Category: recap༄.°

Australia Grand Prix

As expected from pre-season testing, qualifying ended with a Mercedes front row lock out, with George Russell on pole position and Andrea Kimi Antonelli behind him. But what surprised most people was Isack Hadjar taking 3rd position, especially when it was expected for Ferrari to be the team to closely follow Mercedes this year.

There is a new rookie on the grid and it is no other than Arvid Lindblad, who drove a stellar weekend, qualifying 9th and finishing the race in 9th. This is an amazing debut from Arvid, showing fans that he is capable of holding his weight in this sport at just 18 Years-Old.

The Ferrari race start was highly anticipated and did not disappoint as in the race start, Charles Leclerc was able to take the race lead while Lewis climbed from 7th to to 4th. Although the position was later taken back by Russell and Antonelli, the Ferrari is still able to have on track battles with the Mercedes, which makes it an amazing race watch.

George won the race and was closely followed by Kimi, Leclerc taking third place.

Now onto what people believed to be the worst of the Australia weekend.

It wasn’t the best weekend for both Mclaren and Red Bull as Max Verstappen crashed in Q1 and was out of qualifying and Isack Hadjar had power unit issues during the start of the race. The Mclaren seem to be off the pace this year, after winning 2 constructors and Lando winning the Drivers championship. The Mclaren drivers qualified 5th and 6th respectfully, with Oscar Piastri crashing on the outlap of the race and Norris finishing p5.

It also was not a good race for Aston Martin, Cadillac and Audi as they all had either one or both drivers DNF.

China Grand Prix

I’m going to start this off by saying, this was probably the most interesting race I’ve watched in a while.

The sprint started and ended with Russell on the front, but what was really interesting was Antonelli having a terrible race start, going from P2 to to P12, and this costed him the race as he finished 5th.

The element that I enjoyed the most was the battle for first with Russell and Hamilton, as they showed nice, clean racing under the new regulations. However, Leclerc and Hamilton also had a battle for 2nd, which didn’t leave the Monegasque too happy as he believed it caused him to lose the battle for First. The Sprint ended with Russell on top, Leclerc second and Hamilton third.

For the Grand Prix, Hamilton takes the lead in the opening lap, and this ensues a battle for second between Hamilton and Russell after Antonelli reclaimed it. Also, for the Franco Colapinto fans (me), he scored his first points this weekend which was very due and welcomed by everyone.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli has become the youngest race winner and the first Italian driver winner in 20 years. Lewis Hamilton achieves his first podium with Ferrari and hopefully not the last.

With the downsides of this weekend, a double Mclaren DNS. This is Piastri’s second weekend not being able to drive his car. Verstappen had to retire the car on lap 45 of 56. Alongside the Mclarens and Verstappen, 4 other drivers did not finish or start the race, which might show the unreliabilities of the car early into the season.

The End.✦ ݁˖

With how eventful the season has already been, I don’t doubt that this will be one of the most action packed and interesting seasons that we have had in a while. The people are excited to see a change alongside the new regulations, and if that means having a Mercedes championship, then this will be the season to watch.

P.S, Both the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grand Prix won’t be taking place in April, so see you soon!