With Leclerc adding to his pole positions from 2021 and 2022, Verstappen taking second, and Sergio Perez taking third in the other Red Bull.
After the first three races in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Australia, Ferrari is a pitiful fourth in the constructors' standings.
In a late restart at Albert Park, Sainz collided with fellow countryman Fernando Alonso, costing the Ferrari driver a five-second penalty that dropped him from P4 to P12.
Teams can evaluate their progress thus far and work on upgrade packages for their cars without the usual summer shutdown regulations.
The announcement of a five-second time penalty for Sainz came through as the order was reset to the previous restart ahead of a final lap to the checkered flag behind the Safety Ca...
When his engineer informed Sainz of the penalty, the Spaniard was heard yelling over the radio and pleading with the stewards.
If the prancing horse believed they would have positive start to life under Frederic Vasseur, they have certainly gone back to the drawing board after the Bahrain GP.
Ferrari stated that they were confident they had fixed their reliability problems going into 2023, allowing Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz to form a stronger championship challen...
The SF-23, the first vehicle constructed under Vasseur's direction, is anticipated to be the rival that would assist the team in achieving its championship-winning objective.
After his first few weeks at Ferrari, Vasseur also offered a positive outlook, saying that based on what he had observed up to that point, the Scuderia has "everything" they need t...
