One race down, 20 to go and the principal mental blow has been struck in the fight between Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel.
Mercedes had the pace in Melbourne. Hamilton did everything right and had the Australian Grand Prix under control – yet he didn’t win. What’s more, to exacerbate the situation, his principle opponent and kindred four-time title holder Vettel did.
Throughout the years we’ve seen a wide range of high points and low points for Hamilton and various responses tailing them. On Sunday after the race, past the underlying disillusionment of the annihilation, he appeared to be certain and willing to learn with the group to ensure it doesn’t occur once more.
Briton Hamilton has developed a great deal finished the years and has without a doubt turn into a more grounded driver, harder to beat than any time in recent memory.
It was just in 2016 when he had a troublesome, unfortunate keep running toward the beginning of the season. In the wake of getting beaten in the season opener by Nico Rosberg, he continued to have an extremely awful series of results and finished the initial four rounds 43 focuses behind his German colleague, who might at last go ahead to win the title.
It’s imperative Hamilton reacts in the most ideal route conceivable in the following round in Bahrain – on the grounds that if this season goes anything like that one, Vettel may well be hard to get.
It will sting for Hamilton. Having driven a flawless end of the week, to lose a race through issues outside of your control is a bad dream situation.
As a driver, there are such a significant number of inquiries you need to request that your group make sense of how things turned out badly – at the end of the day this one is principally down to a stroke of misfortune.
Without a doubt, if Hamilton knew prior that the hole to Vettel was too huge, at that point he may have possessed the capacity to push hard and limit it somewhat prior before the virtual wellbeing car (VSC) was called, in any case it was simply the VSC that chose this race.
For Vettel and Ferrari, this win will give them a gigantic lift and a vitality for whatever is left of the year.
They looked somewhat off Mercedes and even Red Bull on occasion amid the end of the week, and Vettel never appeared to be over the car as he did as such frequently a year ago, notwithstanding qualifying behind his partner Kimi Raikkonen.
Ferrari had a trump card in this race, however, which was having two cars at the front rather than the solitary Mercedes of Hamilton. Having the capacity to part the techniques enabled them to toss more alert to the breeze and benefit from the possible VSC.
