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Norris takes Melbourne pole with Hamilton eighth
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Norris takes Melbourne pole with Hamilton eighth

By Miles Cooper March 15, 2025
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Norris takes Melbourne pole with Hamilton eighth

Australian Grand Prix

Venue: Albert Park, Melbourne Date: Sunday, 16 March Race begin: 04:00 GMT

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Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri made it a McLaren one-two in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix, whereas Lewis Hamilton took eighth on his Ferrari debut.

Norris and Piastri made life tough for themselves with errors on their first laps within the ultimate a part of qualifying, however each produced sturdy laps on their ultimate runs.

Briton Norris beat Australian Piastri by 0.084 seconds as each knocked early pace-setter Max Verstappen’s Crimson Bull down to 3rd in Melbourne.

Verstappen improved on his ultimate run regardless of brushing the gravel within the quick chicane at Turns 9 and 10 and ended up 0.385secs off the tempo, however managed to remain forward of Mercedes’ George Russell in fourth.

Hamilton was 0.218secs slower than team-mate Charles Leclerc because the Ferraris took the fourth row behind the spectacular Racing Bull of Yuki Tsunoda and Williams of Alex Albon.

Alpine’s Pierre Gasly and Williams’ Carlos Sainz accomplished the highest 10.

‘Excellent begin’ for Norris

The ultimate Briton on the grid, Haas driver Oliver Bearman, will begin final after a tough weekend.

His gearbox failed on his first lap out of the pits in qualifying, after a crash in second observe and a spin into the gravel within the ultimate session value him monitor time at first of his first full season.

Of the six rookies on the grid, probably the most spectacular efficiency got here from Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto, who out-qualified his skilled Sauber team-mate Nico Hulkenberg with fifteenth place, the German two spots additional again.

Norris was happy by his efficiency however his essential concern was the race, for which rain is predicted.

He mentioned: “It is the proper method to begin the yr. Everybody at McLaren has achieved a tremendous job to start out with a one-two nevertheless it’s simply qualifying, let’s have a look at tomorrow, it should be a tough race however this can be a good method to begin.

“The automobile is extraordinarily fast and whenever you put it collectively it is unbelievable nevertheless it’s tough to place collectively.

“Significantly after the primary lap, once I went off and misplaced my lap, you are in a tough place – that you must threat it however not go too far as a result of you possibly can’t make a mistake. It is a tough steadiness. We all know how fast Max and Crimson Bull are within the rain.”

Verstappen mentioned he didn’t imagine he may have made the distinction to beat the McLarens even with an ideal lap.

“Yesterday was fairly powerful so to be in P3, I take that,” he mentioned. “The qualifying laps had been very thrilling, a variety of good grip round right here and a few quick corners in order that’s all the time very enjoyable in an F1 automobile.

“Ultimately the hole was fairly large to them so it would not have made a distinction by way of place. Moist or dry, I do not thoughts, however within the moist a variety of loopy issues can occur.”

Bearman rued his errors in observe as he digested his weekend to this point.

“I made my life very tough by performing badly, less than customary, within the observe periods and the problem with the gearbox just about sums up the weekend,” he mentioned.

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