Race 2 of 19 in the 2010 Formula One World Championship
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Race details[1]
Date
28 March 2010
Official name
2010 Formula 1 Qantas Australian Grand Prix[2]
Location
Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia
Course
Temporary street circuit
Course length
5.303 km (3.295 miles)
Distance
58 laps, 307.574 km (191.118 miles)
Weather
Overcast with light rain at start
Attendance
108,500[3]
Pole position
Driver
Sebastian Vettel
Red Bull-Renault
Time
1:23.919
Fastest lap
Driver
Mark Webber
Red Bull-Renault
Time
1:28.358 on lap 47
Podium
First
Jenson Button
McLaren-Mercedes
Second
Robert Kubica
Renault
Third
Felipe Massa
Ferrari
Lap leaders
Motor car race
The 2010 Australian Grand Prix (formally the 2010 Formula 1 Qantas Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 28 March 2010 at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was the second round of the 2010 Formula One World Championship. McLaren driver Jenson Button won the 58-lap race starting from fourth position. Robert Kubica finished second for the Renault team and Ferrari driver Felipe Massa was third.
The victory was Button's first of the season; the result moved him to third place in the Drivers' Championship, two points behind Massa and a further four adrift of Fernando Alonso. Lewis Hamilton dropped to fourth while Nico Rosberg maintained fifth position. McLaren reduced the gap to Ferrari in the World Constructors' Championship to be sixteen points behind. Mercedes increased their hold on third place, while Renault's strong result allowed them to tie with Red Bull for fourth place, with seventeen races left in the season.
^"2010 Australian GP". ChicaneF1. Archived from the original on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
^"2010 Formula 1 Qantas Australian Grand Prix". Formula1.com. Archived from the original on 26 October 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
^"Motor Sport Results". austadiums.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
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