Going into the new Formula One season, so much attention was being placed on Lando Norris as the championship favorite. McLaren’s surge to last year’s constructors’ championship was spearheaded by Norris,

The polesitter was hit with a five-second penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage on lap one of the race

With Verstappen starting on pole position, and Piastri alongside him on the front row, the two battled into the first corner after the McLaren driver got a tremendous start off the line. Verstappen managed to hold onto the position,