Norris wins dramatic 2025 F1 Australian GP as several crash
16th March 2025McLaren’s Lando Norris has taken the first win of the 2025 Formula 1 world championship in a wet-dry-wet Australian Grand Prix.
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Norris has continued where he left off in 2024, as the British driver secured the season-opening race win in Melbourne at the Australian Grand Prix.
It was not an easy feat for the McLaren #4 car as he had to contend with changing conditions as it went from wet to dry and from dry to wet.
He also led a few safety car restarts as five cars crashed out throughout the race: Alpine’s Jack Doohan, Williams’ Carlos Sainz, Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto and Red Bull Racing’s Liam Lawson. Racing Bull’s Isack Hadjar was the exception as the French rookie crashed out before the race started.
McLaren was on course for a 1-2 victory, but a late heavy downpour saw both drivers go off the track in the final sector (T12). Norris was able to return and slip into the pit lane for a new set of tyres, after they changed to the slicks earlier on.
Lando, Max and George. Take a bow 👏#F1 #AusGP pic.twitter.com/9jG6SNkrDx
— Formula 1 (@F1) March 16, 2025
Oscar Piastri, on the other hand, didn’t share the same fate as he beached himself on the grass. He reversed and returned to the track, and pits for a tyre change, albeit at the bottom end of the pack.
In the end, Norris managed to hold off the late charge from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to take his first win of the season as the Dutchman finished second. Mercedes’ George Russell completed the podium in third.
Naturally, this win puts Norris as the driver’s championship leader. McLaren maintained the top spot as the constructors leader with two points in hand over second-place Mercedes, helped by Piastri’s recovery to ninth.
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