top 10Cast: Verstappen, Hamilton, Alonso, Stroll, Perez, Norris, Hulkenberg, Piastri, Zhou, Tsunoda

The race was held as part of the third Grand Prix of the Formula 1 season in Australia.

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen won the race and Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso rounded out the top 3.

Note that Verstappen, who started from the pole position, did not start the race very well and missed the duet of Mercedes George Russell and Lewis Hamilton. Unfortunately we didn’t see a long fight between Red Bull and the two Mercedes as first yellow flags were raised due to the retirement of Charles Leclerc, then red flags due to the accident of Alex Albon. Russell was unlucky here, leading, but pitted just ahead of the red flags and dropped to 7th, while Lewis and Max pit for free. And shortly after the race restarted in Russell’s car, the engine burned out and the Briton completed the stage.

After the restart, Verstappen quickly overtook Hamilton and steadily increased his lead. It looked like Max would win quietly, but with three laps left, Kevin Magnussen’s crash resulted in red flags.

At the restart, Verstappen and Hamilton held their positions, but Carlos Sainz slammed into third-placed Alonso (for which he was penalized by 5 seconds to the final protocol and flew out of the top 10). All this led to chaos and the unexpected departure of a number of pilots, including Pierre Gasly in the 5th Alpine. As a result, the direction of the race announced yet another red flag, but now that there was no lap to the end, it was necessary to decide what to do next.

It was decided that the remaining cars in the race would continue one more lap under the safety car in the order they had started before (excluding those eliminated in the last event).

This earned McLaren points for Hulkenberg, Zhou and Tsunoda, as well as finishing in the top 10 twice for the season’s first points.