Lando Norris won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix from the pole position. And it was hardly a boring path to victory.
Norris somehow regained the lead in the last 15 laps of the the race as a rain shower hit the track. The race started under wet conditions with the entirety of the field on the intermediate tire. A crash by Fernando Alonso allowed teams to change to dry tires under caution. And that’s when things got wacky.
Not long after the race resumed following Alonso’s crash, the rain hit again. Norris and his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri both went off the track — and Piastri got the worst of it. As Piastri got stuck in the grass, Norris hit the pits for a set of intermediate tires.
Max Verstappen went from third to first as he stayed out on dry tires, but he was…
