Lando Norris tamed the chaos in Melbourne to win the opening spherical of the F1 season. In doing so, he put down a marker for his team-mate Oscar Piastri, his rival Max Verstappen, and anybody else who needs a say on this 12 months’s world championship.
Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari debut didn’t fairly go to plan, whereas F1’s five-and-a-half rookies (Liam Lawson being a semi) had a torrid time. From Isack Hadjar’s tears to Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s vindication, we analyse the debuts of the category of ’25.
In the meantime, as dozens of recent sponsors pour into F1, Stefano Domenicali signed a brand new five-year contract to stay F1 CEO. He promptly signed the groups as much as the business a part of a brand new Concorde Settlement. However there is no such thing as a signal but of a governance settlement from the FIA, so what does all of it imply for the sequence?
With James to debate these and different speaking factors are World Editorial director Rebecca Clancy and fresh-ish off the aircraft from Melbourne, Motorsport Editor in Chief, Ben Hunt.
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