Formula One's debutant drivers endured a baptism of fire at the Australian Grand Prix on Saturday during a qualifying session cut short by torrential rains. Four of the five rookies were banished during the first round of qualifying that saw drivers skidding and spinning around a water-logged Albert Park circuit scattered with debris from a number of crashes. Only Williams's Valtteri Bottas of Finland scraped into the top 16 drivers who will finish the second and third rounds of qualifying early on Sunday and scramble to make adjustments before the race starts at 5 pm local time (8am SA, CAT< GMT+2). Drivers were confined to their cockpits for a nervous 30-minute wait before the...
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