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McLaren F1 race car replica is made up of around 288,315 LEGO bricks It took around 1,893 hours to be assembled It was built under the guidance of Ryan 'Brickman' McNaught

Haas have swapped their pit crew around for Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix after mistakes during the first race of the season in Australia two weeks ago cost the U.S.-owned Formula One team a likely best-ever result.

Five things we learned from the season-opening Formula One Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

Sebastian Vettel in a Ferrari won an incident-packed Australian Grand Prix Sunday ahead of world champion Lewis Hamilton in the Mercedes.

German Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel was looking for a fifth world title as he expressed on Thursday his hopes to end Ferrari's 10-year championship drought, ahead of the season-opening Rolex Australian Grand Prix.

The Briton, who had done only 25 laps earlier in the week after snow and rain wreaked havoc with the schedule, completed 69 more with a fastest time of one minute 19.333 seconds using the medium Pirelli tyres.

Hamilton came out on top last year, a season that started out in mutual respect before tipping into `road rage` and recrimination when he and Vettel collided and banged wheels in Azerbaijan.

The season starts in Australia on March 20 but the new qualifying format will require changes to the software controlling the timing system.

Alonso had previously confirmed that he will participate in next year's F1 races, starting with the Australian Grand Prix.