.6
Valtteri Bottas	8	58	1	25	21.7
Stoffel Vandoorne	9	58	1	25	22.5
Carlos Sainz	10	58	1	22	23.9
Sergio Perez	11	58	1	24	22.3
Esteban Ocon	12	58	1	23	21.9
Charles Leclerc	13	58	2	20, 27	22.2, 22.8
Lance Stroll	14	58	2	25, 29	25.5, 21.4
Brendon Hartley	15	57	2	1, 22	22.2, 22.3
Romain Grosjean	DNF	24	1	24	23.1
Kevin Magnussen	DNF	22	1	22	22.0
Pierre Gasly	DNF	13	0	None recorded	—
Marcus Ericsson	DNF	5	0	None recorded	—
Sergey Sirotkin	DNF	4	0	None recorded	—

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Sebastian Vettel	1 · 3	2 · 1	19 · 26	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Sebastian Vettel	2 · 3	3 · 1	18 · 26	Kimi Raikkonen	Swapped places
Sebastian Vettel · Max Verstappen	3 · 4	1 · 6	26 · 21	Max Verstappen	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Kimi Raikkonen	1 · 2	2 · 3	19 · 18	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Daniel Ricciardo	2 · 8	3 · 4	18 · 26	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Daniel Ricciardo	7 · 8	7 · 4	24 · 26	Nico Hulkenberg	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Fernando Alonso	8 · 10	4 · 5	26 · 26	Same lap	Kept their order
Daniel Ricciardo · Carlos Sainz	8 · 9	4 · 10	26 · 22	Carlos Sainz	Kept their order
Max Verstappen · Fernando Alonso	4 · 10	6 · 5	21 · 26	Max Verstappen	Swapped places
Carlos Sainz · Fernando Alonso	9 · 10	10 · 5	22 · 26	Carlos Sainz	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Stoffel Vandoorne	10 · 11	5 · 9	26 · 25	Stoffel Vandoorne	Kept their order
Max Verstappen · Nico Hulkenberg	4 · 7	6 · 7	21 · 24	Max Verstappen	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Valtteri Bottas	7 · 15	7 · 8	24 · 25	Nico Hulkenberg	Kept their order
Stoffel Vandoorne · Valtteri Bottas	11 · 15	9 · 8	25 · 25	Same lap	Swapped places
Esteban Ocon · Valtteri Bottas	14 · 15	12 · 8	23 · 25	Esteban Ocon	Swapped places
Valtteri Bottas · Brendon Hartley	15 · 16	8 · 15	25 · 1	Brendon Hartley	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Stoffel Vandoorne	9 · 11	10 · 9	22 · 25	Carlos Sainz	Swapped places
Stoffel Vandoorne · Sergio Perez	11 · 12	9 · 11	25 · 24	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Sergio Perez	9 · 12	10 · 11	22 · 24	Carlos Sainz	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Esteban Ocon	12 · 14	11 · 12	24 · 23	Esteban Ocon	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Lance Stroll	12 · 13	11 · 14	24 · 25	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Lance Stroll · Esteban Ocon	13 · 14	14 · 12	25 · 23	Esteban Ocon	Swapped places
Esteban Ocon · Charles Leclerc	14 · 18	12 · 13	23 · 20	Charles Leclerc	Kept their order
Lance Stroll · Charles Leclerc	13 · 18	14 · 13	25 · 20	Charles Leclerc	Swapped places
Lance Stroll · Brendon Hartley	13 · 16	14 · 15	25 · 1	Brendon Hartley	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:24.026	—	0 m	—	27
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:24.577	+0.551	35 m	+0.551	29
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:24.771	+0.745	47 m	+0.194	26
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:24.875	+0.849	54 m	+0.104	23
5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:24.995	+0.969	61 m	+0.120	22
6	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:25.063	+1.037	65 m	+0.068	25
7	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:25.730	+1.704	108 m	+0.667	24
8	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:25.896	+1.870	118 m	+0.166	16
9	Carlos Sainz	Renault	55	1:25.922	+1.896	120 m	+0.026	23
10	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	2	1:26.482	+2.456	155 m	+0.560	15
11	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	10	1:26.494	+2.468	156 m	+0.012	25
12	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	35	1:26.536	+2.510	158 m	+0.042	25
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:26.583	+2.557	161 m	+0.047	25
14	Esteban Ocon	Force India	31	1:26.605	+2.579	163 m	+0.022	30
15	Lance Stroll	Williams	18	1:26.636	+2.610	165 m	+0.031	30
16	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:26.767	+2.741	173 m	+0.131	26
17	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:27.035	+3.009	190 m	+0.268	13
18	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	28	1:27.745	+3.719	235 m	+0.710	16
19	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:27.964	+3.938	249 m	+0.219	28
20	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	16	1:28.853	+4.827	305 m	+0.889	28

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:23.931	—	0 m	—	35
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:24.058	+0.127	8 m	+0.127	34
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:24.159	+0.228	14 m	+0.101	34
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:24.214	+0.283	18 m	+0.055	39
5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:24.451	+0.520	33 m	+0.237	38
6	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:24.648	+0.717	45 m	+0.197	34
7	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:24.721	+0.790	50 m	+0.073	28
8	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:25.200	+1.269	80 m	+0.479	28
9	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:25.246	+1.315	83 m	+0.046	30
10	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	2	1:25.285	+1.354	86 m	+0.039	34
11	Carlos Sainz	Renault	55	1:25.390	+1.459	92 m	+0.105	35
12	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:25.413	+1.482	94 m	+0.023	30
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:25.463	+1.532	97 m	+0.050	35
14	Lance Stroll	Williams	18	1:25.543	+1.612	102 m	+0.080	32
15	Esteban Ocon	Force India	31	1:25.888	+1.957	124 m	+0.345	33
16	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	28	1:25.925	+1.994	126 m	+0.037	41
17	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	10	1:25.945	+2.014	127 m	+0.020	39
18	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	35	1:25.974	+2.043	129 m	+0.029	37
19	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:26.814	+2.883	182 m	+0.840	31
20	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	16	1:26.815	+2.884	182 m	+0.001	35

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:26.067	—	0 m	—	15
2	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:28.499	+2.432	150 m	+2.432	13
3	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:28.890	+2.823	174 m	+0.391	14
4	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:31.680	+5.613	346 m	+2.790	8
5	Carlos Sainz	Renault	55	1:33.172	+7.105	438 m	+1.492	11
6	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:34.043	+7.976	491 m	+0.871	14
7	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:34.174	+8.107	500 m	+0.131	14
8	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:34.225	+8.158	503 m	+0.051	7
9	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	2	1:34.233	+8.166	503 m	+0.008	15
10	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:34.298	+8.231	507 m	+0.065	13
11	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	10	1:34.990	+8.923	550 m	+0.692	16
12	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	28	1:35.438	+9.371	577 m	+0.448	16
13	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	35	1:35.589	+9.522	587 m	+0.151	16
14	Lance Stroll	Williams	18	1:35.828	+9.761	601 m	+0.239	8
15	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:36.171	+10.104	623 m	+0.343	6
16	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	16	1:36.448	+10.381	640 m	+0.277	12
17	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:36.807	+10.740	662 m	+0.359	7
18	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:38.482	+12.415	765 m	+1.675	8
19	Esteban Ocon	Force India	31	—	—	—	—	1
20	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	—	—	—	—	1

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

3 more photographs

Where this comes from

Round: 1 of 2018
Grand Prix: Australian Grand Prix
Dates: 25 Mar 2018
Layout raced: Original layout · 5.303 km · 16 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.