Lando Norris decides the first race of the new Formula 1 season in Australia and withstands the pressure from world champion Max Verstappen. The international press voices for the fifth GP victory of the McLaren driver:
Great Britain
“Daily Mail”: “Lando Norris briefly survived a late rain shower and a worrying ride into the gravel bed and won the wet and crazy Grand Prix of Australia for hair width.”
“Independent”: “Norris survived a rain shower and a late attack by Max Verstappen to open his season with a win in a wild, crazy and exciting races in which six cars departed from accidents.”
“Sun”: “Land Down Under – Lando Norris defeats Max Verstappen in an epic Australia GP with six drivers who go Ko and a Hamilton who scolds his racing engineer.”
Australia
“The Australian”: “Piatri takes blame while the Australian Formula 1 curse Norris gives the victory. The weather in Melbourne has thwarted the Grand Prix of Australia, but Oscar Piatri says that nobody besides him is to blame that his day ended in a disaster-in contrast to that of his teammate Lando Norris.”
“Sydney Morning Herald”: “Grand Prix of Australia: Piatri breaks the heart, McLaren triumphs in wet and wild melbourne.”
Switzerland
“Tages-Anzeiger”: “The start of the new season is wild. The rain ensures turbulent scenes, big winners-and many losers.”
“Look”: “The start of the season in Australia sinks into chaos. (…) What a wild GP at the start of the season. For a long time it looks like a safe McLaren double victory. But then after 33 laps the madness breaks.”
Austria
“Kleine Zeitung”: “The long wait for Formula 1’s start of the season extended on a wet Albert Park Circuit in the Australian Melbourne in the first Grand Prix of the year.
“Salzburger Nachrichten”: “The fact that the start of the 75th anniversary year in Formula 1 was so exciting and crazy was mainly due to the weather conditions.”
France
“L’équipe”: “He did not collapse. Whether at the start, the three new starts after Safety car phases or after the rains: Lando Norris was able to free himself from all traps and won the 2025 Formula 1 season in Melbourne on Sunday.”
“Le Sud-Ouest”: “Norris against Verstappen, the game is already in progress? On the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne, the brit that started from the pole position could not be surprised, neither of the pressure nor of the rain, despite a great terror, and certainly not by ‘Mad Max’, his Dutch rival for the World Cup crown last year.”
Italy
“Gazzetta Dello Sport”: “Lewis Hamilton’s first race in Ferrari was nervous, even before the tenth place, which came about in the last round by overtaking Oscar Piatri – certainly far from the goals of all and the months of dreamy expectations of fans who had been waiting for this day. The fact that the sevenfold world champion in the past few days Debut on the route experienced as hoped for, showed a certain impatience that could not be ignored even on the team radio during the race. “
“La Repubblica”: “Hamilton and Teamfunk controversy with the box: ‘You told me that it would rain a bit …’ The British driver was annoyed by Ferrari’s strategy at the time of rain.”
“Tuttosport”: “Disaster for Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton had a bad debut. The seven -time champion became tenth and annoyed himself about the constant radio sayings of his team on the box while Charles Leclerc was eighth.”
Spain
“Mundo Deportivo”: “It was a long wait, but that was worth it. The Formula 1 is back with style. The Formula 1 World Cup 2025 began with a GP of Australia, which was the purest chaos, a race that was shaped by constant rain, pure endurance, enormous difficulties for everyone and maximum excitement, which was even worthy of the best film, and which was worthy of the best film, and that had his big winner in Lando Norris. ”
“Sport”: “After a long wait and for a time unchristian for fans in Europe, Formula 1 opened its new season with a spectacle of the highest intensity and action in Albert Park, the venue for the Grand Prix of Australia. Norris’ victory is not a surprise.”
“Marca”: “Norris survives everything and Max becomes second.”