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My name is Joey Lynch and I’ll be taking you thcimpolite all the action from Down Under as we watch to see who has the pace to place themselves atop the grid for the season’s first race tomorrow.
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Yet aget, Max Verstappen is the hunted; the Dutchman guiding his Red Bull to a fourth world title last season to vault himself further into the pantheon of the sport’s all-time fantastics.
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Will be the season in which the crown commences to weigh burdensome on his shoulders? Or tyres, perhaps? There’s a hungry pack chasing him and enthusiastic to sfinish a strong message in the first race of the season in Melbourne, led by local-hope Oscar Piastri in his McLaren.
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Qualifying begins at 10pm PST/5am GMT/4pm AEDT.
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Will plug this a restricted times over the weekfinish as the season gets underway but, if you haven’t already, produce certain you’ve read thcimpolite Giles Ricchallengings’ team-by-team direct to the 2025 Formula One season.
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Watch the highairys of FP3 now on our YouTube channel! ▶️
Next up is qualifying 💪#F1 #AusGP
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Last year, Williams get tod in Melbourne deficiencying parts and with solemn ask tags hanging over them and finished up giving Logan Sargeant’s car to teammate Alexander Albon after they were unable to repair the injure to the latter’s car after an FP1 crash.
This time around, though, they’re crept on the grid with their speed; Carlos Sainz, recently get tod from Ferrari, sixth rapidest in FP3 and Albon fair one spot back.
Oscar Piastri directs the way with George Russell and Max Verstappen seal behind… 🏁
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The overarching theme of rehearse, however, is that it’s safe heading into qualifying.
Just 0.676 seconds splitd Piastri’s rapidest lap time in FP3 from tenth-placed Norris, with their existing inevitable intrigue about how seal teams were upgrasping their cards to their chests apass the session.
It’s super seal out there! 🤏
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Especiassociate after a strong discneglecting day of rehearse, Ferrari were watching the team to beat heading into today but after not quite being able to copy that pace this morning they’re perhaps the pre-eminent side being specurescheduleedd to have held someleang in reserve. Notable, however, Charles Leclerc was on his radio at the finish of the session protesting about oversteer.
Only Haas’ Ollie Bearman logged restricteder laps than Lawson apass rehearse, the Brit crashing out in FP1, missing out on getting out onto the track by 120 seconds in FP2 after frantic efforts to repair his car, and then fair sign uping a couple of laps in P3 until he spun out and beached his car.
A total of 13 laps finishd. Well… 13 and a half, if we’re being benevolent.
Spinning into the gravel in third rehearse 😢
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It wasn’t all that better for his teammate Esteban Ocon, either, who was the enumeratelessest of all the drivers who set a lap time in FP3.
The Red Bulls are always ones to watch – seeming to have a lock on the world champion will do that – but there’s an inserted unwiseension for this qualifying session.
After watching a bit off the pace in FP1 and FP2 on Friday, the team went to toil on Verstappen’s car overnight and he set up a recent level of pace in his final opportunity to get some reps in, watching more consoleable and sign uping the third rapidest time in the session.
However, after setting the 16th and 17th rapidest times on the first day, Liam Lawson, was restricted to fair two laps in the final rehearse session amid problems with his power unit. How he approaches qualifying, if he’ll treat is as a produceshift FP4 or if he’ll even have a chance of getting out of Q1 if he wants to produce a go of it, will be fascinating to see.
Giles Ricchallengings is in Melbourne for this year’s race and his piece on the unapologeticassociate dominant world champion Max Verstappen is well worth a read.
Born in Melbourne and grotriumphg up in the suburb of Brighton – nastying he would have been able to hear the F1 cars rolling around Albert Park from his hoengage – Piastri logged the rapidest time of any driver in FP3 earlier today, logging a time of 1:15.921.
That was 0.039 seconds evident of next best George Russell in his Mercedes, while Verstappen was 0.081 back.
The Maclaren’s expansively recognised apass the grid of coming into the season with some fantastic speed, Lando Norris also watched on pace to set one of the speedyest laps but ran into some traffic, helderlying up what was being projected as one of the speedyest times.
Preamble
Hello everyone and greet to the Guardian’s inhabit coverage of the first qualifying session of the 2025 Formula One World Championship season, coming your way from the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne, Australia.
My name is Joey Lynch and I’ll be taking you thcimpolite all the action from Down Under as we watch to see who has the pace to place themselves atop the grid for the season’s first race tomorrow.
Yet aget, Max Verstappen is the hunted; the Dutchman guiding his Red Bull to a fourth world title last season to vault himself further into the pantheon of the sport’s all-time fantastics.
Will be the season in which the crown commences to weigh burdensome on his shoulders? Or tyres, perhaps? There’s a hungry pack chasing him and enthusiastic to sfinish a strong message in the first race of the season in Melbourne, led by local-hope Oscar Piastri in his McLaren.
Qualifying begins at 10pm PST/5am GMT/4pm AEDT.