2025 Australian Grand Prix - Melbourne, March 14 - 16

[erudite450]

„Kick“s out Antonelli…
Nice to see somebody else is watching, very quiet today. I miss the live chat link on the start page.

Awfully quiet. Very unusual for the first qualy session of the season.

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Ferrari and Williams have one new set for Q3, Verstappen, Russell and McLaren two.

and yeah, quiet, but the forum is also very slow or sometimes doesn't load at all, which probably doesn't help.

[FormulaOnceMore]

Not the day of the newbies in nearly every team. But very promising session for a exciting season!

[Luscion]

Ferrari and Williams have one new set for Q3, Verstappen, Russell and McLaren two.

and yeah, quiet, but the forum is also very slow or sometimes doesn't load at all, which probably doesn't help.

Yea forum has been a nightmare to load sometimes for the past week

[erudite450]

In the end McLaren had the predicted 0.4 sec gap.

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[Kiril Varbanov]

Hey, what is the right place to access all drivers telemetry and lap time data at F1.com post-race?

[chrisc90]

Whatever the McLaren were doing in Sector 3 was amazing. Sector 1 and 2 was marginally Max’s but a couple little errors added up to move a couple tenths in the last 3 corners for Max.

Not an amazing quali showdown, and got to give credit to Yuki and Albon making up 5th and 6th.

^^ f1-tempo will give you the telemetry.

[Bill_Kar]

- Macca confirms the larger than 3 tenths gap predicted from most. Does anybody remember Gary Anderson using some dubious methods to figure McLaren were 6th teams in one-lap pace?

- Verstappen overall should be happy, given that Red Bull was predicted to be third or fourth. But yeah that gap must have him worrying nonetheless. I predict a close fight with Russell (unless it does rain, so I can't predict much).

- I get that Ferrari gambled a lot on a wet setup, but having loads of downforce should give you a better tyre performance and longevity, no? So not only they were much slower than yesterday in general, but they lost tons of times in the tight S3, where theoretically they should be better?

- Really great stuff from Tsunoda and Williams

- Of course I expected Lawson (and Antonelli) being on the back foot, but Lawson's Q1 was the definition of a mess.

[CHT]

Yuki must be smiling every time he walks pass RBR garage this weekend.
Hadja is really exciting driver to watch, hope he has a good and clean race tomorrow.

Terrible start for Lawson this weekend, not its hard to tell what the true gap between him and Max.

Bearman confidence is shattered already. He needs to keep calm have finish the race tomorrow.

LH is still the same as where he left last year,

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Are those Q3 best sector times?

[Tvetovnato]

Will be an easy Max win tomorrow if it rains. Will be more interesting if we get mixed conditions. The other question mark is how Ferrari will fare in the race, as they likely didn’t all they could from the car today.

[bluechris]

I hope Norris will have better starts this year because tomorrow he has Piastri and Max behind

[venkyhere]

I expect NOR and PIA to fight in the opening lap, and either a coming together / overtake in T1 or T9-10. This is the only hope for VER or RUS or anyone else to even have the possibility for a non-McLaren win. In normal course, wet or dry, this is a cakewalk for McLaren P1-P2.

[DGP123]

this is a cakewalk for McLaren P1-P2.

Tomorrow an unknown, and I think any of the top 4 could win. Going forward though, that would be my worry for the season, in regards to McLaren’s advantage. I don’t particularly get that excited about a Norris v Piastri title fight, just doesn’t do it for me. Wasn’t the most exciting Q, but early days.