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Event

Australian Grand Prix

Date
Sun 16th March 2025 (UTC)
Sun 16th March 2025 (Local)

Timestamp
2025-03-16T04:00:00

Time

04:00:00 UTC (15:00:00 Local)

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League
Formula 1

Season
2025

Round
1

Status
Match Finished

Location
Albert Park Circuit

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Description

The 2025 Australian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Louis Vuitton Australian Grand Prix 2025) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 16 March 2025 at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria. It was the first round of the 2025 Formula One World Championship.

Lando Norris in the McLaren on pole position,

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Result List

01	Lando Norris	1:42:06.304
02	Max Verstappen	+0.895s
03	George Russell	+8.481s
04	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	+10.135s
05	Alexander Albon	+12.773s
06	Lance Stroll	+17.413s
07	Nico Hulkenberg	+18.423s
08	Charles Leclerc	+19.826s
09	Oscar Piastri	+20.448s
10	Lewis Hamilton	+22.473s
11	Pierre Gasly	+26.502s
12	Yuki Tsunoda	+29.884s
13	Esteban Ocon	+33.161s
14	Oliver Bearman	+40.351s

Result Description
The race was held under changing, intermediate conditions. Isack Hadjar crashed his Racing Bull during the formation lap, resulting in an abandoned start and 10-minute delay. Lando Norris in the McLaren led a majority of the race. He briefly lost the lead to Max Verstappen when Norris and teammate Oscar Piastri lost control in intermediate conditions, with Norris boxing shortly afterward. Having lost control, Piastri was beached for a short time before he freed himself, dropping to thirteenth and later recovering to ninth after a late pass on Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton.

Verstappen, in the Red Bull, was trailing Norris as the race reached its closing stages. Norris kept Verstappen behind to win the Grand Prix, bringing McLaren its first win in Australia since Jenson Button did so for the team in 2012. In doing so, Norris led the Drivers' Championship for the first time in his career, and broke Verstappen's reign in the lead of the championship, which he had held since the 2022 Spanish Grand Prix. Having been briefly penalised, dropping him to fifth before his team lodged an appeal, which was upheld, Andrea Kimi Antonelli in the Mercedes recovered twelve places from his sixteenth-place start to finish in fourth, and his points finish made him the second-youngest Formula One driver to have scored a point.

Six retirements were observed, all for accidents on track, for which three safety car periods were observed: Hadjar, during the formation lap, Jack Doohan for Alpine, Carlos Sainz Jr. for Williams, Fernando Alonso for Aston Martin, Gabriel Bortoleto for Sauber, and Verstappen's teammate Liam Lawson. Sainz's teammate, Alex Albon, scored a highest finish of fifth for Williams, the first time the team has done such since the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix. Alonso's teammate Lance Stroll finished in sixth, and Sauber's Nico Hülkenberg seventh, placing them above Ferrari, who had a disappointing season opener with Charles Leclerc finishing in eighth and Hamilton tenth. The Haas duo of Oliver Bearman and Esteban Ocon rounded off the bottom two.
ahead of Max Verstappen in the Red Bull Racing and George Russell in the Mercedes. Norris' victory marked McLaren's first at Melbourne since 2012. Andrea Kimi Antonelli in the Mercedes finished fourth.

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