• Updates from the Formula 1 GP season-opener in Melbourne

• Oscar Piastri crashes out during warm-up

• Lights out in Albert Park at 3pm AEDT/4am GMT

• Any thoughts? Email Joey

Drama in the warm-up lap! Piastri might be out of the Grand Prix! He’s gone into the wall during the warm-up lap. Boy oh boy, wowee.

Having delivered a somewhat more sturdy tyre this season, Pirelli are of the view that a one-stop strategy is the way to go for today’s race: starting out on mediums before pitting for hards between laps 20 to 26 or, alternatively, starting the race on softs before swapping them for hards between lap 15 to 21.

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