What a battle at the start of the race
The Australian GP started with a furious battle between Charles Leclerc and George Russell with Lewis Hamilton spectator in the front row of the duel between his teammate and the Mercedes driver.
Isack Hadjar’s power unit knockout unleashed a regime of Virtual Safety Car which was used by the Mercedes wall to make a pit stop with both George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli.
There Ferrari instead he did not call either Charles Leclerc or Lewis Hamilton back to the pits, essentially accepting that he would then lose his positions on the track because he would not have been able to stop during a neutralization. Lewis Hamilton he didn’t like the choice of the wall and said via radio that at least one of the Ferrari drivers would have to stop. The strategists of the Scuderia di Maranello did not want to diversify the strategies between Leclerc and Hamilton.
