Formula 1: Who were the best in the classification of the Australian GP and how did Jack Doohan, Franco Colapinto’s partner

After months of waiting, the engines finally started and began at the first weekend of the 2025 season of Formula 1. After the practices of Friday, this Saturday – at dawn – the pilots faced their first competitive challenge with the classification of the Australian GP. The McLaren team resumed at the same point where he left last year and He dominated the qualifying round with a 1 and 2 distributed between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.

For its part, Max Verstappen – in force world champion – began the year 3rd, less than half a second from Norris. For its part, the team Alpine He had a bittersweet start: Pierre Gasly was at 9th place while Australian Jack Doohan – Franco Colapinto partner and rival For the second place in the French team – He had a difficult start and classified in the 14th position, almost a second of his coequiper.

Formula 1: Results of the Australian GP classification

For the first time in the season, the cars left the Paddock to go to the track for the classification of the Australian GP that will run on Sunday, from 1:00 am (Argentine time).

After the three qualifying rounds, the grid was confirmed and, in its first positions, marks a continuity with the 2024 season. Norris stayed with the “Pole position ” while your partner, the place PIASTRIhe stayed with second place, imposing the domain of McLaren That, last year, champion of the Construction Championship was consecrated.

In Third place and in fight against the hegemony of the orange car could not appear other than Marx Verstappen. The Dutchman had a good Saturday and stayed with the third position for the start of the race.

Other outstanding yields were those of the Japanese Yuki Tsunoda (5th), Who runs for the team Visa Cash Racing Bulls, and the former collapse of Colapinto, Alexander Albon, Who aboard his Williams closed a great day and classified in sixth place.

He Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto He had a more than acceptable debut in the highest category of motor racing. In his first classification he was able to get into the Q2 above a Kick -Sauber – perhaps the car with the worst performance in last season – to ensure the 15th position.

How was the output grill for the Australian GP

1. Lando Norris
2. Oscar Piastri
3. Max Verstappen
4. George Russell
5. Yuki Tsunoda
6. Alexander Albon
7. Charles Leclerc
8. Lewis Hamilton
9. Pierre Gasly
10. Carlos Sainz
11. Isack hadjar
12. Fernando Alonso
13. Lance Stroll
14. Jack Doohan
15. Gabriel Bortoleto
16. Andrea Kimi Antonelli
17. Nico Hulkenberg
18. Liam Lawson
19. Esteban Ocon
20. Oliver Bearman

Franco Colapinto: Present in a complicated debut for Jack Doohan

One of the attractions of the qualifying day on Thursday was also the performance of the Alpine team. The French team ended with very good feelings last season and seeks to revalidate what was done during 2025 to dominate the middle zone of the table.

In this scenario, Argentina’s eyes were put on the performance of the Australian Jack Doohan who has a Contract insured by the first 5 races of the year and then it could be replaced by collapint. The Argentine for the moment is a team reservation pilot and Wait for your opportunity.

Australia is the first calendar race for what to measure Doohan’s performance with the rest of the equipment isfor the moment, premature. However, the weekend left a clear parameter about the current Australian performance.

Is that the French Gasly, his current partner, managed to qualify for Q3 and sign a return of 1: 15,980, time that earned him the 9th position.

In this sense, Doohan did not have a bad debut But neither is a good performance and adds pressure for Sunday’s race. The Australian managed to classify the Q2 but there it was one of the slowest cars on the grill and was located in the 14th position.

In a first comparison between the classifying times of both pilots, Doohan signed a 1: 16,863 turn. almost a second behind his coequiper. This difference is not abysmal, but if it puts it away from the performance of French in the first race of the year. The parallelism of both yields is valuable Because both pilots lead “the same car” And, therefore, the differences are generally by Net performance of the pilot and not for the car he occupies.

Thus, Doohan had a complicated debut and adds pressure for Sunday’s career. For its part, Colapinto is still waiting to get its opportunity at the head of the French car, a chance that could arrive in race 6 of the year, in the Miami GP.