Valtteri Bottas stuns team-mate Lewis Hamilton to win the 2019 Australian Grand Prix

2019 Formula One Grand Prix is off to a great start as Valterri Bottas of Mercedes has stunned his team-mate as well as five-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton to win Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on Sunday.

Mercedes has been dominating F1 circuit for a long time. 'Silver Arrows' have won five consecutive World Constructor's Championships in a row and with Bottas getting better of Hamilton, it will only boost ir morale heing into next race.

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Bottas started his F1 career in 2013 with Williams. He was roped in by Mercedes during 2017 season to team up with Hamilton after Nico Rosberg h anunced his immediate retirement post his Driver's World Championship triumph in previous season.  He obliged his employers by finishing at third position in season's first race i.e. Australian Open Grand Prix.  As season progressed, he went on to register three Grand Prix wins for Mercedes in Russia,  Austria and Abu Dhabi respectively. 

Bottas was so amazed after his Australian Grand Prix win that he was left completely speechless and h idea about what h happened. At same time, he also mentioned that it was his best race ever.

He also took to Twitter to express his happiness post his convincing win.

By virtue of this win, Bottas got his revenge against Hamilton for what h happened at last season's Russian Grand Prix. He h to surrender his le to Hamilton as he was longer in championship fight while Hamilton on hand was in red hot form. He has indeed me a strong statement in opening race of season by winning his fourth Grand Prix.

29 -year old Finnish is confident about being in fight for World Championship. However, in order to make it happen, he will need to get better of his team-mate and current World Champion Lewis Hamilton on a regular basis.

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