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
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Was Perez bad or is the Red Bull simply undriveable if you’re not Verstappen?
Did Ferrari go after Hamilton simply for the ad revenue and not for possible future race results?
Is there a point to Aston Martin if they keep going backwards each season?
:P
Was Perez bad or is the Red Bull simply undriveable if you’re not Verstappen?
The red bull pretty difficult to drive. It has pace but suffers from understeer and oversteer at different stages of corners, sometimes even in the same corner. If you are somehow able to dance on this knife edge, you can extract some good laps but for that one needs to be ridiculously talented and adaptable like max, fernando, lewis(the ferrari stint will determine our views on his adaptability), etc.
The fact is even max says he doesn’t like the how the current red bull handles and struggles to keep it under control. Just imagine how hard it must be to handle for others
I think we can already make reasonable assessments about Hamilton’s (lack of) adaptability from the last few years of Mercedes, can’t we? He’s clearly struggled with that car whenever it’s not felt just the way he likes it.
Frankly, until last year, he was still outperforming russell in the races and in the championship positions
He looked better when the car was good, but worse when the car was bad. Which is kind of what I meant, he didn’t seem as adaptable even though his ceiling in terms of race pace was higher than Russel’s.
Was Perez bad or is the Red Bull simply undriveable if you’re not Verstappen?
Ricciardo, Gasley, Albon, Perez, and now Lawson; they’ve all been paired with Verstappen and only one man has got the best of that car.
The setup changes Red Bull made based on the late simulator runs seems to have made it competitive at the expense of making jt hard to drive.
Does not look good for Red Bull if they haven’t tamed that same behaviour from last year as eventually it got so bad even Max couldn’t drive it. Does not bode well for their season.
Lawson is clearly struggling because of this, as did Checo as they just aren’t that the same level as Max in a bad car. Yuki is doing so well, and Red Bull will be like “I’m going to pretend I didn’t see that.”
Both Williams in Q3. Lets fucking go
Haha and one is ahead of both Ferraris. This sparks so much joy
Not a good showing for Ferrari but I’ll take it
- Bearman washed
- Lawson washed
- Antonelli washed
- Hulk washed
- Ferrari washed
We’re so back
Williams notably NOT washed
Tsunoda 5th! Albon 6th!
Not Ferrari’s finest showing.
Austrian commentary right now: “Piastri now has 7 front-row lockouts without a pole. That stat was also held by Bruce McLaren.”
Boy is meant to be McLaren’s golden child.
Yuki channeling all his hate and anger over being overlooked for the red bull seat into lap time
Is it too soon to predict a mid-season swap between Yuki and Lawson, Yuki performs consistent points finishes to be the number 2 Red Bull have been searching for, he remains at Red Bull for many years while Horner loudly grumbles until he retires?
Yeah… Tramnitz is getting a Red Bull seat before Yuki.
If Lawson flops completely there is no point in keeping him around and putting him in the VCARB. It’ll be Lindblad coming in if that is the case.
Williams vs Ferrari. Close enough welcome back 1997.
A Sauber knocking out a Mercedes. Q1 is starting off interesting.
The field is so close
Hope that Williams has the race pace to make this even more interesting.
Lawson continuing the tradition of the Redbull No.2…🤦🏻♂️
Good enough. Welcome back Checo /s
Bad weekend for Bearman turning to worse :/
Loving the updated driver cams with their wider FOV. Gives a better sense of speed.
Bortoletto, wow. Beat Hulk fair and square.
Not a great quali lap for Lawson.
I’ll reiterate what I said regarding Antonelli and Lawson. Outqualified by Bortoletto in a Sauber.
Doohan cleared all the rookies, he is safe for the moment.
Isn’t Hadjar ahead?
I made that comment after Q1.
I think Antonelli had unfortunate floor damage and Lawson seemed to have cooked his tires midway through the lap. Tomorrow will be interesting how they will work their way up the field.
Racing Bulls car looking very pretty driving around track.
Turn1 will be very interesting tomorrow. Definitely looking forward to the race.
