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2015 Australian Grand Prix
Race 1 of 19 in the 2015 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date 15 March 2015 (2015-03-15)
Official name 2015 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix
Location Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia
Course Temporary street circuit
Course length 5.303 km (3.295 miles)
Distance 58 laps, 307.574 km (191.118 miles)
Weather Clear with maximum ambient temperatures reaching 17.9 °C (64.2 °F) during the day. Winds south to southwesterly reaching a maximum of 19 kilometres per hour (12 mph).[1]
Pole position
Driver
Mercedes
Time 1:26.327
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
Time 1:30.945 on lap 50
Podium
First
Mercedes
Second
Mercedes
Third
Ferrari
Lap leaders

The 2015 Australian Grand Prix (formally known as the 2015 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix)[2] was a Formula One motor race that was held on 15 March 2015 in Melbourne. The race was contested over fifty-eight laps of the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit and was the first round of the 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship.[3][4] The race marked the seventy-ninth race in the combined history of the Australian Grand Prix—which dates back to the 100 Miles Road Race of 1928—and the twentieth time the event was held at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit.[5]

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg was the defending race winner.[6] His team-mate, Lewis Hamilton started the race from pole, his fourth at the circuit and a record for the venue.[7] Hamilton led home Rosberg in a Mercedes 1–2 finish, with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel completing the podium in his first start with the team.[8][9]

Report

Background

Driver changes

Two weeks prior to the race it was announced that McLaren's Fernando Alonso would miss the Grand Prix due to concussion injuries suffered during the pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Doctors advised Alonso to not race as it could cause further damage, and his place was taken by reserve driver Kevin Magnussen,[10] who achieved a second place finish at the event in 2014.

Following a tumultuous pre-season in which they went through a period of administration and were saved by late investment,[11] Manor Marussia arrived in Melbourne with a car that had passed its mandatory crash tests, but had completed no testing. Formula Renault 3.5 Series drivers Will Stevens and Roberto Merhi were announced as their drivers, with Merhi signed on a one-race deal.[12] However, the team did not participate in any practice sessions and subsequently failed to set a qualifying time, leaving the field at eighteen cars for the race.

Legal action against Sauber

A week before the start of the Grand Prix weekend, Dutch driver Giedo van der Garde launched legal action against Sauber before the Supreme Court of Victoria, to enforce a contract he entered into in June 2014 to drive for the team during the 2015 season.[13] This action was based on an award that van der Garde obtained on 2 March 2015 through international arbitration in Switzerland, which he initiated after the team announced in November 2014 that their 2015 drivers would instead be Marcus Ericsson and Felipe Nasr.[14] On 11 March 2015, van der Garde succeeded by obtaining court orders compelling Sauber to permit him to drive in Melbourne. On the same day, Sauber publicly announced that they would not compromise the safety of the team or other drivers by putting van der Garde in the car, pointing out that the C34 chassis had been tailored to fit Ericsson and Nasr, and appealed the orders made against them.[15][16]

The appeal was heard and dismissed the following day. As part of its argument, Sauber submitted that van der Garde's contract had been terminated by the team in February with the approval of the FIA's Contract Recognition Board and that van der Garde violated confidentiality clauses of the contract by discussing it with the media.[17] Lawyers representing Ericsson and Nasr further argued that van der Garde had not followed due process by failing to give their clients prior notice of his legal action until after it was instituted.[17] The court upheld the previous orders to permit van der Garde to participate the race,[18] with the hearing adjourned until the following day to hear arguments on contempt of court proceedings launched by van der Garde's legal team against Sauber's team principal, Monisha Kaltenborn.[19]

An entry list published by the FIA two hours after the court passed its initial judgement on the Thursday before the race listed Ericsson and Nasr as Sauber's drivers following pre-event scrutineering.[20] Neither driver took to the circuit during the first practice session[21] due to the risk of the team assets being seized for not obeying with court orders.[14] Nevertheless, based on media speculation about Bernie Ecclestone's intervention to avoid further negative publicity on the sport,[22] Ericsson and Nasr did participate in Friday afternoon's second practice session.[23] On Saturday, 14 March 2015, the dispute reached a temporary resolution thanks to van der Garde announcing that he would forego racing in Melbourne,[24] with a view to finding a more permanent solution in the future.[25] The Sauber team and its new drivers for 2015 were thus able to complete Saturday's qualifying session and a point-scoring race on the Sunday.

Tyres

Pirelli announced they would be supplying teams with the white-banded medium compound tyre as the prime selection and the yellow-banded soft compound as the option selection for the event.[26]

Post-race

Because Manor Marussia failed to notify the stewards of their inability to field a car, the team was summoned by the FIA to explain why they did not participate in qualifying.[27] However, the hearing provided sufficient evidence to the FIA's satisfaction that the team would have been unable to field their cars, even if they had violated curfew. Despite this, the FIA subsequently elected to have Manor cover their freight charges to and from Australia, costs normally covered by Formula One management.[28][29]

Classification

Qualifying

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Q3 Grid
1 44 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton         Mercedes 1:28.586 1:26.894 1:26.327 1
2 6 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:28.906 1:27.097 1:26.921 2
3 19 Brazil Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 1:29.246 1:27.895 1:27.718 3
4 5 Germany Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1:29.307 1:27.742 1:27.757 4
5 7 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:29.754 1:27.807 1:27.790 5
6 77 Finland Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 1:29.641 1:27.796 1:28.087 6
7 3 Australia Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault 1:29.788 1:28.679 1:28.329 7
8 55 Spain Carlos Sainz Jr. Toro Rosso-Renault 1:29.597 1:28.601 1:28.510 8
9 8 France Romain Grosjean Lotus-Mercedes 1:29.537 1:28.589 1:28.560 9
10 13 Venezuela Pastor Maldonado        Lotus-Mercedes 1:29.847 1:28.726 1:29.480 10
11 12 Brazil Felipe Nasr Sauber-Ferrari 1:30.430 1:28.800 11
12 33 Netherlands Max Verstappen Toro Rosso-Renault 1:29.248 1:28.868 12
13 26 Russia Daniil Kvyat Red Bull-Renault 1:30.402 1:29.070 13
14 27 Germany Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1:29.651 1:29.208 14
15 11 Mexico Sergio Pérez Force India-Mercedes 1:29.990 1:29.209 15
16 9 Sweden Marcus Ericsson Sauber-Ferrari 1:31.376 16
17 22 United Kingdom Jenson Button McLaren-Honda 1:31.422 17
18 20 Denmark Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Honda 1:32.037 18
107% time: 1:34.787
DNP 28 United Kingdom Will Stevens Marussia-Ferrari no time
DNP 98 Spain Roberto Merhi Marussia-Ferrari no time
Source:[7]

Race

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts.
1 44 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 58 1:31:54.067 1 25
2 6 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes 58 +1.360 2 18
3 5 Germany Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 58 +34.523 4 15
4 19 Brazil Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 58 +38.196 3 12
5 12 Brazil Felipe Nasr Sauber-Ferrari 58 +1:35.149 10 10
6 3 Australia Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault 57 +1 Lap 6 8
7 27 Germany Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 57 +1 Lap 13 6
8 9 Sweden Marcus Ericsson Sauber-Ferrari 57 +1 Lap 15 4
9 55 Spain Carlos Sainz Jr. Toro Rosso-Renault 57 +1 Lap 7 2
10 11 Mexico Sergio Pérez Force India-Mercedes 57 +1 Lap 14 1
11 22 United Kingdom Jenson Button McLaren-Honda 56 +2 Laps 16
Ret 7 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 40 Wheel 5
Ret 33 Netherlands Max Verstappen Toro Rosso-Renault 32 Engine 11
Ret 8 France Romain Grosjean Lotus-Mercedes 1 Power loss 8
Ret 13 Venezuela Pastor Maldonado        Lotus-Mercedes 0 Accident 9
DNS 26 Russia Daniil Kvyat Red Bull-Renault 0 Gearbox —1
DNS 20 Denmark Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Honda 0 Engine —1
DNS 77 Finland Valtteri Bottas        Williams-Mercedes 0 Injury —2
Source:[8]

Notes:

  • ^1 – Both Kvyat's and Magnussen's cars failed on the way from the pitlane to the starting grid.[30]
  • ^2 – As Valtteri Bottas was unable to start the race due to a back injury suffered during qualifying and spending the night at the hospital without being cleared to race by the FIA,[31] all cars behind him moved up one place to close the gap.

Standings after the race

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

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  31. ^ "Bottas declared unfit to race in Australian GP". Williams Grand Prix Engineering. Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited. 15 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2015.

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