As much as the teams that are measured in the Formula 1 World Cup tried to play the dismissal as much as they could during the winter, the first timed of the year confirmed practically all the omens of those who took a slightly detailed look at the three pre -season rehearsals days. McLaren is ahead of the rest and starts in Melbourne, a traditional starting point of the championship, the papaya cars sealed the first line of the grill, with Norris Land pole position, Escorted by Oscar Piastri, his workshop neighbor. The two corridors played it in their last fast return attempt after piping her in the first, in which one (Norris) exceeded the regulatory track limits, and the other (Piestri) went a bit long in a braking.
If the superiority of the woking manufacturer’s cars was seen to come, there were also indications of the skirmishes that should occur behind it. The chronometry of the Australia Grand Prix ratified that feeling, by placing six different cars in the first seven boxes. The second line will be led by Max Verstappen (third), which starts the year again at a level significantly above that offered by the Red Bull that leads. Proof of this is Liam Lawson’s trigger, his new partner, who could not even get into the second tie (Q2) and will leave on the 19th.
Next to the world’s tetracampeon will come out George Russell (Mercedes), while Yuki Tsunoda (Racing Bulls) and Alex Albon (Williams) will form in the third, fifth and sixth respectively, in one more sample of the rebellion of the modest that is imposed. Especially relevant is Williams’s high, something that was also intuited, although probably not until the level exhibited at Albert Park, where Carlos Sainz will begin the tenth in his first race, wrapped in the monkey of Grove’s team.
; Not so much from Lewis Hamilton (eighth), which needs time to adapt to the Scuderia after an eternity (12 years) in Mercedes, but of Charles Leclerc (seventh), which remained in nobody’s land. Much less striking was the 12th place that Fernando Alonso will occupy, which could not be classified for the third screen of the timed and even surrendered above the calculated if we take into account what was seen in winter.
“He has not been bad to start at all. The car works incredible. The car is very fast, and when you fit everything, it is a joy. The difficult thing is, to square everything, ”Norris agreed, after celebrating the tenth pole of his career. Even more difficult, the first test is anticipated if we attend to weather forecasts, which predict rain for when red traffic lights go out (5:00 hours, Dazn).
