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If he is to make a tilt at this season’s Formula One world championship, Lando Norris can consider that he made the case as leading contender definitively at the very opening meeting of 2025. In weathering the storm for his victory at the Australian Grand Prix Norris demonstrated control, precision and an iron will under pressure. There is an awful long way to go but at the death on a treacherous wet track and harried by a charging Max Verstappen, Norris held his nerve like a champion.
In the build up to the race, it was weather for the ducks on Albert Park lake as waves of rain sashayed across the circuit in a cycle that lasted very much into the opening and the latter stages and duly played a significant part in its outcome.
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