Formula 1 in 2025: How to watch the Australian Grand Prix on TV and what to know

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Here is a guide that tells you everything you need to know about Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix — the year’s first Formula 1 race.

— In the U.S., ESPN.

— Other countries are listed here.

The 5.2-kilometer (3.2-mile) Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit is laid out around a lake in Melbourne's inner suburbs and uses roads which are open to the public for the remainder of the year. It's a relatively fast track but overtaking is often difficult. This will be the first time since 2019 that Australia hosts the season-opening race. The 2020 Australian GP was cancelled two hours before the scheduled season-opening racing weekend because of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the lowlights of Max Verstappen’s 2024 world championship season was at Melbourne Park, where he went out in the fourth lap of the race with a fiery mechanical failure.

Get caught up:

— Lando Norris takes pole for Sunday's race.

— Lewis Hamilton ready to race for Ferrari for the first time in F1’s season-opening Australian GP

— Red carpet, fashion and music: F1 launches its 2025 season Hollywood style

— Any hope Red Bull's Christian Horner had of leaving last year's sordid season behind him has been dashed

— Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli says Lewis Hamilton told him to enjoy himself in F1

— Oscar Piastri has signed a “multi-year” contract extension with McLaren

— George Russell says he won’t change approach to Max Verstappen after F1 feud in 2024

— Lando Norris says he’ll drive with ‘elbows out’ to compete with Max Verstappen this F1 season

— Meet Formula 1's biggest rookie class in year

— Lewis Hamilton wants to win another F1 title at 40. It hasn’t been done since the 1960s

5 — Verstappen is targeting a fifth world title in a row. Only three other drivers — including Lewis Hamilton — have won five titles. Of those, only Michael Schumacher won five consecutively.

8 — Hamilton is aiming to win a record-breaking eighth title after joining his new team, Ferrari.

24 - The Australian Grand Prix kicks off a 24-race schedule, matching the record set last year for the longest F1 season.

Lewis Hamilton qualified eighth-fastest in his Ferrari debut as McLaren’s Lando Norris claimed pole position. Norris went into the third session of final qualifying on the back foot after his first lap was deleted for track limit infringements at turn four, where he had all four wheels off the track. Norris’ teammate and Melbourne-born Oscar Piastri was second, enabling McLaren to lock out the front row for the second straight race, following 2024’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, the defending world champion, claimed third, shrugging off pre-season pace concerns for the team about its RB21 car.

"It isn’t quite where we wanted to be but overall I’m satisfied with the progress we have made over the past two days ... but given this is a weekend of firsts for me, I didn’t underestimate how steep the learning curve would be” — Hamilton on qualifying eighth.

"Not a bad way to start the year, thanks everyone” — Norris on his team radio shortly after the qualifying session ended.

“Pretty happy. It’s obviously great to start the year on the front row — only one position back from what I would’ve liked." — Piastri.

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Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain prepares for qualifying at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (Tracey Nearmy/Pool Photo via AP)

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri of Australia reacts following his second place finish in qualifying at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)

McLaren driver Lando Norris, centre of Britain poses after taking pole position with second placed teammate Oscar Piastri, left, of Australia and third placed Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Scott Barbour)

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri of Australia waits in his car during the second practice session for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Heath McKinley )

McLaren driver Lando Norris of Britain steers his car during the second practice session for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc of Monaco steers his car during the second practice session for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Scott Barbour)

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain steers his car during the second practice session for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands in action during a Formula One pre-season test at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri of Australia makes a pit stop during a Formula One pre-season test at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton, of Britain, is seen on a giant screen during a team presentation event, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton, of Britain, smiles during a team presentation event, in Milan, Italy , Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

DETROIT (AP) — Justyn-Henry Malloy hit a pinch-hit single in the ninth to end the game and give the Detroit Tigers a 6-5 win over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night.

Aroldis Chapman (2-2) walked Andy Ibáñez to start the inning. Connor Wong threw the ball into center field as Ibáñez stole second, putting a runner on third. Malloy hit for Akil Baddoo and lined a single to center.

Alex Bregman homered in the fourth to put Boston up 2-1, but Detroit tied the game in the bottom of the inning.

Riley Greene's two-run homer helped the Tigers take a 5-2 lead in the sixth, but the Red Sox drove Tarik Skubal out of the game with a three-run seventh.

Nick Sogard started the rally with a one-out single, then took second when Carlos Narváez snapped Skubal's streak of 27 innings without a walk. Ceddanne Rafaela ended Skubal's night with an RBI single, and Jarren Duran and Rafael Devers tied the game with RBI singles off Tyler Holton.

Tommy Kahnle replaced Holton and got pinch-hitter Wilyer Abreu to hit into a double play.

Boston had runners on the corners with one out in the ninth, but Will Vest (3-0) struck out Devers and Bregman grounded into a force at second.

It appeared Kerry Carpenter had given the Tigers a 6-5 lead in the seventh, but Abreu reached over the right-field fence to rob him of a home run. The ball deflected off the heel of his glove and into Rafaela's for a rare 9-8 putout. The last 9-8 putout before today was on Sept. 14, 2003, when the Twins’ Michael Ryan lost the ball in the sun and it hit off his head and Dustan Mohr caught it.

Skubal has struck out 61 batters and walked two in his last seven starts, covering 43 1/3 innings.

Boston goes home for a three-game series against the Atlanta Braves, who could start Chris Sale on Friday. That would make the Red Sox the first team in MLB history to face both defending Cy Young winners in back-to-back games.

Tigers RHP Jack Flaherty (1-5, 4.61) is expected to start Friday in Toronto.

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Detroit Tigers pitcher Tyler Holton throws against the Boston Red Sox in the seventh inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Detroit Tigers' Riley Greene slides safely into home plate ahead of the tag of Boston Red Sox catcher Carlos Narváez in the second inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Boston Red Sox pitcher Justin Slaten throws against the Detroit Tigers in the eighth inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Detroit Tigers' Dillon Dingler slides safely into home plate ahead of the tag by Boston Red Sox catcher Carlos Narváez (75) in the sixth inning during a baseball game, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)