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reviewing today the first qualifying session of 2025 at the Australian Grand Prix, a qualifying session where Lando Norris has pole position in what was in the end, a very dominant one-two for McLaren, Oscar Piastri, joining him

on the front row. Sam, before we hit record, we both used the word scrappy to define this qualifying session and not in a

horrible way, in an exciting, that's what qualifying should be way.

That's what I want qualifying to be. I want to see cars at full peltz, you know, full anger,

falling off the racetrack, dipping wheels into gravel, seeing bits of grass fly through

the air. I mean, it's been a while, right? We've been, we've been dry of Formula One content

for a long time. So it's always going to feel good when the first lapsing anger actually

happened. But God, that felt good to watch those cars go around there. And it felt like everyone

wanting it. It felt like they were hungry from top to bottom.

It was so close across the entire grid.

I mean, obviously you said we had that dominant pole from McLaren in the end.

But the gaps between first all the way down to last, even that was minute in its details.

So sensational qualifying to kickstart the year, we're coming straight in raw from the qualifying itself.

We've got about 20 minute break and we're going into this one very excited.

Indeed.

Major back to school vibes with this session and a lot to get into.

I was writing down my notes of what to talk about during this session, and it seems like a fairly

long list. So let's crack on with it. We'll talk obviously about Antonelli and Lawson failing to

make it out of Q1. We've got the likes of Sonoda and Albin getting up into the top six, Ferrari

just seventh and eighth, but we'll kick off at the front with Norris

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