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  •   Home > News > Sports > Motorsports

    Six rookies and radically changed teams highlight the new Formula One season, which roars into action with this afternoon's first practice for the Melbourne Grand Prix

    Six rookies and radically changed teams highlight the new Formula One season, which roars into action with this afternoon's first practice for the Melbourne Grand Prix


    Only two of the ten teams have kept the same driver line-up from last season.

    Four-time defending champion Max Verstappen feels like he's driving into the unknown.



    The first practice starts at two thirty, with Kiwi Liam Lawson making his Red Bull debut as Verstappen's teammate.

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