Amidst squandered opportunities and misfortune it took Lotus eighteen races to finally climb to the top step of the podium in 2012. This season it’s taken just a single race for Kimi Raikkonen and Lotus to emerge as championship contenders as the Enstone based team nailed a perfect strategy in tricky conditions at the Albert Park Street Circuit in Melbourne. Wet weather forced the postponement of qualifying until Sunday morning and although Q2 commenced in damp conditions, the climax to Q3 was dry enough for slick tyres. There was a grim inevitability about the final result as Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber comfortably locked out the front row, ahead of the impressive Mercedes W04 of...
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