The 2025 season is underway! The drivers were greeted with warm temperatures during an exciting opening session at Albert Park, as a heavy crash brought out the red flag.
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00:00First practice at the Australian Grand Prix and a big hit for rookie Oliver Behrmann in the Haas brought out the red flags
00:06Hey, okay, Ollie. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's okay. I'll leave the car is safe as long as you're okay
00:12I just got wide on the turn in for ten
00:15Miss the turn in point and then he's just finding that the grips not there as soon as you creep inches out wider
00:20Turn in pick understeer don't get to that apex and it's not been rubbing in quite as much and then he's just snapping
00:27Snapping understeering and then into an oversteer and off wide straight to the barriers
00:33Australia returned to its traditional place in the calendar as the opening round of the
00:372025 Formula One season the first Grand Prix held around Albert Park was back in
00:421996 won by a Williams driver Damon Hill the British team have a decent record around here winning six times
00:50Now with two very experienced drivers in Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon and a car that looks pretty swift
00:55They seem a team on the up and they look quick in FP1 Sainz with the second best luck of the session Albon in
01:02p6
01:04McLaren can boast a great record in Australia to Kings of Adelaide and Melbourne
01:0811 times in all the Woking team are once again to the fore with Lando Norris
01:13Stating that he feels the papaya cars are the favorites this weekend and it was the Britain who came out on top at the flag
01:19He's final dash around the circuit nabbing the fastest time of the day clock to one minute
01:2417 to 5 to
01:26Earlier this week Oscar Piastri inked a multi-year contract extension that will see the Australian race in McLaren colors for the foreseeable future
01:34He finished p4 some four hundreds back from his teammate
01:38Ferrari have the best record in Melbourne victorious here ten times in all with multiple world champions Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel
01:46Contributing to the majority of those wins the Scuderia have another one of the greats driving for them now
01:52Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, who's no slouch around these streets eight times
01:57He's been on pole down under and only twice as he tasted the Victor champagne the last time a full decade ago
02:04He had the honor of the first lockup of the weekend his Ferraris front right smoking as he approached turn three
02:11However, it was Charles Leclerc who seemed to be the hooked-up driver in red setting the third best time
02:17Defending drivers champ Max Verstappen was pushing hard putting a wheel in the gravel at turn seven the Red Bull rapid through the bends
02:24Finishing a fine fifth several new faces on the grid this year
02:28Not all of them complete newbies Liam Lawson formerly of racing bulls has been upgraded to a Red Bull seat
02:34next to Max and was also flirting with the margins in fp1 clipping the wall at one point and
02:41Rearranging one of the trackside camera positions in the process
02:44I uh, I touched the wall just on the entry of turn nine. I just brushed it. We'll have a look
02:50Yeah, we often do see the odd wheel bang here or there that used to be suspension pieces flaking away now
02:57They can get away with it a little bit more and it looks like Lawson is one of those who?
03:00Thankfully has gotten away with that
03:02So how did the rest of the new kids do Isaac Hatcher had the bragging rights putting his racing bull?
03:08Into the top 10 Kimi Antonelli on his Mercedes debut finished p14 and the unfortunate Behrman was last after his early
03:16Exit Jack Doohan finished p13 shifted some gravel at turn 7 one of several drivers to do so
03:23Which caused a brief red flag at one point to allow the stray stones to be cleared
03:28Alpine teammate Pierre Gasly now a veteran of more than 150 Grand Prix starts had a moment at turn 11
03:35Rainy f2 champion Gabriel Bortoletto seems to have his work cut out in the kick salver
03:40The team finished rock-bottom last term and didn't seem to be making any inroads this time out
03:44Although Bortoletto did beat teammate Nico Hülkenberg in the session p15 for the Brazilian three places better than the German
03:53Mercedes George Russell found the barriers in the dying seconds ending the session slightly early with the leaderboard looking like this
04:00Norris p1 ahead of signs Leclerc, Piastri, Verstappen, Albon, Russell, Fernando Alonso, Hajar and Lance Stroll
04:08P11 for Yuki Tsunoda then came Hamilton, Doohan, Antonelli, Bortoletto, Lawson, Gasly, Hülkenberg, Esteban Ocon and Oli Behrman