00:00And the Australian Grand Prix is go! Good reaction time for George Russell,
00:05putting the pressure on Max Verstappen. Will he dive to the inside? Can Verstappen hang on to it?
00:09Russell to the inside! Russell to the lead of the Grand Prix to bring a roar from the crowd.
00:14Down to second place goes Max Verstappen. He's under pressure.
00:17Alonso is all over the back of Hamilton as well.
00:20Russell, then Verstappen, and Hamilton to the inside of Verstappen, nearly banging wheels.
00:25In the background goes Charles Leclerc into the gravel trap and off the road.
00:28It's Russell, then it's Hamilton and a Mercedes 1-2. The pub-sitter is shuffled down to third, David.
00:35Yeah, it'll be a safety car. It'll be a safety car because Charles Leclerc has beached.
00:40George Russell hooked it up nicely on that initial drive. That's exactly what we saw
00:44the Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso do in Saudi.
00:49And then as Julian said there, Max just got a little bit greedy trying to battle and hold on on
00:53the brakes into Turn 1.
00:54And that gave Russell a look. He's bolted out front.
00:57And then Max brakes a little bit conservative. That opens up the door for Hamilton.
01:01Little bit of contact.
01:04Albon off the road, gravel all over the circuit. He's missing a front wing and his perfect weekend
01:10has come undone with the safety car deployed.
01:13Max, you're all okay.
01:15Yeah, fine.
01:17Yeah, it's such a shame.
01:18Such a shame.
01:19Russell has pitted, David.
01:20Russell has pitted from the lead.
01:23So Mercedes, seed track position for George Russell who puts on the hard touch.
01:28Sykes as well.
01:30There's Albon just oversteering his way to the barriers at the quick Turn 6 now.
01:35Scatters gravel all over the circuit and he's perched there right on the racing line.
01:40A little bit scary for him.
01:41Driver error from a driver that's been superb so far this weekend.
01:45A red flag and that completely changes it across the board.
01:51And George Russell has given up track position when everyone now can make a tire change under the red.
01:57Look at this though.
01:58If you're further back, you're almost stopping.
02:00They were.
02:01Oh.
02:02Joe Guan you there having no choice but to overtake a sea of cars.
02:07Yeah.
02:08Look at that.
02:09You've got Magnussen through the gravel.
02:12Yeah, that's just dangerous, isn't it?
02:13You're not expecting it.
02:14And we're racing once again at Albon Park.
02:17Good reaction time for Lewis Hamilton.
02:19Good reaction time for Fernando Alonso who's trying to go around the outside.
02:23Oh, Verstappen can't do it.
02:25Top three as they were as they left the grid.
02:27Moving up into four places.
02:28Peter Gasly dropping down is George Russell but he's made a couple of positions off the line.
02:33And it's very very tight to turn three but Hamilton maintains the lead.
02:36Then it's Verstappen.
02:37Then it's Alonso.
02:38Then we've got Gasly, Russell, Stroll, Hülkenberg, Tsunoda, Norris.
02:42Contact.
02:42Oh, off the road in the background goes Nick de Vries.
02:46This is going to be the chance there.
02:47Verstappen will get DRS.
02:48Oh, this is such a high-speed part of the racetrack.
02:51These two world champions.
02:53These two rivals.
02:55About to go wheel-to-wheel once again surely.
02:57Around the outside goes Max Verstappen.
02:59Can Hamilton fight back?
03:01There's nothing Hamilton can do and Max Verstappen roars past.
03:05Hamilton has to defend to the left and look at that with the DRS.
03:11Three cars not separated by much as we head to turn 11.
03:14Russell falls to the outside line trying to go past the Alpine.
03:17Will he be given room?
03:18He will.
03:19And George Russell completes a tidy pass.
03:22Russell dropping down the order.
03:24Got to be a problem for George Russell.
03:26There is a problem.
03:26He's pulling off in the background of your shots.
03:29And the British driver has a failure.
03:32The one-time race leader.
03:33He's out.
03:35That is a major failure.
03:38He's going to pull off at the end of the pit lane.
03:41He's done it again, Sergio Perez at turn 9.
03:44Normally, as Julian knows, you wouldn't really want to risk it.
03:48There, you would maybe want to wait until the next part.
03:50And wow, that is brave.
03:53Perez on Piastri here.
03:55Same corner.
03:56No, not around the outside.
03:57And around the outside, Sergio Perez.
04:00That red bull is a rocket ship.
04:03Whoa, finally, Carlos Sainz to the inside
04:06and taking fourth place with a late lunge
04:09and a move at turn 3, which has been a long time coming.
04:13Just did the sort of double shuffle.
04:16Looked like he was going to the left
04:17and then pulled it back to the inside.
04:20Gasly probably because, you know,
04:22when you're in the cockpit, you glance in your mirrors
04:23and then, of course, you have to look at where you're going
04:25and almost clipped the back of him.
04:27It's an absolute beauty to move that.
04:30Big moment.
04:31That's got to be Max Verstappen off the road.
04:32There was a noise from the crowd.
04:34We cut to it mid-shot.
04:36Max Verstappen weaving.
04:38He's had a spin.
04:39He's had a spin.
04:39He's had a spin, I'm sure, down at 13.
04:40He was pushing 4.
04:42Let's have another look.
04:43We're in the...
04:44This is turn 12.
04:44We're heading to 13.
04:46And this was very nearly the race getting away from Max Verstappen.
04:50Yeah.
04:50Second-last corner.
04:51Locks it up and onto the grass.
04:53A good front-locking there.
04:54Really.
04:56Understood.
04:57Yeah.
04:58He got away with it.
04:58But that was a heart-in-the-mouth moment.
05:02Can he make the way by on the outside once again?
05:05Hülkenberg placing the car really nicely.
05:08Using the curb.
05:08But there's a chance now for Lando Norris to go to the inside.
05:11Side-by-side they go.
05:12And it's off the road for Hülkenberg.
05:15It's eighth place for Lando Norris.
05:17And it's very, very tricky to keep your foot in on the outside of turn 12.
05:21Here we go.
05:22This time he just gets on the gas a little bit earlier.
05:25Squeezes the throttle.
05:26Gets that overlap which is crucial.
05:28And from that down the inside of 12.
05:30And that's a tire carcass off the back of the house.
05:33That's Kevin Magnusson.
05:35With an ailing car and a yellow flag in sector one.
05:40Suspension's okay.
05:42Oh, he hit...
05:43Did he hit the wall?
05:44And that's what caused it.
05:45Well that leaves the jitters for everyone else.
05:47Just don't hit the wall and you'll be alright.
05:49Red flag for the second time in this Grand Prix.
05:53Can you believe this?
05:56It's two laps to sort out who wins this one.
05:59Immediately Verstappen is chopping ahead of Lewis Hamilton.
06:03Who will try and edge out Fernando Alonso.
06:05It's as you were from the top three.
06:07It's going to be close to contact.
06:09And Fernando Alonso is spun round by Carlos Sainz.
06:11Perez is off the road.
06:12It's Max Verstappen with the lead.
06:14Then it's Hamilton.
06:15And there's a crash at the back of the field.
06:17Into the wall goes Gasly.
06:18And it's absolute chaos on the restart.
06:21Oh, it's deep.
06:21He's deep stroll into the corner.
06:23It's total, total chaos.
06:26It's Verstappen Hamilton.
06:27And then it's Sainz.
06:28Up to fourth goes Hülkenberg.
06:30Red flag again.
06:31Carnage.
06:33Absolute chaos.
06:35Alonso gets a good start.
06:36He's running with Hamilton.
06:37Look behind.
06:37It's actually Sainz and Gasly that are side by side.
06:40Sainz goes in hard with Gasly.
06:42And Gasly goes in deep enough himself.
06:44Sainz tips Alonso into the spin.
06:46Then you've got your two Alpines that must come to blows themselves then afterwards.
06:49So we're going into turn one.
06:51There's the lock up ahead.
06:52There's no idea where to place it.
06:54Gasly rejoining.
06:56And then these two.
06:57Gasly doesn't know his teammates there.
06:59And detonation for the Alpines.
07:01Sainz is looking and he's fighting with Gasly.
07:04They both draw each other in to go in too deep.
07:06And Alonso is looking at switchback time on Hamilton.
07:09Hits the right rear of Alonso.
07:12Rolling start procedure across the line.
07:14For the first time in his Formula One career.
07:17Max Verstappen wins the Australian Grand Prix.
07:21And well done.
07:22Yeah.
07:23Well, it took a while.
07:24But the win is a win.
07:25We take it.
07:27We get it.
07:28Here's the result of the Australian Grand Prix.
07:30Verstappen taking his second win of the season.
07:32And he's first in Australia.
07:34Lewis Hamilton's first podium of the season.
07:36Mercedes' first podium of the season.
07:38In second place.
07:39Fernando Alonso.
07:40All three Grand Prix this year.
07:42In third.
07:43But what drama on that late restart.
07:46It nearly cost him.
07:47Max Verstappen extends his lead in the World Championship.
07:49It's out to 69 points.
07:51Then Sergio Perez.
07:53It's Fernando Alonso with 45.
07:55Lewis Hamilton closing in on him though.
07:57In fourth place.
07:58Sainz finds himself in fifth.
08:00Stroll P6.
08:01And it's Russell, Norris, Hülkenberg,
08:03with Charles Leclerc.
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