Photo by: www.kymillman.com/f1 A wet morning for Free Practice 3 turned into a dry and sunny qualifying session. The question weighed like a two-ton heavy thing—who was going to be the fastest team? Had Red Bull leap-frogged Ferrari? Could either give Mercedes a challenge? The qualifying session started with an automatic 3-place grid penalty for Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo so qualifying was critical if he had any hope of being the first Australian on the podium of the Australian Grand Prix. Q1 Early running on Ultrasoft tire compounds found Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen leading in the first 10 minutes. With lots of traffic on the track, Lewis Hamilton was balked as was Sebastian Vettel....
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