Australian Grand Prix Bets
Formula 1 came to Australia in 1985 where it set up home in Adelaide. It remained the venue until 1997 when Melbourne took over the baton and it remains the host city to the first Formula 1 of the season to the present day. This years race is upon this weekend and is the second race of the season following Fernando Alonso's win on Bahrain a couple of weeks ago. Alonso will be well fancied in Australia once again as will his main rivals in Felipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton. Sebastien Vettel for Red Bull is another who is looking dangerous after a good start to the season and looks to be driving a top car.
The race has also been moved to 5pm local time to ensure that the viewing population has the best possible chance to see the race. Formula 1 Supremo Bernie Ecclestone had wanted a night race in Melbourne to enhance world-wide viewing figures but this was opposed in Australia so a compromise was made to move the race to late afternoon.
Australian Grand Prix 2010 Result
The Australian Grand Prix was an absolute cracker with Jenson Button the popular winner of the race as he picked up his first win in his new team. Robert Kubica drove a stormer to pick up the second spot with the Ferrari duo of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso in behind him.
- 1st Jenson Button - McLaren
- 2nd Robert Kubica - Renault
- 3rd Felipe Massa - Ferrari
- 4th Fernando Alonso - Ferrari
- 5th Nico Rosberg - Mercedes
- 6th Lewis Hamilton - McLaren
- 7th Antonio Liuzzi - Force India
- 8th Rubens Barrichello - Williams
- 9th Mark Webber - Red Bull
- 10th Michael Schumacher
The Circuit Details
The track is in central Melbourne's beautiful Albert Park, part of it using closed-off public roads. There are 58 laps with a circuit length of 5.303km and a distance of 307.574km. The Lap record is currently held by Michael Schumacher who clocked 1.24.125 in his Ferrari in 2004.
2009 Australian Grand Prix Result
1 Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 10
2 Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 8
3 Jarno Trulli Toyota 6
4 Timo Glock Toyota 5
5 Fernando Alonso Renault 4
6 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 3
7 Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2
8 Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1
2008 Australian Grand Prix Result
The 2008 race was a chaotic affair with the safety car deployed on no less than 3 occasions but it was Lewis Hamilton who won his first Australian Grand Prix.
1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes
2 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber
3 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota
4 Fernando Alonso Renault
5 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes
6 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota
7 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari
8 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 53 Engine