race · australian

Hulkenberg's brilliant P9 looks impressive until you see he gained seven places from a safety car and finished two laps down.

Leclerc carved 0.312s per lap out of Sainz in Sector 2 and it made zero difference to the result. Ferrari's early stop killed him.

Perez was already 5 seconds behind before Verstappen's car broke — and that was with no traffic, no mistakes, and identical tyres.