Vice world champion Lando Norris has won the race into the new Formula 1 season in Melbourne’s rain and slipchaos of Melbourne. The Briton of McLaren referred to second place in a highly entertaining and eventful Grand Prize of Australia. “What a great start to the year”, the 25-year-old still sparked from his car to the box. Drashes in the race under the hardest conditions on Albert Park Circuit George Russell in Mercedes. With the first home win of an Australian, however, it became nothing again: Norris’ team -mate Oscar Piatri was first a stable order and then a separate slip. He was disappointed at the end of ninth. Hamilton, Hülkenberg Starkda’s first race of the new season was shaped by crashs and many failures. The safety car was in constant use. Disappointing and with bounds, the first major test for record world champion Lewis Hamilton in Ferrari ended: The 40-year-old seven-time champion was only tenth in the final phase after a tough maneuver by team-mate Charles Leclerc. In the points, so this season would not promise enough excitement: the most difficult conditions prevailed at the first race. The day before, Norris raced to the pole position in front of Piatri and Verstappen at temperatures around 33 degrees with a slightly covered sky. Then rain on the race day, wind and just 15 degrees. In short: Verstappen weather, but the defending champion also had to be patient-because of all things from Red Bull’s second team crashed into the gang in the formation round. In curve two, Isack Hadjar lost control of his racing Bull at a manageable speed. The end for the 20 -year -old Frenchman – one of six young drivers who started their first season as a regular pilot. On the way to his team, Hadjar, deeply saddened, was also comforted by Hamilton’s father Anthony. Three of the Crashs, the remaining 19 drivers, made their way to the second attempt to start. After all, he succeeded, but shortly after Verstappen had already passed Piatri, the next crashed: Jack Doohan, 22 years old, new regular driver from Alpine. But also a veteran caught it: Carlos Sainz even hit the route wall with his Williams behind the Safety Car. Failure number three before the third round. McLaren-Pilot Lando Norris (right) and the Red Bull Pilot Liam Lawson come out of the second curve. Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/AP/DPABERND MAYL LANDER, Safety-Car first initiated-25 years ago he celebrated his premiere on Albert Park Circuit. In the seventh of 57 laps, Mayländer steered his car back into the box. Norris defended his leadership. Then turn off, Piatri thanked and raced past the Dutch. The two McLaren immediately pulled away. On the stable order at McLarennoch, an Australian never won the home race – would it be that far this time? Norris had already snatched Piatri – born in Melbourne – the poles at the last moment. After the stable order towards the end of last season in favor of Norris, which was better placed at the time, both are allowed to drive against each other this season. As Piatri was very close, the announcement came from the command stand: Keep the position. It became very strange a bit later, Piatris gap was now almost three seconds. The announcement came: you can now drive against each other again. Rain also in the final phaseder next crash caused the next safety car phase: the 43-year-old two-time world champion Fernando Alonso with his Aston Martin. So quickly into the box for changing tires, Verstappen was the only one from the front group to choose the Mittely Slicks, all others for the hard. However, the Safety Car stayed outside for so long that the next rain forecast came in again. And it had tough: heavily spoken, Piatri slipped from the route and into the grass. The safety car had previously driven in, all pokered. In the ranks, there was horrified silence for a moment: her local hero was beaten. He came back in reverse gear, but without chance for victory or the podium. Norris quickly switched to merging tires, suddenly even Hamilton led. Rookie Gabriel Bortoleto in the clean and displacement of new teammates Liam Lawson made more of the Safety car phase. When the race was released again, even the sun came out. Verstappen came to Norris again, but it was no longer enough to overtake.
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