Australian GP Qualifying: McLaren 1-2 as Hamilton and Button shares top spots on the grid

Lewis Hamilton and McLaren team mate Jenson Button share the front row of the grid for the Australian Grand Prix.

A scorching lap of 1.24.922 put Hamilton clear of his team mate while Lotus’s Romain Grosjean took a surprise third.

This was despite team mate Kimi Raikkonen being eliminated in the first part of qualifying who missed the cut by a tenth of a second.

Both Ferraris missed out on the top ten and the Red Bulls with last years champion Vettel, consigned to the third row of the grid in position 5 and 6.

Qualifying Results (Australian GP)
1. Lewis Hamilton [ McLaren-Mercedes ] 1m24.922s
2. Jenson Button [ McLaren-Mercedes ] 1m25.074s
3. Romain Grosjean [ Lotus-Renault ] 1m25.302s
4. Michael Schumacher [ Mercedes ] 1m25.336s
5. Mark Webber [ Red Bull-Renault ] 1m25.651s + 0.729
6. Sebastian Vettel [ Red Bull-Renault ] 1m25.668s + 0.746
7. Nico Rosberg [ Mercedes ] 1m25.686s + 0.764
8. Pastor Maldonado [ Williams-Renault ] 1m25.908s
9. Nico Hulkenberg [ Force India-Mercedes ] 1m26.451s
10. Daniel Ricciardo [ Toro Rosso-Ferrari ] No time
11. Jean-Eric Vergne [ Toro Rosso-Ferrari ] 1m26.429s
12. Fernando Alonso [ Ferrari ] 1m26.4942
13. Kamui Kobayashi [ Sauber-Ferrari ] 1m26.590s
14. Bruno Senna [ Williams-Renault ] 1m26.663s
15. Paul di Resta [ Force India-Mercedes ] 1m27.086s
16. Felipe Massa [ Ferrari ] 1m27.497s
17. Sergio Perez [ Sauber-Ferrari ] No time
18. Kimi Raikkonen [ Lotus-Renault ] 1m27.758s
19. Heikki Kovalainen [ Caterham-Renault ] 1m28.679s
20. Vitaly Petrov [ Caterham-Renault ] 1m29.018s
21. Timo Glock [ Marussia-Cosworth ] 1m30.923s
22. Charles Pic [ Marussia-Cosworth ] 1m31.670s
23. Pedro de la Rosa [ HRT-Cosworth ] 1m33.495s
24. Narain Karthikeyan [ HRT-Cosworth ] 1m33.643s

Source [f1fanatic]

 

SPOILER ALERT

1. Jenson Button (GBr-McLaren) in u ' "
2. Sebastian Vettel (Dui-Red Bull) op 2"1
3. Lewis Hamilton (GBr-McLaren) 4"0
4. Mark Webber (Aus-Red Bull) 4"5
5. Fernando Alonso (Spa-Ferrari) 21"5
6. Kamui Kobayashi (Jap-Sauber) 36"7
7. Kimi Räikkönen (Fin-Lotus) 38"0
8. Sergio Perez (Mex-Sauber) 39"4
9. Daniel Ricciardo (Aus-Toro Rosso) 39"5
10. Paul Di Resta (GBr-Force India) 39"7
11. Jean-Eric Vergne (Fra-Toro Rosso) 39"8
12. Niko Rosberg (Dui-Mercedes) 57"6
13. Pastor Maldonado (Ven-Williams) viel uit
14. Timo Glock (Dui-Marussia) 1 lap
15. Charles Pic (Fra-Marussia) 5 laps
16. Bruno Senna (Bra-Williams) 6 laps

 

It looks like it's gonna be McLaren Vs. Red Bull this year...

Kimi Raikkonen finished 7th, he might surprise a lot of people this year.

Massa and Schumi didn't finish.

 

Well done McLaren!

But the season has just started and Vettels top tracks are still to come!


I have mixed feelings about Ferrari though,..they finally have to deliver imo!

 

Good race but McLaren really needed to finish 1-2 to put some distance between then and SV/Red Bull. SV isn't much off the pace of the MP4's and Red Bull will have plenty of time to develop the car!

 

mclaren vs redbull are intial thoughts, lets see ho it goes by the 4th race and then my judgement might change.

I think the top 5 positions :

not in order:

Top 6 based on today

Jenson,Lewis,Vettel, Alonso,Schumacher, Raikonen.