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L30 McLaren inform Piastri to “maintain place.”
L29 Previous half-distance and it’s getting tasty on the entrance. Piastri is now inside DRS vary of his race-leading workforce mate.
Russell seems to be choosing up the tempo relative to Verstappen now, beginning to take a bit extra out of the Pink Bull. Nevertheless the rain is easing, and it was the onset of rain which the Pink Bull appeared to dislike.
L26 Piastri has Norris’s lead all the way down to 1.4 seconds now. Verstappen 12.6s behind, Russell 8.1s off him.
L25 Hamilton starting to use strain to Albon for seventh place.
Hamilton: “Misplaced gear sync.”
L22 Piastri is advised the rain will cease in two laps. He took half a second out of Norris the final time round. Verstappen is dropping again at round a second per lap, Russell barely gaining on him.
Hamilton, Alonso, Tsunoda and Albon have all been cleared by the stewards after they have been investigated for probably failing to go away a 10-car-length hole in the course of the Security Automotive interval.
L20 Piastri took six tenths of a second out of Norris within the first sector alone on this lap. The hole between them is now 2.6 seconds.
A little bit of motion at flip 11. Antonelli will get twelfth again from Hulkenberg and Lawson takes Ocon for fifteenth.
L19. One-third distance. Russell says the rain is “intensifying.” He’s now 9 seconds behind Verstappen, who has dropped 5 seconds behind Piastri.
Hamilton has additionally been famous for a possible Security Automotive infringement.
Verstappen: “My tyres are fucked.”
Verstappen runs vast at flip 11, Piastri takes second place off him.
L17 Drivers are reporting the rain has returned.
Antonelli had handed Hulkenberg however he spins at flip 4 and loses the place once more.
L16 Norris, Verstappen and Piastri are operating nose-to-tail. Russell is now 10 seconds behind in fourth, Leclerc three seconds off him.
McLaren advise Norris the chance of rain is rising.
L13 Hamilton: “Let me know the place I’m sluggish. Struggling for drive-ability.”
L12 Verstappen will get his want – race management has enabled DRS.
L11 Norris beginning to cool his tyres off-line on the straight. Verstappen not feeling the necessity to. Verstappen tells his race engineer: “They will permit DRS.” He needs to assault.
L10 Verstappen wanting extra comfy now and shutting in on Norris.
Alonso and Tsunoda are underneath investigation for infringements in the course of the Security Automotive interval – leaving greater than 10 automobile lengths to the automobile in entrance.
Piastri appears to be like a extra comfy than Verstappen by means of the high-speed flip 9 and 10, he features on the Pink Bull there, then drops again by the tip of the lap.
L8 The race restarts. Norris leads Verstappen and Piastri.
L7 The Security Automotive stays out for an additional lap.
L6 Three drivers behind the sphere have fitted recent intermediate tyres: Each Haas drivers and Liam Lawson. They’ve acquired little to lose by doing that and offers them a bit extra buy and warmth for the restart. The very fact they’re doing that underlines how little grip there’s. They may have been higher off ready another lap, nonetheless, because the Security Automotive stays out for an additional lap.
Lewis Hamilton remains to be getting used to life together with his new race engineer at Ferrari, Ricardo Adami, who was Sainz’s engineer final 12 months. “Simply don’t repeat every part,” he says. “Understood,” replies Adami.
Fernando Alonso defined yesterday why racing at Melbourne within the rain is troublesome. “I believe it will likely be a problem for everyone,” he mentioned. “Melbourne just isn’t actually a circuit that, in moist circumstances, is enjoyable, as a result of the straights aren’t straight. They’re form of a nook, all the time, and visibility will likely be a problem.”
The drivers are following the Security Automotive by means of the pit lane to keep away from the scene of Sainz’s crash.
Lap two of the season and we’re already all the way down to 17 automobiles.
Carlos Sainz Jnr can be out! Final 12 months’s winner is within the barrier on the remaining nook. The FW47 swapped ends on him on the way in which in.
L1 Jack Doohan has crashed! He’s broken his Alpine at flip six. The Security Automotive is out.
The 2025 Australian Grand Prix is go! Max Verstappen instantly passes Oscar Piastri for second place.
Aston Martin have repaired some injury to Lance Stroll’s rear wing underneath FIA supervision.
Due to the sooner formation lap, the race distance has now been shortened by one lap to 57 laps. The automobiles head off on their second formation lap now.
Joseph to Norris: “Rain anticipated 15:25.” That’s 10 minutes after the subsequent formation lap is because of start.
Joseph to Norris: “Slight threat of rain after the race begin.”
A brand new formation lap will happen at 3:15pm native time – 10 minutes from now. The monitor will probably dry out rather a lot between from time to time.
Russell: “Is there any rain on the radar?” Dudley: “Unfavourable.”
The beginning has been aborted. Norris made a multitude of this process in Brazil final 12 months and the principles have modified since then.
The formation lap begins and Isack Hadjar has crashed! He’s spun right into a barrier on the exit of flip two. The Racing Bulls has a damaged rear wing.
Lambiase to Verstappen: “That mild bathe has now fully dissipated.”
All 20 drivers will begin the race on the intermediate tyres.
Drivers seem like switching to intermediates on the grid, although the tyre covers are nonetheless on.
Though the monitor floor could be very moist with standing water in locations a standing begin doesn’t look inconceivable. The grid awaits race management’s determination. There’s solely a 40% probability of additional rain after the beginning, so we might nicely see the monitor dry out from right here on.
Pink Bull have modified Liam Lawson’s rear wing specification so he must be a part of Bearman in beginning the race from the pit lane.
Haas have made adjustments to Oliver Bearman’s suspension set-up and can due to this fact have to begin from the pit lane. His workforce mate Esteban Ocon simply went off at flip 11 however didn’t hit something and has acquired going once more.
The drivers are conducting their reconnaissance laps at a really moist Albert Park monitor. Most of them are on full wets, however Lewis Hamilton has headed out intermediates.
We’re one hour away from the beginning of the 2025 Australian Grand Prix.
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