2025 Australian Grand Prix
| 2025 Australian Grand Prix | ||||
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Race 1 of 24 in the 2025 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit | ||||
| Race details | ||||
| Date | 16 March 2025 | |||
| Official name | Formula 1 Louis Vuitton Australian Grand Prix 2025 | |||
| Location | Albert Park Circuit, Melbourne, Australia | |||
| Course | Temporary street circuit | |||
| Course length | 5.278 km (3.280 miles) | |||
| Distance | 57 laps, 300.846 km (186.937 miles) | |||
| Scheduled distance | 58 laps, 306.124 km (190.217 miles) | |||
| Weather | Light rain | |||
| Attendance | 465,498 | |||
| Pole position | ||||
| Driver | McLaren-Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:15.096 | |||
| Fastest lap | ||||
| Driver | Lando Norris | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:22.167 on lap 43 | |||
| Podium | ||||
| First | McLaren-Mercedes | |||
| Second | Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT | |||
| Third | Mercedes | |||
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Lap leaders | ||||
The 2025 Australian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Louis Vuitton Australian Grand Prix 2025) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 16 March 2025 at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria. It was the first round of the 2025 Formula One World Championship.
Lando Norris in the McLaren won the race from pole position, ahead of Max Verstappen in the Red Bull and George Russell in the Mercedes. Norris' victory marked McLaren's first at Melbourne since Jenson Button's victory in 2012. Debutants Isack Hadjar of Racing Bulls and Gabriel Bortoleto of Sauber both retired due to accidents, the former on the formation lap, and Andrea Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes finished fourth.