Nico Hulkenberg finished ninth, was later moved up to seventh following chaotic end of F1 Australia Grand Prix.
took the final standing restart from ninth and avoided the chaos to move up to fourth place when the F1 Australian Grand Prix was red flagged.
Formula 1’s regulations outline that this is done at the ‘last point at which it was possible to determine the position of all cars." Hulkenberg took the final standing restart from ninth and avoided the chaos to move up to fourth place when the race was red flagged for good. However, Hulkenberg was consequently shuffled back down to ninth due to the way in which the FIA determined the revised race order.
Hulkenberg’s ninth wound up being classified as finishing seventh—due to the penalty for Carlos Sainz and the removal of non-restarter Pierre Gasly—but Haas felt he should have been one place higher, ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris, because of where the drivers were at Safety Car Line 2, which is located just prior to Turn 1.