Disappointment in Melbourne is nothing new for Daniel Ricciardo; what should have been the Red Bull racer's finest hour, a second place on his debut for the team at the Australian Grand Prix in 2014, turned to dust when his first career podium was taken away, his car disqualified for a breach of the technical regulations.

There's always next year.

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Australian Daniel Ricciardo's hopes of scoring a maiden Australian Grand Prix win were dashed before the race even got under way when his Red Bull Racer ground to a halt on the formation lap of the Albert Park circuit.

Briton Lewis Hamilton scored his fourth successive pole position at Melbourne's Albert Park lakeside circuit when he qualified his Mercedes fastest of the 20 strong field for Sunday's Formula One season opening Australian Grand Prix.

An uncustomary crash leaves Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo on the back foot.

Melbourne's chiropractors must salivate when yoga and golf are replaced by petrol and burning rubber at Albert Park on grand prix weekend.

Mercedes ace Lewis Hamilton has taken pole position for the Australian grand prix as local hope Daniel Ricciardo crashed in qualifying.

Emergency Mercedes recruit Valterri Bottas knows he has been given the Formula 1 chance of a lifetime and he is determined to defy the doubters.

The Formula One driver has returned in career-best shape.

Money talks, as the saying goes – and in no sport does money talk loudest than in Formula One.

Daniel Ricciardo is hopeful of a three-horse race in the F1 Constructor's Championship this season.

Formula One's rulers have rolled the dice and introduced significant changes for the 2017 F1 season.

Daniel Ricciardo is, literally and figuratively, the poster boy for the Formula One Australian Grand Prix.

Just one year ago in the Formula One pre-season Lewis Hamilton wistfully spoke about the fast-cornering, wide-tyre monsters of eras past and wished for their return. Amazingly, it happened.

Give me a full-on scrap, rather than an easy win, for my next title, says F1 champ Lewis Hamilton.

While Australian Grand Prix organisers are talking up the events ability to compete with the opening round of AFL, they'll also be talking to the new owners of Formula One to try and avoid the clash in future.

Daniel Ricciardo is "very confident" he will be a serious contender for this year's Formula One world title.

Clashes, crashes and controversy. Right from the start, the Melbourne Grand Prix has had it all – on and off the track.