Sebastian Vettel, Formula 1

Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Formula 1 opened the title defense, most important the perfect race, ahead of McLaren Lewis Hamilton to win the opportunity Australian Grand Prix on Sunday.

Preliminary from pole location, Vettel kept his lead after the first turn and had already opened a gap of more than 2 seconds over Hamilton, following the first round and lead the Germans have never been dangerously exposed.

Renault Vitaly Petrov was a surprise third, claiming his first podium with a strong show.

Vettel, who hired two stop approach on new tires Pirelli, made his first pit stop to change the soft rubber in the 14-lap, consequential in third place to the front of McLaren in JB. He restored the lead two laps later when Hamilton made a tire change and never looked back, eventually winning by more than 22 seconds.

"It's great," he radioed to his team after the checkered flag. "Excellent machine. Excellent stop."

Fernando Alonso done 4th, while Australian Mark Webber was 5^thand how to use a three-stop strategy - one more than the podium finishers.

Button was sixth, behind in his quest to win the race for the third consecutive year. He had to do drivethrough penalty after using the best grip to pass Ferrari Felipe Massa at the beginning of the race, and that cost him a shot in the third.

Sauber's Sergio Perez has been impressive seventh in his first Grand Prix, surprising only to the well once. He finished ahead of teammate Kamui Kobayashi, and Massa was ninth and Toro Rosso Sebastien Buemi took the last point in the 10 th.

It was a bad day for Mercedes, with both Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg did not finish.

"I had a good start, of which quite a few positions, it was a good run into turn three, but as I was in, someone (Jaime Alguersuari) knocked on my rear right," Schumacher said. "The result was I had a puncture, which destroyed the right bus, and returned to the pits mostly destroyed the right word. In the end the team decided for safety that you should not stay out."

Hamilton also damaged the floor of his car when he went wide on turn one of its thirty-second range. He continued, although the team warned him late to nurse the car into second, and not try to fight for the leadership.