Nico Rosberg achieved his first F1 career victory on this day in 2012 and gave Mercedes their first victory since 1955, the day after winning his first pole position, which marked a new, hugely successful chapter in Mercedes' F1 history.

Damon Hill won his first race of the season for Williams in Australia where Williams was dominant on the new street track in Melbourne while his team-mate and debutant Jacques Villeneuve wrote F1 history after he secured pole position in the first ever F1 appearance.

Lewis Hamilton won the first F1 race in Austin on this day in 2012 after he defeated Sebastian Vettel in Red Bull who started from pole position, overtaking him on the longest straight with DRS assistance.

Ayrton Senna won the 1993 Australian Grand Prix which was his 41st and last career victory in his last race for McLaren, where he won all of his three drivers' championship while it was also the last F1 race for four time world champion Alain Prost.

Nico Hulkenberg secured his first and only pole position in F1 career after being fastest in Williams FW32 in mixed conditions at Interlagos after beating both Red Bull drivers by more than a second.

Kimi Raikkonen won for the first time since his F1 comeback on this day in 2012 after celebrating his victory at the Abu Dhabi GP. The Finn withstood late pressure from the double world champion Fernando Alonso who desperately wanted to close the gap to the championship leader Sebastian Vettel

Lewis Hamilton won the 2014 US GP after he beat his team mate Nico Rosberg on track and moved closer to his second world championship.

On this day in 2008, Lewis Hamilton finished fifth in the last race of the 2008 F1 championship in Brazil after he overtook Timo Glock in Toyota in the last lap and became the youngest F1 champion of all time.

Mika Hakkinen won his first World Championship title in 1998 after celebrating in the last race of the championship in Japan, defeating Michael Schumacher who stalled his Ferrari from pole position.

The first Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was held in 2009., the race after the Brazilian Grand Prix decided Drivers' and the Constructors' Championship. Jenson Button, who has won six of the first seven races, became the tenth British champion in the history of Formula 1 and Brawn GP became the constructors' champions