ROUND 1: 🇦🇺 Australia
FORMULA 1 LOUIS VUITTON AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2025
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 1996
- Number of laps: 58
- Circuit Length: 5.278 km
- Race Distance: 306.124 km
- Lap record: 1:19.813 Charles Leclerc (2024)
- 2024 winner: Carlos Sainz
Track Map
Great race! Amazing drive from Albon. Yuki should have been up there too but typical VCARB strategy screwed him.
Antonelli finishing 4th on debut just like Hamilton is forboding.
Happy for Norris, amped for Williams and Albon. Sucks Sainz went out early. Ferrari doing Ferrari shit still, Yuki got screwed a bit. I’m sure conditions jumbled it a bit, but Verstappen not looking as far off the pace as people were assuming, in a worse car, in hard conditions. I’m sure Norris was strategizing and coasting a bit, cause those McLarens held up those initial intermediates well and it seemed other cars were burning through them.
Well deserved win for Norris. Feels like there was every opportunity for events to screw the fastest driver in the fastest car, despite the team making the right calls at the right time.
Often in f1 this kind of race ends up with a surprise winner. It’s part of what makes the sport so great, but also so frustrating at times. With Max having been so dominant over the past few seasons it’s just nice to see McLaren not dropping the ball.
I feel bad for Alonso. The track had an absurd amount of gravel sprayed over it and he clipped it slightly and lost it entirely.
He could have had a really good result too, judging by where Stroll and Kimi ended up. P5 might have been on for Fernando. The car might not be as bad as I had feared (still not great).I was watching onboards and lap times and Alonso was gapping Stroll and keeping Antonelli behind him just before the crash.
I was watching onboards and lap times and Alonso was gapping Stroll
To be fair,
stroll was on wets on a drying track so that was not such a big achievement. Yes he would have finished ahead of stroll, but I don’t think he would have finished ahead of kimi or albonStroll was never on full wets as far as I know. They were both on old Inters at the time. It’s true he was probably using his tires more than Kimi to hold him off, but we don’t know for sure. Kimi himself seemed to be falling off in pace and struggling to catch up to Alonso so I think he was burning through his tyres as well. Of course the safety car that enabled Stroll to get 6th was caused by Alonso so I should revise my previous statement anyway since he’s not getting there without a SC.
Yeah I just checked. Stroll was on the wets during the first formation lap (the one where Hadjar crashed). They changed it before the next start and stroll was never shown again so I thought he was still on wets. My bad
McLaren fucked Piastri’s race when they asked him not to overtake Norris.
Just finished watching, thankfully managed to avoid spoilers. What a start to the season! Pace of McLaren is a bit ominous in terms of competitive outlook for the season however. But I hope they let them race eachother so we get a title fight at least.
Super happy for Albon, Williams looked genuinely fast and he drove well in tricky conditions. Ferrari looked nowhere and actually slower than Williams, but it’s a weird circuit and difficult conditions so it might not be quite as bad as it looks. Hamilton looked significantly worse than Leclerc, but I guess we’re still in the “new team grace period”?
Tough day for the rookies as you would expect with the weather, but I was extremely impressed by Antonelli. Watched his onboard all race and he had great pace even in the rain and absolutely no fear.
Gutted for Yuki though who got the usual VCARB screw job after a blinder of a weekend performance wise. It’s enough to make you cry.
If this is what 2025 has to offer, I’m so ready for it!
My beloved Ferrari, with their usual expertise.
Thoroughly enjoyable grand prix. Deserved winner in Norris who had pole, fastest lap and P1. Great drive from Max as well and also Albon and Hulkenberg. This season is going to be a doozy!
Sainz crashing out behind the safety car. Piastri getting the traditional, ‘Aussie driver at AusGP’ experience. I’m going to need till Tuesday before I can start talking to people again.
What. A. Race.
Norris did extremely well. Mega unfortunate for Piastri.
Huge haul of points for Williams.
Sauber scores more points today than they did all of last year 💀
Disasterclass for Ferrari.
Fantastic debut for Antonelli.
I think the team orders screwed Piastri. He was clearly in the zone and he was quicker than Norris and he definitely wanted to see if he could get past Norris. When the orders came in his flow was ruined and he started to make mistakes. I get what McLaren were going for, but I think it was unfair towards Piastri. If there’s ever a time to let drivers race it out in such conditions it would be the first race of the season, and McLaren didn’t even let them do that.
I think Piastri was faster because Norris was nursing his tires, and Piastri made mistakes because he was pushing it too hard. I think Norris had him beat - not by much - but had him beat by margins throughout the weekend and was a very deserving winner.
Yep, Piastri would get to a gap of 1.1, and then Lando would open up again, he was coasting unless he was protecting from DRS
Also VCARB screwing tsunoda as usual after a brilliant weekend upto that point
fun race overall
I found the race to be mostly boring, and then BAM, in half a lap it became incredibly interesting. So glad I stayed up to watch the race.
I had to wake up at 5 in the morning for it :( Luckily the race didn’t get delayed too much
Williams already have double digit points. Let’s go!
Classic Ferrari.
Hamilton’s engineer has the worst job in F1.
Also I like how Piastri didn’t give up. Great driver.
Kick Sauber outscored their 2024 season in a single race 💚
“DRS Avai…”
“yeah I know, leave me alone.”
I should have had Hamilton’s comms on my screen this race.
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