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Everything we learned from F1's 2025 season opener
Formula 1’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix revealed which teams may live up to pre-season expectations and, more interestingly, which are in worse shape.
From the best the weekend had to offer to the car weaknesses, team issues and driver mistakes that left others on the back foot already, here’s everything we learned in Melbourne.No shortcut for HamiltonLewis Hamilton’s Ferrari debut wa...
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Norris might still need a car advantage to control Verstappen
Towards the back end of the 2024 Formula 1 season, once Max Verstappen had put the drivers’ championship properly out of reach for Lando Norris, we debated what Norris needed to do to go one better in 2025.Beyond the nitpicking we did over the tactical imbalance between them created by Red Bull’s early 2024 dominance, or Norris being a bit behind the curve when it comes to hard racing against the ...
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Edd Straw's 2025 Australian Grand Prix F1 driver rankings
Formula 1’s 2025 season-opening Australian Grand Prix provided challenging weather, but that was no excuse for some of the weekend-wrecking errors by drivers across the F1 experience range.Here’s Edd Straw’s judgement on the field.How do the rankings work? The 20 drivers will be ranked in order of performance from best to worst on each grand prix weekend. This will be based on the full range of cr...
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Norris might still need a car advantage to control Verstappen
Towards the back end of the 2024 Formula 1 season, once Max Verstappen had put the drivers’ championship properly out of reach for Lando Norris, we debated what Norris needed to do to go one better in 2025.Beyond the nitpicking we did over the tactical imbalance between them created by Red Bull’s early 2024 dominance, or Norris being a bit behind the curve when it comes to hard racing against the ...
Read more: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/lando-norris-still-needs-car-advantage-to-beat-verstappen/
Mark Hughes: Everything Norris overcame for statement victory
Through a wild Melbourne race Lando Norris got to experience how it feels to be the favourite, the chaser, the pre-season title favourite. It’s one thing to have the fastest car – which the McLaren very clearly was around Albert Park – quite another to withstand the intense pressure points that this weather-randomised event threw up. In a situation where he’d be absolutely aware that this could se...
Mercedes gets Antonelli's penalty overturned
Mercedes has successfully overturned Kimi Antonelli's five-second penalty for an unsafe pitstop release that initially dropped the rookie from fourth to fifth in Formula 1's Australian Grand Prix.Antonelli had made a strong charge up the field from 16th on the grid to run fourth at the end, but was given a sanction for an incident that happened during the late switch to intermediates.The stewards ...
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Hamilton's verdict on his 'crash course' Ferrari F1 race debut
Lewis Hamilton said a "crash course" in finding out how to drive his Ferrari Formula 1 car in the wet left him grateful to just make it to the finish of the Australian Grand Prix.While the seven-time F1 champion's 10th place result was below expectations, Hamilton said that his hopes of doing any better were dashed by a lack of confidence in how his car handled in the rain.For bonus insight direct...
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Piastri's reaction to spinning Australia podium away
Oscar Piastri has admitted the error that cost him a podium finish in Formula 1's Australian Grand Prix will "hurt" for a while, admitting his late race spin was the result of him pushing too hard for the conditions.The Australian was locked in a tight lead battle with McLaren team-mate Lando Norris when the pair both ran off the track at Turn 12 with 13 laps to go amid a downpour.While Norris man...
Winners and losers from F1's 2025 Australian Grand Prix
With a crash before the race had even begun, rain on and off all day and a lot of late twists, there's an ample list of winners and losers for us to assess after Formula 1's 2025 season-opening Australian Grand Prix.Loser - Oscar PiastriThere was a point during the middle phase of the race where Oscar Piastri looked like he might win it. The track was drying out, Max Verstappen had front brake-loc...
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The forewarnings of Antonelli's incredible F1 debut - and his verdict
Kimi Antonelli’s Formula 1 debut at the 2025 Australian Grand Prix might fall under the radar given it was such an eventful race, but it really shouldn’t. This wasn’t a faultless weekend from the hyped-up debutant, nor would it ever have been given the conditions and the context: warm on Friday; hot on Saturday; rainy and cold on Sunday. The rookies were being run through the gauntlet.Antonelli di...
Our verdict on F1's chaotic Australian GP + 2025 title fight clues
Formula 1's 2025 season kicked off in style with a chaotic rain-affected Australian Grand Prix. But what did we learn from the chaos about the shape of the 2025 title fight and its potential protagonists? Here's what our team made of the race...An early title twistScott Mitchell-MalmThe biggest shame from the late chaos is it removed Oscar Piastri from victory contention and a big points haul. McL...
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Australian Grand Prix F1 race result 2025
Lando Norris clung on through a race of wild mixed weather to win the 2025 Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix.Full race reportWith McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri losing second when he spun during a late-race downpour, Max Verstappen grabbed second for Red Bull and piled pressure on Norris to the finish.Results1 Lando Norris (McLaren)2 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)3 George Russell (Mercede...
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Norris wins wild wet-dry Australian GP
Lando Norris survived a chaotic end to win Formula 1’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix but McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri spun away second place in his home race.McLaren had dominated the first race of the year with Norris and Piastri pulling over 15 seconds clear of Max Verstappen’s Red Bull before Fernando Alonso dropped his Aston Martin at Turn 6 to kick off a wild end to the race.Once a ...
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'Embarrassed' Hadjar explains pre-race crash on his F1 debut
Isack Hadjar may now hold the unhappy record for the shortest ever Formula 1 race debut having crashed at the first corner of the formation lap ahead of the Australian Grand Prix.The Racing Bulls rookie spun on the way out of Turn 1 in the slippery Melbourne conditions, breaking his car's rear wing on the barrier and causing the race start to be delayed."Just embarrassed and sorry for the team," s...
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How many pole positions does each 2025 F1 driver have?
Nine of the 20 drivers lining up on the Formula 1 grid in 2025 have set pole position for an F1 grand prix.Lewis Hamilton tops the list for the most pole positions of any individual driver in F1 history, and has almost as many to his name as the other eight drivers on this list combined!Here we detail how many pole positions each 2025 F1 driver has and where they rank on F1's all-time list.In 2021...
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The overlooked F1 2025 change that could transform Australian GP
Wet weather brings an added degree of uncertainty for Formula 1 races, but the expected rain set to hit the Australian Grand Prix could have a bigger impact than normal.A combination of teams and drivers having no experience of their cars in the rain, uncertainty surrounding a new-for-2025 wet tyre, a bunch of rookie drivers, and a track that offers quite low grip, has left F1 figures wary about h...
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What first real Hamilton/Leclerc Ferrari comparison revealed
Ferrari’s disappointing Australian Grand Prix qualifying performance still afforded the first meaningful comparison between new Formula 1 team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.Hamilton will start his first race for Ferrari eighth, one place behind Leclerc after qualifying 0.238s slower - a deficit the seven-time world champion was a lot happier with than a lot of his qualifying defeats to ...
McLaren's real F1 advantage may be smaller than this
The numbers from Formula 1 pre-season testing and the 2025 Australian Grand Prix weekend so far have undermined the best efforts of McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri to downplay their supremacy. A front-row lockout with an advantage of almost four tenths over the next-fastest car, Max Verstappen's Red Bull, shored up a favourite tag that has become more robust with every day of on-tra...
Mark Hughes: Why McLaren's thrashing Red Bull and Ferrari
Lando Norris's Australian Grand Prix pole was 0.385 seconds faster than the best non-McLaren, rather confirming the opposition's pre-weekend fears.An all-papaya front row, with Oscar Piastri right there, less than 0.1s behind and with a fairytale home victory all to play for and no team orders.But just as McLaren delivered around a track at which it was very easy not to, it initially looked like t...
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Winners and losers from F1 2025's first qualifying
We were promised an exciting first qualifying session of the 2025 Formula 1 season and Saturday in Melbourne didn't disappoint, even if the battle for pole ended up being a rather one-sided affair.Who got it right, and who's already starting the season considerably on the back foot?Here's our pick of winners and losers from qualifying at Albert Park.Loser - Ferrari Ferrari can't be anything other ...
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