Australian GP: ‘Spectacular’ Lando Norris win and Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari debut assessed by Martin Brundle | F1 News happymamay

That was a wonderful and reassuring start for the 2025 F1 season. We had great expectations for a competitive and attractive season, giving him a lot of noise in advance, and it seems that we will not be disappointed.

Lando Norris and McLaren were a really great event. In the qualifiers, both his teammate Oscar Baysri assembled the first round in the final stage of the twentieth operation, but then they both delivered amazing rolls under pressure in the last seconds to lock the front, with Norris to reach the pole. Despite the challenges and chaos to be followed on the race day, the start of eight meters long on the network will be pivotal for Lando.

The race day was to be wet, but the expected volume of water was inconsistent between the difference. The coastal site does not help, heavy rains and stormy conditions disrupts supportive races and guarantee a wet path to start the Grand Prix race.

Melbourne always has a minute timetable with a fixed and continuous path from Thursday on Thursday. This means that a lot of rubber is placed in the race on the path of the path used but once a year, which was then baked at high temperatures and sunlight. When the water falls above it, along with the abundant lines painted in this public park throughout the year, it can feel a low ice grip.

Thus, the scene was appointed to a difficult race, and even before the beginning, we saw cars sliding into the network, and after that, ISCK Hadjar was revolving in the race in the barriers on the bosom of training and retirement immediately.

The start that is frustrated from tense nerves on the network or in the hole can not help. Away from the beginning in the end, Norris just holds the lead, slowed down a little from the first three places, but his pole that he got hard has kept him in the foreground and in driving.

Piastri holds the role of Max Verstapen quickly, but both McLarens went violently on the outlet under the power and Verstapen was to second place. In the first race, Jacques Douuhan was arrested by the white lines under acceleration and changed equipment and was in the barriers.

A safety car was required, and during this Carlos Science, Williams simply stunned his own business with a gentle acceleration and partially turned, making another retirement in the barriers without completing a full -racing racing roll.

When we finally got to the race, it soon became a three -horsepower race between McLaren and Verstapen. The pressure was intense at the extreme, but Noris remained significantly quiet at first, and restarted many restarts after safety cars, and with his mirrors either full of his teammate, Versaben, or both.

“My buttocks were tight!”

I realized part of the race, although I just talking about it in a dry comment box, I was tense. I had a knot in my stomach, I was tense, and I apologized for spoiling your day, but the buttocks were tight.

I know that feeling well when you are in a race and fully realize that each turn of the wheel or pressing a pedal can mean crash at any time. In the middle of the night in the Le Mans, 220 miles per hour and reach a sudden rain shower on the stain tires immediately stems in my mind in writing this.

Those who managed to stay in the course should all clap; Such a challenge was. Even the great and wise Fernando Alonso was disgusting due to water and gravel emulsion and coherent, which means a heavy journey in the wall in Aston Martin.

Then many radio calls were heard to advise drivers that there is a short explosion of heavy rains that may hit the circle. When I did it, all hell erupted. McLarens sailed from the path and through grass and gravel, Noris is about keeping it together and forming medium tires, although it has damaged the air body somewhat.

PiaSSTRI went further, kept more speed, and when you reach the next narrow left hairpin simply slip on more wet grass. He eventually persuaded her from there in the opposite, but he would lose a bosom. A big shame because everything was in the competition for victory like Norris.

Elect the Red Bull to keep Versabpen in the hope that the rain shower will be short and sharp. At a time when they had little, but electing the same in the next lap was a very far gamble in terms of trying to extract the introduction during the arrival of the rain.

Now although it was a two -horse racing to the end on fresh intermediate frames – under the sun, can you believe – between the championship champions last year Noris and Versaben.

Norris was very fast in all restarting and doing it again. But dipping a tire in the gravel on the famous turn, lost time and Versabpen was on its tail with the open open DRS wings available now. With a very quiet advice and wise from his engineer Will Youssef on the wall of the hole, Lando was not packed at the slightest, and he won amazingly, and he actually won successive races after his victory in Abu Dhabi late last year. It leads the world championship for the first time, the first time in 1029 days led anyone other than Max.

Max led a great race as well, but the truth is that even in marginal conditions, or if it was dry, without safety cars, McLaren Duo is likely to dominate.

George Russell was out of the picture throughout the day, but he ended a third of Mercedes, and the first possible from many platforms this year. They will need to find some speed to arrest McLaren.

His teenage colleague Kimi Antonelli led the first great mature award race. Despite the rapid rotation in turn, he made some great transgressions, and continued to move forward at a solid race – it was often identical to Russell – and despite a penalty kick in stopping the unsafe hole that was later canceled, he ranked fourth. Mercedes has another star at their hands and leading the team championship with McLaren.

It is not related, of course, but both MERCS incited in a very appropriate time and calm for the last time in the 44 lap.

“A disappointing start for Hilmlton”

On this topic, despite many happy words, and the reasons that make him learn the steering wheel and other new aspects, Luis Hamilton was a disappointing start for his professional life Ferrari by any scale.

In the eighth place on the network, his teammate Leclerc succeeded, losing a little in the first corner, and after Williams Alex Alex for what appeared to be an era, then he was passed out to the quick rotation nine through the amazing PiaSSTri on the final roll – Louis ships to one point in the tenth place, it was not what should be.

I don’t understand why Louis was very angry with his engineer Ricardo Adami, who felt he was simply trying to pass on the relevant and useful information. Everything has already collapsed for Ferrari when they rolled the dice on the dry tires on a wet path and lost severely on the path of both drivers, and left Australia in seventh place in the tournament.

There were 14 indifference, and in fifth place Alex Albon, who performed a great performance for Lilloms throughout the weekend, was in a group of a team and driver heading for a good season.

In sixth place, Lance Stroll closed some valuable points for Aston Martin in a car that looks out of the leading pace at the present time. We have seen Lance well in wet conditions before and this was not different. It is worth remembering for those who easily removed him because his father owns the team.

It is clear that Niko Holkenburg responded to my deep and detailed advice on the network on how to deal with the race, as he recorded some points that affect the need for the Sapper team. Another survivor a day, the first Ferrari engine was 1.4 seconds before Leclerc.

Liam Lawson will be from Red Bull, in particular, very happy because we immediately go to another race week so that he can stop the misery and the mistakes he carried in Melbourne and put them right. This team does not do the embrace and reassuring words, and it should not be at this level. P45s is something more if you cannot keep at least in a width from time to time.

NORRIS has moved the mental and driving game significantly, and an immediate 23 -point feature on PiaSSTRI may also be very important. We are waiting to see his performance in the inevitable fighting of the wheel with both Piastri and Verstapen. Stay followers.

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