Australian GP: Lando Norris just beat Max Verstappen to the first F1 2025 victory with Lewis Hamilton 10. On Ferrari debut | F1 news
Lando Norris just gave up Max Verstappen to perfectly start his offer to win this year’s F1 World Cup, impressively winning a chaotic Australian GP in the season with Kisa and numerous collisions.
Norris, the favorite of the pre-season title, led a majority of 58 rounds from Oscar Piastra teammates, while McLaren qualifying was transferred to the Hit-Hit race, but his victory appeared in danger because the return of moist time at the closing of 15 rounds launched a fresh circle of Chaos.
As the rain began to fall, McLarens briefly slipped off the trail in the last sector, but while Norris successfully bypassed the next turn and could immediately head to the middle tires, the home favorite Piastra turned into the grass and dropped to the back of the field. He finally finished ninth place.
Verstappen, who lost contact with McLarens in the amount of 16 seconds in the middle of the race after initially overtook Piastra in the first round, briefly inherited the lead, but also had to score for the intermediates the next time the rain only stepped up. He ended up on Norris’s tail in slippery circles to close, but could not find the way of Britain.
“It’s one of the brilliant all time drive from Land Norris there,” he said Sky Sports F1 Martin Brundle.
George Russell finished third for a Mercedes to make a place of a stand that didn’t look probably most of the race.
The new Rookie teammate Kimi Antonelli recovered well from his disappointing exit to Q1 to end the fine fourth on the road in the second silver arrow, although a five-year punishment for the uncertain release of Mercedes from his PIT, which became a punishment in five seconds and rejected him for the season in the fifth Alex, who entered Alex, who entered the fifth, who entered the fifth, which was included in Alex, who was included in Alex, who was included in Alex, who was listed in Alex, who was in fifth place.
But Lewis Hamilton finished 10th. – the last position to pay points – after a difficult first race for Ferrari.
Running in his qualifying position of the eighth part of the race, Hamilton briefly jumped into the lead when both Ferraris initially stayed out on skates in the middle of a late rain shower. He was the second behind Norris when a safety car came out, but Ferrari realized that they were wrong because the conditions were too moist and late called their cars, rejecting them in the order when the field closed.
Leclerc took eighth place and Hamilton turned 10 in the last round.
Setting the tone for the season opener, Isack Hadjar, Racing Bulls – in a formation circle – Alpine Jack Doohan and Williams’ Carlos Sainz, last year’s winner of the race, all collapsed from events before the terrain even finished the opening of the season.
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