Pilot of the Lotus-Renault, Vitaly Petrov finished third in the Australian Grand Prix, thereby bringing Russia first podium in the history of "royal racing". Victory in the first stage the world championship of Formula 1, won by Sebastian Vettel.
Russian rider team "Lotus-Renault Vitaly Petrov in the first race of the season ranked third. This is the first career podium in our pilot and the first podium in the history of Russian motorsport.
On Sunday in Melbourne, Australia Albert Park, "hosted the first season of the 2011 stage of World Championship racing class" Formula 1 ". For many years, the Australian Grand Prix has always opened the championship, "the Queen of motorsport." In recent years the Melbourne crowd with the first line of the calendar became a milestone in Bahrain - the first season was opened in the Middle East in 2006, the year. Start again Championships held in Bahrain last year. There should have been opened and the current championship, but due to the well-known domestic political turmoil in this small country, it was decided to cancel the race at Sakhir, and the right to host first Grand Prix once again moved to Melbourne.
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