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Carlos Sainz led Charles Leclerc to a Ferrari one-two in the Australian Grand Prix as Max Verstappen\u2019s domination of Formula 1 stalled.<\/strong><\/p>\n Sainz swept by the world champion\u2019s Red Bull into the lead on the second lap before the Dutchman retired with a brake failure after just four laps.<\/p>\n The Spaniard then controlled the race as Leclerc passed McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris in the first pit-stop period.<\/p>\n The race ended under a virtual safety car after a crash for George Russell.<\/p>\n Chasing Fernando Alonso\u2019s Aston Martin for sixth place, the Mercedes driver lost control at Turn Six on the final lap and suffered a crash, the car coming to rest on its side, held up in the air by landing on its left-front wheel. Russell was unhurt.<\/p>\n Alonso and Russell were called to the stewards, who penalised the Spaniard 20 seconds, dropping him to eighth place, and gave him three penalty points on his licence for what stewards said driving \u201cin a manner that was at very least \u2018potentially dangerous\u2019 given the very high speed nature of that point of the track\u201d.<\/p>\n Alonso admitted slowing too early and then accelerating again before braking, but said he got the manoeuvre \u201cslightly wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n It was a difficult end to a sobering day for Mercedes, on which their status as also-rans was apparently confirmed \u2013 Lewis Hamilton retired after 16 laps with an engine failure.<\/p>\n Norris led Oscar Piastri to a McLaren three-four ahead of Red Bull\u2019s Sergio Perez, anonymous on a day on which he was unable to capitalise on Verstappen\u2019s retirement.<\/p>\n The post Formula 1: Carlos Sainz wins Australian Grand Prix after Max Verstappen retires<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Carlos Sainz led Charles Leclerc to a Ferrari one-two in the Australian Grand Prix as Max Verstappen\u2019s domination of Formula 1 stalled. Sainz swept by the world champion\u2019s Red Bull into the lead on the second lap before the Dutchman retired with a brake failure after just four laps. The Spaniard then controlled the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}