<b>VICTORY IN MELBOURNE:</b> Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton (left) speaks with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger on the podium after winning the season-opening 2015 Australian F! GP. <i>Image: AP / Rob Griffith</i>
MELBOURNE, Australia - Lewis Hamilton easily held off team mate Nico Rosberg for the whole race to give Mercedes a dominant victory in the season-opening 2015 Australian GP in Melbourne on Sunday (March 15).
Reigning Drivers' champion Hamilton beat 2014 race winner Rosberg by 1.3sec and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel by a whopping 34sec.
Sebastian Vettel, in his first race drive for Ferrari since switching from Red Bull, finished ahead of Williams' Felipe Massa.
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