McLaren's Lando Norris began the team's title defense with a victory in a chaotic race in Melbourne, but Max Verstappen and others remain in the mix going forward.

Intermittent rain caused havoc on the track before and during the 2025 F1 Australian Grand Prix. The post F1 Australian Grand Prix 2025 results: Norris wins, rookies spin out in the rain appeared first on The Manual.

It's been six years since the F1 season started in Melbourne, and the 2025 Australian Grand Prix showed what the racing series was missing.

F1 returns with its second race of the 2025 season, the Chinese Grand Prix, this Sunday. Lando Norris and team McLaren won the F1 season-opener at the Australian Grand Prix last week in Melbourne, and he'll face competitors like last year's Chinese Grand Prix winner Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton,

From racing in the dry to the first sprint weekend of the season - this is all you need to know ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix

However, in a twist of scheduling fate his first F1 Grand Prix will need to wait a little longer, as the Chinese Grand Prix is the first F1 Sprint race of the season. Hadjar believes that is a good thing, given that he lacks race experience in F1.