2014 Australian Grand Prix Sunday - Australian Grand Prix

Thank you for sticking with AUTOSPORT Live for a delayed, unsavoury end to the Australian Grand Prix weekend.

There will be plenty of fallout to come, so stick with AUTOSPORT.com over the coming days for all the reaction to the 2014 Formula 1 season's curtain-raiser.

On Monday we'll bring you EDD STRAW's new-for-2014 analysis of how the race was won, plus his driver ratings, while Tuesday's feature content will include GARY ANDERSON's verdict on events in Melbourne.

The next bout of live coverage comes next weekend courtesy of Race Centre Live and the MotoGP season opener, while our live F1 coverage will return in two weeks' time for the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Will Nico Rosberg and Mercedes remain on top? Can Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo and Red Bull bounce back from a troubled (and now controversial) first round? And are Kevin Magnussen and Jenson Button going to be podium contenders again for McLaren?

You'll have to join us again next time find out.

Nico Rosberg Australian Grand Prix

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has come out fighting over this issue. JONATHAN NOBLE is just back from speaking to him, story soon.

Obviously that removes Ricciardo from second in the drivers' championship too, but it also benefits McLaren - which now holds an eight point lead over Mercedes rather than just two.

Revised drivers' championship standings:

1. Nico Rosberg 25
2. Kevin Magnussen 18
3. Jenson Button 15
4. Fernando Alonso 12
5. Valtteri Bottas 10
6. Nico Hulkenberg 8
7. Kimi Raikkonen 6
8. Jean-Eric Vergne 4
9. Daniil Kvyat 2
10. Sergio Perez 1

Revised constructors' championship standings:

1. McLaren/Mercedes 33
2. Mercedes 25
3. Ferrari 18
4. Williams/Mercedes 10
5. Force India/Mercedes 9
6. Toro Rosso/Renault 6

That promotion to second for Magnussen is the best result for a grand prix debutant in 18 years, with the Dane equaling then-Williams driver Jacques Villeneuve's 1996 Australian Grand Prix effort on his first F1 start.

We'll have the full story of the stewards' decision shortly, and JONATHAN NOBLE has headed straight for the Red Bull garage to find out more.

The FIA had made it clear from the outset this weekend that it was adopting a "zero tolerance" approach to the new-for-2014 stringent fuel rules.

This is how it changes the race results (classified finishers only):

1. Rosberg
2. Magnussen
3. Button
4. Alonso
5. Bottas
6. Hulkenberg
7. Raikkonen
8. Vergne
9. Kvyat
10. Perez
11. Sutil
12. Gutierrez
13. Chilton

Heartbreak for the Australian, who loses an excellent second place on his Red Bull debut - a decision that removes him from the record books as the only Aussie to stand on the podium at his home grand prix.

BEN ANDERSON: "I spoke to Renault's head of track operations, Remi Taffin, earlier. He gave some insight into Sebastian Vettel's struggles this weekend, and the reason for his retirement."

If you're wondering if this might be a case of sleeping on it, AUTOSPORT understands that the FIA stewards are required to make a ruling one way or the other this evening.

It's approaching 11.30pm in Melbourne now and Ricciardo is believed to have left the circuit.

Conversely, if this result stands, Ricciardo will have become the first Australian to ever clinch a podium in his home GP.

Mark Webber - famously luckless at home - never managed it, and the event didn't join the calendar until 1985, after the heyday of Australia's last world champion Alan Jones.

Jones did contest the first two Adelaide F1 races in the Beatrice Lola but was an early retirement each time.

Should Ricciardo lose his second place, it would make this race the first without a Red Bull in the top three since last year's Spanish GP, when the team was still hamstrung by the initially fragile 2013 Pirellis and the rostrum was filled by Ferrari and Lotus drivers.

And it would elevate Button to third, putting two McLarens in the top three for the first time since the 2012 Chinese GP, when Button and Hamilton finished in that order behind today's winner Rosberg's Mercedes.

It would also be pretty devastating for Ricciardo and Australia...

While we wait for those updates, why not have a look at some of the best images to be snapped over the course of the weekend?

 Australian GP photo gallery

As well as the outcome in the Ricciardo controversy (and Red Bull's response to it), we'll also bring you more news about Vettel's tough day shortly.

BEN ANDERSON has been getting the inside line from Renault's Remi Taffin on what left the world champion ranting in frustration on team radio.

Melbourne podium

One interesting aspect of the situation is that the FIA report on what parts were changed overnight on Daniel Ricciardo's car shows that the fuel flow meter on his car was replaced.

There has been plenty of discussion in recent days about the accuracy of the FIA-supplied parts.

There is a large media scrum outside the Red Bull garage in the paddock - as everyone waits for an update of what is happening.

Daniel Ricciardo walked in to the garage about 30 minutes ago and has been seen speaking to the team. Still no official news on a decision yet though.

You can view a more concise round-up of the biggest talking points in the middle of our Australian Grand Prix race report.

Worth a look just to try and recall everything that happened in something of a hectic season opener.

There's still a media encampment outside Red Bull in the Melbourne paddock as it approaches 11pm.

JONATHAN NOBLE has been waiting there to pick up on any news from team boss Christian Horner, as the stewards' deliberations over the Ricciardo fuel issue go into a third hour.

Of course, the reality is that the Force India drove a very strong grand prix - and ran fourth for much of the first half of the race.

Then again, that's not surprising anymore, is it?

Caterham and Lotus

Lotus has been pretty upbeat about getting as far as it did in the Australian GP. But the team that won in Melbourne last year still found itself racing Marcus Ericsson's Caterham for position this time around.

AUTOSPORT's technical expert CRAIG SCARBOROUGH reckoned the Lotus design had a lot of promise when it first emerged though, so will the car fly when it gets some miles?