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F1 race & the Met Gala - Inside Lewis Hamilton's whirlwind 24 hours
Hannah Kennelly
Imagine reaching unfathomable speeds while racing in a F1 grand prix then co-chairing fashion's biggest night.
That's the reality for Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton who will race in today's Miami Grand Prix then hop on a jet and fly to New York for the 2025 Met Gala held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (On Tuesday, May 6 for Australians).
Hamilton is co-chairing the event alongside rapper A$AP Rocky (aka Mr Rihanna), music producer turned Louis Vuitton menswear designer Pharrell Williams, and Euphoria actor Colman Domingo.
The gala will precede the Met Costume Institute's exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style and marks Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's 30th anniversary as event chair.
In an Instagram post last year, Hamilton said he was deeply honoured to be one of the co-chairs.
'This theme speaks to me deeply,' he wrote. 'When I started my career I never imagined what I might be capable of beyond my sport. The pressure to conform holds so many people back. Growing up as the only Black kid on the track, so often that pressure got to me. Expressing myself creatively was and still is my freedom from that conformity.'
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Driver standings
By Hannah Kennelly
5.07am
What happened in qualifying?
By Hannah Kennelly
McLaren's pace has been the talk of the season so far but during qualifying Red Bull champion Max Verstappen proved it's still anyone's game.
The Dutchman – who recently welcomed his first child with partner Kelly Piquet – went fastest with a 26.204s lap, six six-hundredths clear of Norris who took too much kerb during his lap and had to settle for second.
Meanwhile, Mercedes rookie Kimi Antonelli sits in third, an impressive feat following his pole position success in Friday's sprint race qualifying session. Australian Oscar Piastri will start in fourth with George Russell in fifth.
It's been a mixed weekend for Piastri who finished second during the sprint race after a late safety car propelled Norris to victory. Piastri still leads the championship however there are only nine points between the two McLaren teammates.
'I feel like I did everything right so a bit disappointed to come in second,' Piastri said after the sprint.
'But that's that's how it goes sometimes. Unfortunately, racing's a pretty cruel business so, hopefully, that means I get the luck for this afternoon and tomorrow. But another great start and I'm happy with what I did.'
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News.com.au
2 hours ago
- News.com.au
F1 great Martin Brundle's belated praise for Oscar Piastri GP win
F1 commentator Martin Brundle has belatedly praised Oscar Piastri for his latest Grand Prix victory and made a call on the 2025 world title battle. Starting from second on the grid, Piastri won the Belgian Grand Prix ahead of McLaren teammate and title rival Lando Norris, with the Aussie extending his championship lead to 16 points. Fox Sports, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every practice, qualifying session and race in the 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship™ LIVE in 4K. New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1. Many fans were left fuming, however, as the Sky Sports broadcast once again focused predominantly on Englishman Norris, rather than his race-winning stable mate. With Norris making a series of crucial errors in the closing stages as he attempted to catch Piastri, Brundle instead highlighted his compatriot's 'brilliant charge' on the broadcast. Perhaps the criticism that rained down upon him was fresh on 66-year-old Brundle's mind when he penned a post-Spa opinion piece for the Sky Sports website. Brundle, who picked up nine podiums in his 12-year career in the premier category, ultimately had some lofty comparisons when assessing Piastri's drive in Belgium. 'It was a champion's drive from Oscar Piastri in the main race on Sunday at Spa,' he wrote. 'The kind of performance reminiscent of the likes of Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, and Max Verstappen in this modern era. 'A small error at Stavelot cost him pole position to teammate Lando Norris, who had impressively homed in on peak performance overnight. 'But then Piastri read and stalked his championship rival from the eventual rolling start, exited turn one La Source more cleanly, followed closely through Eau Rouge and Radillion, and kept momentum to sweep past into a lead he would not relinquish. 'This also gave him the all-important pit stop priority between the two.' Horrendous conditions delayed the start of the race on Sunday, with it finally getting underway behind a safety car. While Piastri jumped his teammate and grabbed the lead in the early stages, Norris was on the better compound tyre for a one-stop strategy. It left the Aussie with a huge fight on his hands to retain the lead, particularly in the closing stages. Brundle had high praise for the Victorian's effort, stating he 'made it look easy'. 'Because we waited so unnecessarily long to get underway, the race was much drier than expected, and this meant managing intermediate tyres through their compound destruction phase into a tread-less bald contact patch,' Brundle continued. 'The other McLaren side of the garage cleverly agreed with Norris to opt for the hard dry compound tyre, after Piastri's medium compounds were already fitted the previous lap, which meant Lando wouldn't have to pit again. 'Piastri then had to completely reset and coax his tyres for the remaining 70 per cent of the race, which he did with utter calmness and without error despite Norris coming back at him with increasing chunks each lap. 'Basically, he needed to deploy all the driving tools in the toolbox on the day and made it look easy. 'Lando was unlucky with having to go an extra lap on the intermediates because they were too close to do a double stack pit stop and then to compound that his stop was slow. 'As he said in the cooldown room post-race, 'I just thought bye-bye Oscar'.' Norris threw away any chance at victory due to those three costly mistakes as Piastri oozed class and kept his cool. As Norris began to close the gap to Piastri, he ran wide at turn 10 and lost more than a second before losing another half a second thanks to a big lockup. With only three laps to go and the margin down to three seconds, Norris once again locked up at turn one and saw the margin blow back out to 4.7 seconds. Those miscalculations ultimately allowed the Aussie to hold off his teammate and secure his sixth win of the season. But fans were left furious at the commentary, which seemed to downplay the Aussie's masterclass and instead hinted Norris was somewhat unlucky not to win. Piastri's win was put down to 'superior race management', while Norris' fate was sealed by 'unfortunate miscalculations'. Fans vented their feelings towards the commentary online. 'Insufferable dribble coming from Crofty. Piastri, no mistakes on higher degrading tyres with something left in the tank at the end not mentioned at all. Let's talk about his race management skills, which are superior to Lando's. The bias of Crofty is oozing out of him,' one fan wrote. 'As an Aussie, the absolutely anti-Piastri commentary from Sky Sports has been disgraceful. Brundle and Crofty normally love listening to both of you every race, but today's obsession with Lando was incredibly biased, English or not,' another said. 'Tell Crofty his sh** British Lando bias is getting out of hand! Lando is making mistakes left, right and centre and Croft still has him winning! Even after Oscar crossed the line and won, Croft was STILL crapping on about Norris. It's time for him to go,' a third added. Brundle noted those errors again when stating his belief – and hopes – for the remainder of the season. 'Once again in certain phases we saw the McLarens a second or two clear of the field every lap,' he wrote. 'Lando threw caution to the wind, he had nothing to lose, and he had to somehow disturb Oscar's tyre economy run, but three errors we saw on TV meant he came up short and had to settle for second and a further loss of eight points. 'I've felt the same way all year, when all the stars align I believe Lando is marginally the faster, but Oscar is more consistent, makes fewer errors, and is more clinical in combat. 'And his head is always rock solid. He'll take some beating in the closing stages now. 'Lando will need absolutely all he's got, all the time, to win this. 'We've very often seen two championship combatants find an overdrive and move to a scarcely believable level of delivery, it will be interesting to see if that happens over the next three Sprints and 10 GPs.' The Formula 1 season moves to the Hungaroring circuit this weekend for the Hungarian Grand Prix and the only place to see every F1 race live is on Kayo Sports and Foxtel.
The Australian
5 hours ago
- The Australian
Oscar Piastri wins Belgian F1 Grand Prix after dominant display over Lando Norris
Oscar Piastri profoundly believes he's the best driver. The feeling is palpable and in the waving of his index finger. There's the slightest, mousiest, squeaking hesitation in Lando Norris but nothing but deep self-assuredness in Piastri. He's intensely and wholeheartedly comfortable in his own skin. When it was bucketing down at Spa-Francorchamps before the Belgian Grand Prix, raining felines and canines, and where Formula One's most beautiful track slithers and snakes through the lush greenery and towering trees of the Ardennes Forest, and where there's enough room, time and space for a proper driving test, and may the best revhead win, Piastri sat calmly in the McLaren garage and barely said boo. When the moment came to pounce after an 80-minute delay, he pounced on Norris with a stealthy, catlike opening lap before his real masterpiece: managing severely worn tyres so expertly that he didn't require a second pit stop that would have given Norris the slightest whiff of late hope. Piastri expects to win. You can see it in his reactions. He took his sixth chequered flag of the season, the most by an Australian, while oozing the aura of someone who isn't remotely surprised because this is the way it's meant to be. 'Nicely done,' he told his garage with a hint of how-do-you-like-them-apples to those believing he'd been losing his grip on the title. Before a shot was fired at the start of the year, before a single ball was bowled, Piastri was prepared to look you fair-square in the eye and pronounce himself a world champion. This year? 'This year,' he said. There was nothing gobsmacking about Piastri's overtake of Norris on the opening lap. Starting second on a grid that vanished in favour of a rolling start behind the safety car, which was to Norris's advantage, Piastri nevertheless eased up alongside the Englishman at the start of the Kemmel Straight and, well, simply overtook him. 'It was very lively,' Piastri said. 'I knew lap one would be my best chance of winning the race. I lifted as little as I dared through Eau Rouge and it was enough. We had it mostly under control. Turns out starting second is not too bad after all.' Mostly under control. There's Piastri's season in a nutshell and single sentence. There's been a few hiccups and speed humps and roadblocks but he's had it mostly under control. There was no guarantee his medium tyres would hold out over the last 10 laps at Spa-Francorchamps, and his lead of eight seconds over Norris, on sprightlier tyres, was diminishing at a rapid rate, but told by his engineer that a pit stop wasn't an option, he cooly replied: 'I'm happy with that.' He won by 3.4 seconds. In doubt, never in doubt. 'Oscar just did a good job,' Norris said. 'We're pushing each other a lot. It's tough because you see where your strengths and weaknesses are easily. You learn from each other quickly. Nothing more to say. Nothing to complain of. He did a better job in the beginning and that was it. Nothing more I could do after that point. I would love to be on top but Oscar deserved it today. It's a good but tough battle we have at the minute. ' Tougher for Norris than Piastri, the nut he cannot crack, the quietly nutty driver whose wry grin and raised index finger says it all. He believes he's No.1. At McLaren. In the world. Norris has the same Lightning McQueen car and lashings of driving brilliance but Piastri toyed with his greatest rival at Spa-Francorchamps, sneaking up on him, then pawing at him like a cat does a trembling mouse, then devouring him to take a 16-point championship lead into this weekend's Austrian Grand Prix. He just did a good job. Nicely done. Motorsport Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri opened up on the inter-team rivalry fuelling both of their world title charges after another one-two finish at qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix. Motorsport Oscar Piastri has extended his lead at the top of the F1 standings but had to settle for second behind Max Verstappen in the Belgium sprint race.
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