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
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.
Also VCARB screwing tsunoda as usual after a brilliant weekend upto that point
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.
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 💚
The full Ferrari experience™️
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.
Worst race directing for a Grand Prix yet… I felt so confused half the time because they NEVER SHOWED WHAT HAPPENED
And for most of the race the leaderboard was not showing the time distance between the drivers
They broke it for 1/3 of the race. Before they switched it off I realised the numbers weren’t updating for over a lap. They turned on the driver tracker map to try and compensate, and kept flashing up gap between driver headlines at the bottom of the screen
My beloved Ferrari, with their usual expertise.
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
fun race overall
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!