Toto Wolff, the Mercedes boss, has insisted the team will come back stronger from their defeat to Ferrari at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Mercedes have dominated Formula One for the past three years, but Sebastian Vettel’s comfortable victory today will spark suggestions that their stranglehold on the sport could be over. We did not have a great testing and we did not have a great day today, but we will leave no stone unturned in order to winFour-times champion Vettel finished ten seconds clear of Lewis Hamilton at Albert Park, which marked the first time a team other than Mercedes has won the first grand prix of the season since 2013. It could be argued that it is just what the sport needed after three consecutive years of Hamilton versus Nico Rosberg - the reigning champion who watched today’s race unfold from his lounge in Monaco after retiring following his triumph.…

Source: The Times March 26, 2017 10:52 UTC