2011 Australian Grand Prix

Date	Sunday, 27 March 2011
Winner	Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
Pole position	Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
Fastest lap	Felipe Massa Ferrari
Circuit	Melbourne, 58 laps
Round	1 of 19
Race numbers	The 2011 Australian Grand Prix was the: 840th World Championship race 27th World Championship Australian Grand Prix 16th World Championship race at Melbourne
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Previous race	2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Race result

Pos		Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time	Points
1		(DEU) Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	58	1hr 29m 30.259s	25
2		(GBR) Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	58	+22.297s	18
3	+3	(RUS) Vitaly Petrov	Renault	58	+30.560s	15
4	+1	(ESP) Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	58	+31.772s	12
5	-2	(AUS) Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	58	+38.171s	10
6	-2	(GBR) Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	58	+54.304s	8
DQ		(MEX) Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	58	+1m 05.845s
DQ		(JPN) Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	58	+1m 16.872s
7	+1	(BRA) Felipe Massa	Ferrari	58	+1m 25.186s	6
8	+2	(CHE) Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	57	+1 lap	4
9	+7	(DEU) Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	57	+1 lap	2
10	+4	(GBR) Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	57	+1 lap	1
11	+1	(ESP) Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	57	+1 lap
12	+6	(DEU) Nick Heidfeld	Renault	57	+1 lap
13	+7	(ITA) Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	56	+2 laps
14	+8	(BEL) Jerome d’Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	54	+4 laps
NC		(DEU) Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	49	+9 laps
R		(BRA) Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	48	DNF
R		(DEU) Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	22	DNF
R		(FIN) Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	19	DNF
R		(DEU) Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	19	DNF
R		(VEN) Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	9	DNF

Notes

Sauber drivers Sergio Perez and Kamui Kobayashi were disqualified post-race for rear wing infringements.

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap
Q3
1	(DEU) Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1:23.529
2	(GBR) Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:24.307	0.778
3	(AUS) Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:24.395	0.866
4	(GBR) Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:24.779	1.250
5	(ESP) Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:24.974	1.445
6	(RUS) Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1:25.247	1.718
7	(DEU) Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:25.421	1.892
8	(BRA) Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:25.599	2.070
9	(JPN) Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1:25.626	2.097
10	(CHE) Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:27.066	3.537
Q2
11	(DEU) Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1:25.971
12	(ESP) Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:26.103
13	(MEX) Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:26.108
14	(GBR) Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:26.739
15	(VEN) Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1:26.768
16	(DEU) Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:31.407
17	(BRA) Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	–
Q1
18	(DEU) Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1:27.239
19	(FIN) Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1:29.254
20	(ITA) Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1:29.342
21	(DEU) Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1:29.858
22	(BEL) Jerome d’Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1:30.822
Did not qualify
23	(ITA) Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	1:32.978
24	(IND) Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1:34.293

How the championship standings stood post-race.

Race debut: Jerome d’Ambrosio (first Belgian driver to start a race since 1994); Paul di Resta; Pastor Maldonado (first Venezuelan driver to start a race since 1984); Sergio Perez (first Mexican driver to start a race since 1981)
Wins: 11th for Sebastian Vettel; 16th for Red Bull
Podiums: 37th for Lewis Hamilton; 20th for Sebastian Vettel (45th driver to score 20 podiums, 3rd German driver); 1st and only for Vitaly Petrov (198th different podium finisher, 1st Russian driver); 453rd for McLaren; 99th for Renault; 40th for Red Bull (12th constructor to score 40 podiums)
Poles: 16th for Sebastian Vettel; 21st for Red Bull
Fastest laps: 13th for Felipe Massa (first since 2009); 225th for Ferrari
Front row starts: 30th for Lewis Hamilton (21st driver to achieve 30 front row starts, 8th British driver); 24th for Sebastian Vettel
Points finishes: 1st for Paul di Resta (315th different point scorer, 58th British driver)
Pole & win: 8th for Sebastian Vettel