Since when did McLaren win the first race of the Formula 1 season?

Lando Norris He celebrated in him Australian Grand Prix and won his fifth victory in Formula 1with the particularity that it was the first race of the season, one that McLaren I didn’t dominate a long time.

The British pilot, who in 2024 won in Miami, Netherlands, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, now did it at the Albert Park in Melbourne and leads the championship of the Queen of Automobilism category for the first time in his career.

But also McLaren won at the opening of the season, something that did not get Since March 18, 2012, when Jenson Button, in his third and last year as Lewis Hamilton’s partner, celebrated precisely in Australia.

Since then, the aforementioned Button and Norris, Sergio Pérez, Kevin Magnussen, Fernando Alonso, Stoffel Vandoorne, Carlos Sainz, Daniel Ricciardo and Oscar Piestri, who ended up rescuing a ninth place in his house, had failed both Australia and Norris.

McLaren, current champion of the Construction Championship, a title that was not achieved since 1998 (Suma 9), now also leads among the pilots. The last to get it was Hamilton, during a date in 2012, the year in which Sebastian Vettel would end up celebrating (Hamilton was 4th and Button, 5thjust two points below the heptcampeon).

In addition, on that occasion, the escort was from Red Bull: Vettel. Today, Max Verstappen finished second.