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1. Lando Norris – 25 points

2. Max Verstappen – 18 points

3. George Russell – 15 points

4. Kimi Antonelli – 12 points

5. Alex Albon – 10 points

6. Lance Stroll – 8 points

7. Nico Hulkenberg – 6 points

8. Charles Leclerc – 4 points

9. Oscar Piastri – 2 points

10. Lewis Hamilton – 1 point

11. Pierre Gasly – 0 points

12. Yuki Tsunoda – 0 points

14. Ollie Bearman – 0 points

The Brit eventually slipped to 10th and there was evident friction between him and his new race engineer, Riccardo Adami, with Hamilton repeatedly telling him to “leave me to it” and swearing over the radio when told of his drop down the rankings having had the chance to win on his debut for the Scuderia.

“Makes no difference for me at the minute,” he insisted, when asked about ‘favourites’ tag.

“I’m not thinking about it. I don’t really care about it. It shouldn’t change anything I do, it shouldn’t change what the team do. I had one good weekend. People need to calm down a little bit!

“No, I stay focused and I try and do the same here this weekend. But yeah, I probably won’t even think of the championship until at least halfway through the year “

There’s nothing like racing agony, the reality of a new dawn compared to the high-octane hullaballoo, to wipe out a two-month period of euphoric bliss. Lewis Hamilton arrived in Melbournevisibly joyous ahead of the opening chapter of his Ferrari story.

Three days on, F1’s joint-most successful driver will now be under no illusions regarding the scale of the voyage ahead.

Report from last race in Australia:

A touching moment from the last race in Australia!

Lewis Hamilton’s dad Anthony consoled Isack Hadjar in a heartwarming moment in the paddock after the rookie crashed out in a disastrous start to his F1 career.

Torrential rain in Melbourne on Sunday meant very wet conditions for the drivers by the time pole-sitter Lando Norris led the cars round for the formation lap at Albert Park.

Yet French driver Hadjar, 20, who was starting 11th on the grid for Racing Bulls, spun randomly at turn one, with his car propelled into the wall.

Rory Reid described his former co-star as a “legend” while Chris Harris said the former Formula One team owner was a “pure force of nature”.

TV pundit and entrepreneur Jordan, who disclosed in December that he had been diagnosed with cancer, appeared on the BBC motoring show between 2016 and 2018.

“Go and listen to the radio calls with others and their engineers…far worse,” Hamilton said, in his press conference ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix.

“The conversation that Max has with an engineer [Lambiase] over the years, the abuse that the poor guy’s taken and you never write about it, but you wrote about the smallest little discussion I had with mine.”