No Lewis Hamilton! Emma Raducanu supports this pilot to become 2025 world champion | Sports News

Last update:March 15, 2025, 10:20 isth

Emma Raducanu, in a recent interaction with Sky Sports, put her money in Max Verstappen for the 2025 championship despite the brilliant form of McLaren at this time.

Lewis Hamilton signs autographs while walking through the F1 Paddock at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix (Image Credit: AP)

The British tennis star, Emma Raducanu, has said that Max Verstappen will become the world champion for the end of the 2025 season, ignoring her compatriot Lewis Hamilton, who would compete for an eighth record world championship this season.

Raducanu, in a recent interaction with Sky Sports, Put your money in Verstappen for the 2025 championship despite the brilliant form of McLaren at this time.

Verstappen has been winning the championship during the last four years, and according to Raducanu, the first one could do five consecutive.

“I am Emma Raducanu and these are my formula predictions 1. I think Max Verstappen will win,” said Raducanu.

Raducanu resorted to the support of McLaren in the Construction Championship.

“I mean, McLaren. I want them to win, yes, “said the British tennis star.

McLaren was the strongest side of the free practice sessions on Friday, with Lando Norris exceeding the FP1 and Oscar Piastri session ending in P4.

Compared to them, the winner of the Raducanu, Verstappen championship, handled P5 on FP1 and P7 on FP2.

Meanwhile, the hero of the hometown of McLaren, Piastri, directed a super competitive final practice session on Saturday, March 15 for the Australian GP of Formula 1 on Sunday with only 39 thousandth of a second ahead of George Russell de Mercedes.

The piastri born in Melbourne exchanged the best times with Russell and Verstappen, who was the third fastest. The latter was the reference point during the first 22 minutes of the session.

Ferrari finished the order, with the first man of the second practice Charles Leclercarc in fourth place, almost three tenths of the rhythm, while his teammate Hamilton was eighth.

Russell Mercedes teammate, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, closed the first five, ahead of the two Williams pilots, who again showed a brilliant rhythm, with the Australian champion defender Carlos Sainz Sixth ahead of his teammate Alex Albon.

Haas’s rookie, Oliver Bearman, stopped the final practice just four minutes from the session, with the British taking out the red flags after he lost control of the car in curve 11 and buried the car in the gravel.

The recruit of Red Bull, Liam Lawson, could not establish a return, with the side stating that the problem in his car was a “problem of the power unit or the power unit system on the air side.”