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Mercedes have vowed to bounce back in Bahrain next month after throwing away Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix to Ferrari, with team boss Toto Wolff admitting it was tough to take. Sebastian Vettel got the jump on world champion Lewis Hamilton as Mercedes blundered their calculations on the Ferrari ace's pit stop under Virtual Safety Car…
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Sebastian Vettel won a thrilling duel with world champion Lewis Hamilton to steal the season-opening Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne on Sunday. The four-time world champion got the jump on the Mercedes ace off a miscalculation on the pit stop under Virtual Safety Car conditions and held off Hamilton for his second straight win in Melbourne and third overall.
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Lewis Hamilton has won three Formula 1 Drivers’ Championships in the last four seasons and the only person to beat the Mercedes driver was his former teammate and 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg. Rosberg won the title in 2016 despite Hamilton winning one race more than him and it was due to his consistency during the…
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AFP Sport looks at five talking points ahead of the 2018 Formula One season, which starts this week in Melbourne: - Ferrari threat - Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari again loom as the major threat to Lewis Hamilton-led Mercedes's bid for a fifth-straight constructors' title. The Italian giants, who last won the teams crown in 2008, were…
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LONDON - Sebastian Vettel's task with Ferrari this season is as easy to say as it is hard to achieve: bring the Formula One world championship back to Maranello and deny Mercedes a fifth in a row. The oldest, most glamorous and successful team on the starting grid came close last year, with their German driver…
