The current world champion, until that moment was commanding the race and anticipating a slight victory at the Australian Grand Prix. But then it was understood that all the blame was on Mercedes leaders who had mistaken their calculations at the time that the “virtual security car” entered the runway.

This was accepted by Mercedes sports director Toto Wolff today, who said: “The race started well, but with a car it is hard to make a good strategy. After us, Raikkonen made a stop for the tires and we decided to cover, summoning Hamilton. Later, the system told us that we had a safe edge to be the first even though Vettel had not entered. But from the monitor we saw that our system was wrong. We need to understand why this has happened, “Wolff said.