F1 Australian Grand Prix 2025: Beginning grid for season-opening race

The primary race of the 2025 Components 1 season is just some hours away.

How will the drivers take to the grid?

McLaren locked out the entrance row for the Australian Grand Prix, with Lando Norris capturing pole place simply forward of teammate — and hometown hero — Oscar Piastri. This provides Norris an opportunity to win his second race when ranging from pole place, and his second in a row, as he ended the 2024 season with a win on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ranging from P1.

Nonetheless, there are some fast drivers that can be behind the McLaren duo when the lights exit. 2024 F1 Drivers’ Champion Max Verstappen begins third, with George Russell alongside him in P4. The third row affords a pair of surprises, as Yuki Tsunoda will begin fifth, and Alex Albon sixth.

It’s an all-red fourth row, as Charles Leclerc begins seventh alongside new teammate Lewis Hamilton, who certified eighth.

Pierre Gasly from Alpine begins ninth whereas Carlos Sainz Jr. from Williams rounds out the highest ten, beginning in tenth.

In the back of the sphere Oliver Bearman — who didn’t set a time after a gearbox failure in Q1 — will begin from pit lane after Haas made a change to the suspension on his automobile below parc ferme circumstances.

Right here is the total beginning grid for the 2025 Australian Grand Prix.