Pandemonium Down Under.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, AGP.

    Every so often Formula One produces a thoroughly enthralling Grand Prix, and the 2025 iteration of the Australian Grand Prix (AGP) was nothing short of chaotic bedlam. It was one of those occasions where you just didn't know where to look or what was going to happen next. Certainly renders predictions based on pre-season form redundant. Congratulations to Lando Norris and McLaren starting their championship challenge off in style. Norris withstood immense pressure from not only his team mate Oscar Piastri and Red Bull's Max Verstappen, but also the elements in the form of Melbourne's unpredictable weather.
    With the performance window converging between the teams as we commence the last season of the current regulations, could 2025 be the season where keeping the car on track result in the accumulation of points? Nico Hulkenberg in a Sauber finishing P7, or both Williams' qualifying in the top 10, with Alex Albon finishing P5 for example. It was a testing time for all the full time rookies at Albert Park. Isack Hadjar, Jack Doohan, Liam Lawson, Ollie Bearman, Gabriel Bortoletto all had challenging weekends. Even the most experienced on the grid, two time champ Fernando Alonso crashed out in the race. Mercedes rookie however, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, despite sustaining floor damage in qualifying to line up P16, demonstrated the potential the team knew he possessed by finishing an impressive P4 at the chequered flag. A future star perhaps?
    What was obvious to us, was whether it was the excruciatingly oppressive heat of qualifying or the cold wet conditions of the GP, McLaren have a well balanced car in all conditions that clearly looks a cut above the other teams at this early stage of the season. Now the Chinese GP is on this weekend and we've only just caught our breath from the AGP! 

   
    It is with great sadness that we've just learned of the passing of former Jordan F1 Team owner, media pundit and business entrepreneur, Eddie Jordan. Fiercely determined, driven and passionate about motorsport who also loved a good party. Even if you didn't know him, you felt like you did, such was his charisma. His Jordan team after transforming through various guises, lives on today as the Aston Martin F1 Team. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time.
​    Vale EJ.  
               



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