First Look at F1 2025 – Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne
The pinnacle of motorsport returns this weekend as Formula One kicks off its 76th season. After many years of holding the opening race in the middle east, Melbourne Park in Australia will once again be the site of the first Grand Prix of the year.
The grid will look a lot different than in did in 2024, when all 20 drivers returned to their same team from the previous season. This time around, there will be five rookies and a sixth driver with less than a year experience.
There’s also been some shuffling of drivers on the biggest teams, the most notable being 7-time champion Lewis Hamilton signing with Ferrari after spending 12 years with Mercedes. Hamilton now shares a garage with Charles Leclerc, who won three Grands Prix last year and is one of just a handful of candidates with a shot at capturing this year’s Driver’s Championship.
It’s expected that Leclerc will be faster than Lewis to start the year, as the Stevenage native adjusts to a new car he had almost no hand in developing. While four-time defending champion Max Verstappen and Lando Norris are the favorites for 2025, Leclerc has shown great pace and is virtually certain to win some races this year. The numbers for Australia suggest this may happen sooner than later – but it may actually be pointing to Lando’s McLaren teammate, Oscar Piastri, who was just signed to a new contract extension right before this post went live. Could he become the first Aussie to win his home Grand Prix?
In my post on Oscar Piastri’s first win in Hungary last year, I talked about how it was synced to Oscar Pistorius.
In 2020, a Total solar eclipse began Brown Lunation # 1212. The race will be a span of exactly 222 weeks later and Eclipse = 222.
Sunday falls 1 year, 70 days after his release. Moon = 170.
Six six six (666)
With the wildfires in Los Angeles and all the recent air disasters, Kobe Bryant has been an important character to the news so far this year. See my Kobe Bryant playlist on YouTube to see how he’s connected to so many big stories. In 2006, Kobe scored the second-most points in a single game in NBA history with 81. It just so happened to be his 666th game.
Pistorius was born a span of exactly 750 weeks before Piastri. As this is F1’s 76th season, they are celebrating their 75th anniversary. Ferrari = 75.
Two days before the race, there will be a Total lunar eclipse on 3/14, or Pi Day.
Oscar was born a span of 3014 days after Kobe Bryant, and was 314 months old when he shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp:
This will be F1’s 1126th Grand Prix
Kobe Bryant died on 1/26
That’s the 26th day of the year
Piastri last won 26 weeks ago
Kobe scored 81 in 2006
Oscar Piastri drives the #81 car
In the King James Version, Six hundred threescore and six is said to be the Number of the Beast.
The race falls 313 weeks after Leclerc’s Ferrari debut and 313 days before the anniversary of Kobe’s big game:
Sunday falls exactly 5 years, 7 weeks after Kobe died and 5 months, 7 days before his birthday:
The 57th Prime number is 269 and Sunday also marks the first day of the 269th week since he died.
This means it will be exactly 268 weeks after Kobe’s crash. Kobe’s 81-point game was a span of 268 days before Leclerc’s birthday. He and Piastri were born 1,268 days apart.
Kobe played his 666th career game on January 22nd, or 1/22.
Charles picked up his first win for Ferrari on the 244th day of the year:
The 2440th digit of Pi is where 666 first appears:
Kobe’s 81-Point Game
The last three NASCAR Cup races have been won by Christopher Bell.
Ferrari is looking for their 248th win in the team’s history.
The number 144 is mentioned on four different occasions in the book of Revelation.
More Notes
Leclerc’s godfather was Jules Bianchi, the last F1 driver to have perished from injuries received in a crash. Jules was born on a date with 119 numerology, debuted in F1 during Lunation 1116, and died 119 days after a Total Eclipse on 7/17, and 7×17 = 119. The last Grand Prix he finished was the 911th in the history of Formula One.
The 197th Prime number is 1201
The first Australian Grand Prix in Formula One was held in 1985.
Kobe’s helicopter crash fell 5118 days after his 81-point game, and the Australian Grand Prix runs 5 years, 1 month, 18 days later: