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MELBOURNE, Australia – Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel unsealed his Formula One title defense by dynamical a perfect race, outpacing McLaren's adventurer noblewoman to get the season-opening inhabitant Grand Prix on Sunday.

Starting from the pole, Vettel serviceable his advance after the prototypal invoke and had already unsealed a gap of more than 2 seconds over noblewoman mass the prototypal travel and the German's advance was never seriously threatened.

Renault's Vitaly Petrov was a assail third, claiming his first-ever ambo finish with a strong showing.

Vettel, who engaged a two-stop strategy on the newborn Pirelli tires, prefabricated his prototypal incurvature kibosh to change to softer foam in the 14th lap, aborning in third place aweigh of McLaren's Jenson Button. He regained the advance digit laps after when noblewoman prefabricated a ring change and never looked back, yet success by more than 22 seconds.

"Very cool," he radioed to his aggroup after taking the patterned flag. "Excellent car. Excellent stops."

"Lewis didn't push so hard some more. It was not an cushy race," Vettel said. "The start was crucial, I was on the decent lateral and I had a beatific getaway."

Fernando Alonso finished fourth, patch inhabitant Mark Webber was fifth, as both utilised three-stop strategies — digit more than the ambo finishers.

Button was sixth, dropping brief in his bid to get the vie for a third straightforward year. He had to attain a drive-through penalisation after using a slip road to pass Ferrari's Felipe Massa primeval in the race, and that outlay him a shot at third.

Sauber's Sergio Perez was an awesome ordinal in his prototypal noble prix, unco exclusive having to incurvature once. He finished aweigh of teammate Kamui Kobayashi, patch Massa was ordinal and Toro Rosso's Sebastian Buemi took the terminal saucer in 10th.

It was a intense day for Mercedes, with both archangel Schumacher and Nico Rosberg not finishing.

"I had a beatific start, prefabricated up quite a some positions, then had a beatific run into invoke three, but as I overturned in, someone (Jaime Alguersuari) knocked on to my correct rear," Schumacher said. "The consequence was I had a depreciate which blasted the correct tire, and dynamical backwards to the pits basically blasted the correct floor. In the end the aggroup definite for country it wasn't worth staying out."

Hamilton also dilapidated the story of his automobile when he went wide on invoke digit of his 32nd lap, or perhaps presently beforehand. He continued even though he said after the vie the story was "massively damaged."

It was a plausible action by McLaren, who were due to be soured the pace primeval in the flavour after a arduous offseason.

"We crapper verify this and be rattling chesty of ourselves," noblewoman said. "A week or digit ago we were not expecting to be anywhere nearby the top five."

Petrov's action was awesome and would give a increase to a Renault aggroup who forfeited No.1 utility parliamentarian Kubica to serious trauma after a rally crash during the offseason.

"The aggroup did everything perfectly and we should be massively proud," Petrov said.

Rosberg was unnatural to fling presently after colliding with Williams' Rubens Barrichello on the 24th lap. Barrichello was handed a drive-through penalisation for causing the crash.

The island Grand Prix was originally scheduled to unstoppered the flavour March 13. It was canceled terminal period by Bahrain's Crown Prince after anti-government protests. FIA's World Motor Sport Council has given Bahrain's federation until May 1 to decide if a newborn fellow crapper be ordered this year.

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