“We can be happy with today’s results. The race was a lot of fun, very entertaining. Conditions were tricky at the start, you never know what can happen in those moments, so I was perhaps a bit too conservative.
“It’s been a great day for us. The team has been working so hard at the track as much as back at the factory. It’s a great feeling. “Grazie mille”, you can’t say much more.
There was a familiar look to the top of the timesheet as the 2017 F1 season burst into life in Australia on Friday afternoon, with Lewis Hamilton leading new team mate Valtteri Bottas in a Mercedes one-two.
Ferrari has a new British engineer this season, Jock Clear. Clear worked with Michael Schumacher in the past and remembers well when Schumacher boasted about how good Sebastian Vettel was.
Welcome to our fist live commenting of the 2015 United-States F1 Grand Prix if you missed the Qualifying that was postponed to today due to Patricia the Tropical storm that hit Austin yeasturday.