How Australian GP proved McLaren's progress on critical strategy calls
OPINION: McLaren would be forgiven for wishing the rain that made the Melbourne race so good never fell. But, now armed with clearly Formula 1 2025’s best car, it still took the season-opening win and in circumstances where it erred last year. Here’s how
Sochi 2021, Montreal and Silverstone 2024 – all three races hung above McLaren, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri during the 2025 Australian Grand Prix.
And, as how clouds heralding the unpredictable swings of wet racing are unwelcome for a team with clearly the best Formula 1 car in the dry, as the MCL39 now very clearly is, the memory spectres of those events were not what team and drivers wanted hovering above them last Sunday.
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