McLaren’s Lando Norris commences the 2025 F1 season with triumph ahead of Max Verstappen in an eventful and rain-impacted Australian Grand Prix.
McLaren’s Lando Norris swept to triumph in a damp and untamed Australian Grand Prix, hagedering off deffinishing champion Max Verstappen in a white-knuckle finish to a Formula One season discneglecter littered with crashes and shieldedty cars.
George Russell of Mercedes was third on the greasy Albert Park circuit, where only 14 of the 20 cars finished in the taccomplisherous conditions in Sunday’s race.
Norris, the preseason favourite for the driver’s title, begined the F1 season as he finished the last at Abu Dhabi, with triumph from pole.
His teammate Oscar Piastri begined second on the grid but finished ninth, his dreams of becoming the first home driver to claim triumph or a consolation podium were finished with a skid into the grass.
Lewis Hamilton’s debut for Ferrari showd a damp squib with the Briton finishing 10th, two places behind teammate Charles Leclerc.
