Melbourne, - Button start perfectly, while his teammate Hamilton looks the rear wheels spin. Conditions were very favorable Button which first entered the first corner. After that he immediately made within 3 seconds and continues to maintain its leadership position.
Two Mercedes, was kicked off by winning the third and fourth positions through both racer, Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg. But enter the second lap, Vettel who started from the fifth to move up Rosberg finished fourth. Shortly after that, precisely lap 10, Schumacher's turn to get slower and Red Bull is the third roost.
Distance of Button and Hamilton increasingly tenuous to 10 seconds when Hamilton did the first pitstop. When he entered the track was behind Kimi Raikkonen (Lotus) and Sergio Perez (Sauber).
This race also marked the opening series of scenes of accidents among experienced Romain Grosjean. Lotus racer who started third, sixth and first dropped a spectator in the second lap after a strong push at Pasto Maldonado (Williams).
Williams driver Maldonado louar toga lap and then to bend the trajectory in the sixth and went gravel.Meski get away, but again a great accident happened on the last lap the car hit the wall hard and badly damaged.
Another nudge scene also took place between Mark Webber with Nico Hulkenberg at the first corner. German rider Hulkenberg of Force India team was eventually unable to continue the race.
Competition was "disturbed" by the inclusion of the safety car on lap 37 after the driver Vitaly Petrov Caterham stopped his car on the track due to interference with the steering wheel straight.
When the car entered the track guides, Button quickly to the pits to change tires, which is then followed by teammate Hamilton. Both use a hard compound tire.
While Red Bull chose the strategy to run. In fact, if Vettel go into tires when the track could get behind the McLaren duo.
Felipe Massa suffered the misfortune of the finished fight with Daniel Ricciardo (Toro Rosso) 47 laps in the first corner. One lap later, Bruno Senna (Williams) who had a direct hit Ricciardo overtake Massa on the corner 3. As a result, the inevitable scratching porch and Massa could not continue the race.
Luckily there is still a Ferrari Fernando Alonso who finished fifth. Results are not bad, although she admitted F2012 still less rapidly with McLaren and Red Bull.
Jenson Button won the Australian F1 Grand Prix circuit at Albert Park berlangtsung, Melbourne, Sunday (18/3). The British McLaren driver was taking control of the race is 58 laps and recorded a total time of 1 hour 34 minutes 09.565 seconds.
Sebastian Vettel won the second position to touch the finish 2.100 seconds behind Button, Lewis Hamiltom followed in third and the host driver Mark Webber finished fourth.
