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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kieran Jackson

Power cut, Monaco rule change and Hamilton in red: Day one of F1 in 2025 did not disappoint

Take a look at the leaderboard and, at first glance, you may well assume not much has changed.

At the end of nine hours of track time on day one of testing in Bahrain, one more hour than planned, McLaren’s Lando Norris topped the timesheet, picking up from where he left off with his win at the season finale in Abu Dhabi in December, which secured the papaya’s first constructors’ title since 1998.

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