Hamilton brings home the bacon at Melbourne!

Lewis Hamilton’s win for McLaren at the Australian Grand Prix almost went unnoticed at Albert Park this afternoon – and that tells you just what sort of race it was.The 23 year-old Briton dominated an event characterised by safety car interventions following a series of dramatic incidents that all happened behind him. Hamilton would build a lead, lose it behind the safety car, build it again only to lose it again. But if he was impressive here a year ago, he was even better on Sunday, never losing his composure as he took the lead of the world championship with surprising ease. If it was a great day for McLaren, it was a disaster for Ferrari. Felipe Massa spun on the first lap and was then involved in an incident with Red Bull’s David Coulthard before retiring, and Kimi Raikkonen, having benefited from the second safety car intervention, slid off the road trying to pass McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen and undid all that work. Then his Ferrari let him down when he was running seventh with three laps to go. Nick Heidfeld came in second and Nico Rosberg third.

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