AUSTRAILIAN GRAND PRIX - IT IS LEWIS HAMILTON AND TEAM MERCEDES ON POLE!

Brilliant drive from Lewis ~Hamilton to extract Pole position from what can prove to be a rather merciless and unforgiving the Albert Park Grand Prix circuit. As we have seen from how a part of the circuit, apparently a part which is inhabited by a god who demands either optimum performance from the drivers. Or the destruction of their cars, went about doing just that to the aptless Valtteri Bottas, in Q3. Having been enticed into committing himself into driving through the 'zone of destruction or serenity', as if he was already at one with it, and then finding that he was not quite there, and eventually losing it. A greatly disappointed Bottas found that he was truly in the hands, at the mercy even, of the gods. Unfortunately for this brave driver, and for reasons known only to the gods themselves, the gods were not feeling benevolent. No; they were feeling exceedingly angry. An anger they expressed by taking a ...