F1: GP of Australian 2014

Daniel Ricciardo, Nico Rosberg, Kevin Magnussen, Jenson Button, Kimi Räikkönen, Nico Hulkenberg, Valtteri Bottas, Felipe Massa

Nico Rosberg, Kimi Räikkönen, Kevin Magnussen, Adrian Sutil, Daniel Ricciardo

Daniel Ricciardo, Nico Rosberg, Andy Cowell, Kevin Magnussen

Nico Rosberg

Team Mercedes

Drivers classification

Pos	Driver	Nationality	Team	Points
1	Nico Rosberg	German	Mercedes	25
2	Kevin Magnussen	Danish	McLaren-Mercedes	18
3	Jenson Button	British	McLaren-Mercedes	15
4	Fernando Alonso	Spanish	Ferrari	12
5	Valtteri Bottas	Finnish	Williams-Mercedes	10
6	Nico Hulkenberg	German	Force India-Mercedes	8
7	Kimi Räikkönen	Finnish	Ferrari	6
8	Jean-Eric Vergne	French	STR-Renault	4
9	Daniil Kvyat	Russian	STR-Renault	2
10	Sergio Perez	Mexican	Force India-Mercedes	1
11	Adrian Sutil	German	Sauber-Ferrari	0
12	Esteban Gutierrez	Mexican	Sauber-Ferrari	0
13	Max Chilton	British	Marussia-Ferrari	0
14	Jules Bianchi	French	Marussia-Ferrari	0
15	Romain Grosjean	French	Lotus-Renault	0
16	Pastor Maldonado	Venezuelan	Lotus-Renault	0
17	Marcus Ericsson	Swedish	Caterham-Renault	0
18	Sebastian Vettel	German	Red Bull Racing-Renault	0
19	Lewis Hamilton	British	Mercedes	0
20	Felipe Massa	Brazilian	Williams-Mercedes	0
21	Kamui Kobayashi	Japanese	Caterham-Renault	0
22	Daniel Ricciardo	Australian	Red Bull Racing-Renault	0

Constructors 

Pos	Team	Points
1	McLaren-Mercedes	33
2	Mercedes	25
3	Ferrari	18
4	Williams-Mercedes	10
5	Force India-Mercedes	9
6	STR-Renault	6
7	Sauber-Ferrari	0
8	Marussia-Ferrari	0
9	Lotus-Renault	0
10	Caterham-Renault	0
11	Red Bull Racing-Renault	0

Nico Rosberg - GER

Nico Rosberg

Yes, I mean, already it’s been an amazing time here in Melbourne. Thanks to all of you, you’ve made it all the more special, all your support has been fantastic this weekend. Even though Daniel got a little bit more support than us. Anyway that’s normal. It’s been an amazing day. I’m just over the moon really. It’s incredible, everybody has worked so hard over the winter and now to have such an amazing Silver Arrow to drive is just unreal. This thing was unbelievably quick today and the reliability was good also, so it was just the perfect start to the season. I’m really thankful to Mercedes, they have done an amazing job over the winter.

Yeah, the start was just… off like a bullet - or off like a Silver Arrow - thanks to Evan he did a great job on my start - my engineer who’s responsible for that. And then after that the car was just really, really quick today and the whole team did such a good job on it. Engine: really good engine, not much of a problem with fuel consumption, didn’t have to worry much about that, pretty much as usual. It just all worked perfectly. Reliability was great. So, fantastic. I’m just so happy for everybody. They work so damn hard, I don’t think people can really imagine how hard everybody works in my team and I’m sure in other teams too - so that’s just the best reward possible. To dominate in such a way the first week, the first race out.

Daniel Ricciardo - AUS*

*Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo has lost his second-place finish in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix after stewards decided his car had run with too high a fuel flow rate during the race. The team are to appeal the decision.

Jenson Button, Daniel Ricciardo

Definitely. If I look back at where we were three weeks ago - or however long ago it was, definitely. We’ve never done a race distance up until today, so we didn’t really have much confidence we’d see a chequered flag, let alone see it in a podium position. Obviously, as Nico said with his team, the same for ours. They really worked hard over the winter and really clawed back a massive margin. Obviously we still don’t have the pace of the Mercedes but it’s a result that we will definitely take today and we can make a lot of progress from here. So, pretty happy. It’s a bit overwhelming for now but an unbelievable day.

Kevin Magnussen - DEN

Kevin Magnussen

Yeah. Nico was just saying, ‘Mate, you’re on third!’ I can’t believe it. It’s not a win but it definitely feels like a bit of a win because, as you said, the team is coming off a difficult season and they really wanted to come back and they’ve worked so hard over the winter. And working with a rookie as well who hasn’t got experience. It’s been tough for them, for sure - but they’ve done such a good job, made me feel really at home and made me feel comfortable with everything. Yeah. I couldn’t have asked for more.

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