McLaren locks out the front row, Max Verstappen ready to attack, while Ferrari looks for redemption from the fourth row. Follow the LIVE coverage of the F1 Australian GP, the opening round of the 2025 season: the LIVE race broadcast will start at 4:45 AM Central European Standard Time in the video below.
2025 Australian GP: F1 starting grid, positions, and penalties
The real surprise of Melbourne qualifying is Ferrari. The Scuderia shocks everyone—in a bad way—by securing a disappointing fourth-row start in the first Q3 of the season. In Melbourne, the flashes of brilliance are not red but papaya: Norris and Piastri completely dominate the front row, leaving Max Verstappen almost four-tenths behind. The Dutchman will start behind Lando Norris, alongside George Russell’s Mercedes, which secured fourth in Australian Q3.
To find the red cars of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, you have to look even further down, past another row occupied by Tsunoda and Albon. The two Maranello drivers failed to put together a clean qualifying session, with limited lap time improvements—resulting in a disaster.
In their first battle for pole with Mercedes and Red Bull, Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Liam Lawson encountered too many setbacks—both young drivers were forced to bow out at the end of Q1.
There are currently no grid penalties.
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