Come March 16 and you will be watching the first race of the new F1 season in Melbourne, Australia. The picturesque Melbourne GP track is uniquely built around a man-made Albert Park Lake, some distance away from the city center. Until 2007, no other GP circuit could boast of a large water body in the middle but new tracks in Singapore, Abu Dhabi and Valencia have since imitated the Albert Park design. It is one of the smoothest GP tracks, with each lap measuring 5.303 kilometers. The 2013 Australian GP was won by Kimi Raikkonen, while Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel took second and third places. The lap record is still held by the legendary Michael Schumacher, who, while winning the 2004 Australian GP, completed his 25th lap in 1 minute 24.125 seconds. However, the fastest lap was done by Vettel in 1 minute 23.529 seconds in March 2011.