Rachel T: People need to realise that Valtteri is a terrific driver - this is not a surprise and I am sure Lewis will relish the fight, particularly as there doesn’t seem to be a challenge from Ferrari!

Babatunde Sakiru: It's too early to speculate the championship. However, Lewis Hamilton needs to reflect on his own performance.

Jeremiah Kariuki: Bottas enjoying the race. Setting fast lap after fast lap. He is going for maximum 26 points.

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Vettel: "Why are we so slow?"

Vettel's engineer: "We don't know at the moment."

However, his teammate Charles Leclerc is taking time out of Vettel...

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• Valtteri Bottas gets an excellent start to overtake pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton on the opening lap. Bottas now has a 23-second lead over Hamilton.
• Max Verstappen overtakes Sebastian Vettel on lap 31 to move up to third. The Dutchman is 1.5 seconds behind Hamilton.
• Daniel Ricciardo, in his first race for Renault, loses his front wing on the opening lap, has to pit and drops down to last. His race then ends on lap 31.
• Robert Kubica has also had to pit early on with a problem for Williams in his first F1 race since 2010 and is last of those still running.
• Carlos Sainz was the first man out of the race, with his McLaren on fire in the 11th lap. Sainz escapes the car unhurt.
• A pit-stop error from Haas sees Romain Grosjean drop down from seventh out of the points. Grosjean then becomes the third man out, pulling over on the side of the track on lap 32 as his front left tyre comes loose.

Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

Hamilton is still much slower than Bottas, still a second a lap.

He's over 23 seconds ahead of Hamilton in the lead. That gap is the bigger than any of the top two throughout the whole of last year.

And he undid all of his hard work.

However... he just made it back as he went ahead of Gasly coming out of the pits. Kvyat is now up to 10th and is still pushing hard.

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With a capital S.

They are well down at the bottom of the leaderboard. George Russell is way down over a lap behind and 18 seconds behind Giovinazzi in 15th.

But Robert Kubica is even further behind, he's two laps and 1min 20 sec behind George Russell!

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That Mercedes-Honda combination at the front is a strong one.

Bottas reclaims the fastest lap, and Verstappen is on Hamilton's tail.

Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

It is a strange race from Hamilton, he has been up and down and he has Ferrari and an aggressive Red Bull not far behind.

• Valtteri Bottas gets an excellent start to overtake pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton on the opening lap. Bottas now has a 15-second lead over Hamilton.
• Max Verstappen overtakes Sebastian Vettel on lap 31 to move up to third.
• Daniel Ricciardo, in his first race for Renault, loses his front wing on the opening lap, has to pit and drops down to last. His race then ends on lap 31.
• Robert Kubica has also had to pit early on with a problem for Williams in his first F1 race since 2010 and is last of those still running.
• Carlos Sainz was the first man out of the race, with his McLaren on fire in the 11th lap. Sainz escapes the car unhurt.
• A pit-stop error from Haas sees Romain Grosjean drop down from seventh out of the points. Grosjean then becomes the third man out, pulling over on the side of the track on lap 32 as his front left tyre comes loose.

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Goodbye Daniel Ricciardo. Not a good day in the Aussie office for him.

Romain Grosjean says on the radio: "Front suspension's broken." But actually, it's the same as Australia last year, his front left tyre isn't on properly.

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Once again between Verstappen and Vettel. (Remember this from the end of last season?)

And Verstappen does what he does best - squeezes through a gap which isn't really there, and he does him.

While everyone else is on the mediums, Ferrari decide on the hard tyres for Leclerc. Interesting strategy there.

They brought an extra set of hard tyres for Charles Leclerc, and one less of mediums.

Royston De Zilva: Bottas is on fire. He’s the number 1 driver at Mercedes after that first corner

Amit Mandalia: Vettel closing the gap in Hamilton at the moment

Frank Meehan: Lance Stroll up to 6th in the Racing Point. Maybe he has got the talent for F1 after all and just needed the right car

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Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

Giovinazzi's race is ruined but it helps his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen as he is holding up his rivals.