2018 Australian Grand Prix
Qualifying
Notes – Daniel Ricciardo received a three-place grid penalty for failing to adequately slow down for a red flag during free practice.

2018 Australian Grand Prix

Section Title: Qualifying
Table Section Text: Notes – Daniel Ricciardo received a three-place grid penalty for failing to adequately slow down for a red flag during free practice.

Pos.	Car no.	Driver	Constructor	Qualifying times	Final grid

Q1	Q2	Q3

1	44	United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:22.824	1:22.051	1:21.164	1

2	7	Finland Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:23.096	1:22.507	1:21.828	2

3	5	Germany Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:23.348	1:21.944	1:21.838	3

4	33	Netherlands Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	1:23.483	1:22.416	1:21.879	4

5	3	Australia Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	1:23.494	1:22.897	1:22.152	8

6	20	Denmark Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1:23.909	1:23.300	1:23.187	5

7	8	France Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1:23.671	1:23.468	1:23.339	6

8	27	Germany Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	1:23.782	1:23.544	1:23.532	7

9	55	Spain Carlos Sainz Jr.	Renault	1:23.529	1:23.061	1:23.577	9

10	77	Finland Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:23.686	1:22.089	No time	15

11	14	Spain Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Renault	1:23.597	1:23.692	10

12	2	Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren-Renault	1:24.073	1:23.853	11

13	11	Mexico Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	1:24.344	1:24.005	12

14	18	Canada Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	1:24.464	1:24.230	13

15	31	France Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	1:24.503	1:24.786	14

16	28	New Zealand Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	1:24.532	16

17	9	Sweden Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	1:24.556	17

18	16	Monaco Charles Leclerc	Sauber-Ferrari	1:24.636	18

19	35	Russia Sergey Sirotkin	Williams-Mercedes	1:24.922	19

20	10	France Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	1:25.295	20

107% time: 1:28.621

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In the 2018 Australian Grand Prix, Vettel drove the Ferrari and was the fastest driver with a lap time of 1 minute and 21.944 seconds.

final_sentence: In the 2018 Australian Grand Prix, Vettel drove the Ferrari and was the fastest driver with a lap time of 1 minute and 21.944 seconds.