The Telegraph: Nature, in the form of rain, returned to the sport in Melbourne what physics, in the form of aerodynamics, has taken away; drama. When speed and water coincide at 200mph? There is little to match the spectacle. The Australian Grand Prix drivers thus ricocheted around Albert Park like drunks on ice.
The Daily Mail: Serenity amid chaos. Calm decision-making instead of wheel-to-wheel drama. That’s essentially how Jenson Button won an Australian Grand Prix so packed with sporting theatre that it sparked a moribund young season into radiant light.
The Times: [Lewis Hamilton] emerged from his own personal episode of Police, Camera, Action to put on one of the truly great displays of driving and single-handedly transformed a sport that looked condemned to the scrapheap into a model of gripping drama.
The Independent: The most gripping race in years, which gave the lie to the suggestion that Formula One is boring after a dull season opener in Bahrain a fortnight earlier.
The Guardian: A majestic and ultimately unchallenged win for Jenson Button in his second race as a McLaren-Mercedes driver provided the climax to an Australian grand prix in which Formula One redeemed itself from the criticisms of the past fortnight.
New York Times: After two weeks of criticism over a processional race at the season opener in Bahrain and accusations that Formula One’s new rules had made the series a bore, the second race of the season on Sunday was one of the most exciting in the past decade.
