F1 Season 2025

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It will be here quicker than you think , another 24 race season.
Glad it's back to an Australian opening race
Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, both return to being Sunday events.

Pre Season Testing is in Bahrain 26 to 28 February


RoundRaceCircuitDateSprint Races
1Australian Grand PrixAlbert ParkMar 14-16
2Chinese Grand PrixShanghai International CircuitMar 21-23SPRINT
3Japanese Grand PrixSuzukaApr 4-6
4Bahrain Grand PrixBahrain International CircuitApr 11-13
5Saudi Arabian Grand PrixJeddah Corniche CircuitApr 18-20
6Miami Grand PrixMiami International AutodromeMay 2-4
7Emilia Romagna Grand PrixImolaMay 16-18
8Monaco Grand PrixMonacoMay 23-25
9Spanish Grand PrixCircuit de CatalunyaMay 30-Jun 1
10Canadian Grand PrixCircuit Gilles VilleneuveJun 13-15
11Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingJun 27-29
12British Grand PrixSilverstoneJul 4-6
13Belgian Grand PrixSpa-FrancorchampsJul 25-27SPRINT
14Hungarian Grand PrixHungaroringAug 1-3
15Dutch Grand PrixZandvoortAug 29-31
16Italian Grand PrixMonzaSep 5-7
17Azerbaijan Grand PrixBaku City CircuitSep 19-21
18Singapore Grand PrixSingaporeOct 3-5
19United States Grand PrixCircuit of the AmericasOct 17-19SPRINT
20Mexican Grand PrixAutodromo Hermanos RodriguezOct 24-26
21Brazilian Grand PrixInterlagosNov 7-9SPRINT
22Las Vegas Grand PrixLas Vegas Strip CircuitNov 20-22SPRINT
23Qatar Grand PrixLosail International CircuitNov 28-30SPRINT
24Abu Dhabi Grand PrixYas MarinaDec 5-7
 
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Confirmed 2025 F1 driver line-ups​

Team Drivers
Red Bull Max Verstappen
Sergio Perez ?????
FerrariCharles Leclerc
Lewis Hamilton
MercedesKimi Antonelli
George Russell
McLarenLando Norris
Oscar Piastri
Aston MartinLance Stroll
Fernando Alonso
AlpinePierre Gasly
Jack Doohan
WilliamsAlex Albon
Carlos Sainz
RB (formerly AlphaTauri)Yuki Tsunoda
TBC
HaasOliver Bearman
Esteban Ocon
Sauber (formerly Alfa Romeo)Nico Hülkenberg
Gabriel Bortoleto
 
Here are some rule changes for Formula 1 in 2025:
  • Fastest lap point removal
    The point awarded to the driver who sets the fastest lap during a Grand Prix will be removed.

  • Junior driver requirement
    The requirement for teams to run junior drivers will be doubled. Each regular race driver will be required to sit out two sessions to give their car to a junior driver.

  • Car designs
    Teams are expected to make major updates to their 2024 cars, but no all-new designs.
 
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Can't say I'm too excited about this. Everything that has been wrong with F1 will be wrong again next year, and with the FIA dictator rampaging it will only get worse.
 
Ah, more sprints and gimmicks. See you in 2027.
 
I am quite excited. Lewis at Ferrari, hopefully four teams going at it again and also my fellow countryman Paul Aron being Alpine's reserve driver, at least until he manages to keep off of streaming.

This excitement will of course disappear after Max wins five in a row and seals the title before we get to Europe.
 
I’m sort of hopeful it’ll be a good season - the final season of any regs seem to be. More driver moves than I can remember in recent times (and indeed, more still potentially to come), and a good chance we will have 4 reasonably even teams yo-yoing at various points in the year.

Of course the craziness at the FIA may throw it all up in the air.
 
If RB still doesn't move on from Checo for next season I think they re already giving up on the WCC and possibly even the WDC. As good as Max is he could have used some help from a teammate this year to help on the strategic end. Plus I doubt they ll want the damage bill again. The other top teams will clearly have the superior combinations.

And hey Max may be more distracted with the birth of a child and may even have to miss a weekend or more bc of it. Add the 26 refs changes and i really don't see how they can afford to not slide in a new driver now who will have experience with the team before those changes happen.
 
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I just want a title fight across multiple teams and drivers

Just watching the documentary on Senna and it's showing his battle with Prost, something like that would be great please, at least if RB are going to dominate, let their drivers be fighting it out

Wonder who would win across an f1 season between all the multiple title winners in equal cars
 
pauldyson1uk said:
It will be here quicker than you think , another 24 race season.
Glad it's back to an Australian opening race
Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, both return to being Sunday events.

Pre Season Testing is in Bahrain 26 to 28 February


RoundRaceCircuitDateSprint Races
1Australian Grand PrixAlbert ParkMar 14-16
2Chinese Grand PrixShanghai International CircuitMar 21-23SPRINT
3Japanese Grand PrixSuzukaApr 4-6
4Bahrain Grand PrixBahrain International CircuitApr 11-13
5Saudi Arabian Grand PrixJeddah Corniche CircuitApr 18-20
6Miami Grand PrixMiami International AutodromeMay 2-4
7Emilia Romagna Grand PrixImolaMay 16-18
8Monaco Grand PrixMonacoMay 23-25
9Spanish Grand PrixCircuit de CatalunyaMay 30-Jun 1
10Canadian Grand PrixCircuit Gilles VilleneuveJun 13-15
11Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingJun 27-29
12British Grand PrixSilverstoneJul 4-6
13Belgian Grand PrixSpa-FrancorchampsJul 25-27SPRINT
14Hungarian Grand PrixHungaroringAug 1-3
15Dutch Grand PrixZandvoortAug 29-31
16Italian Grand PrixMonzaSep 5-7
17Azerbaijan Grand PrixBaku City CircuitSep 19-21
18Singapore Grand PrixSingaporeOct 3-5
19United States Grand PrixCircuit of the AmericasOct 17-19SPRINT
20Mexican Grand PrixAutodromo Hermanos RodriguezOct 24-26
21Brazilian Grand PrixInterlagosNov 7-9SPRINT
22Las Vegas Grand PrixLas Vegas Strip CircuitNov 20-22SPRINT
23Qatar Grand PrixLosail International CircuitNov 28-30SPRINT
24Abu Dhabi Grand PrixYas MarinaDec 5-7
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Why is the Canadian GP where it is? In the middle(ish) of the European GPs.
 
Hope no team (apart from Ferrari :o) run away with any development and it remains close again next year.

I’d love Hamilton to get a good year in the Ferrari
 
Abizzz said:
Can't say I'm too excited about this. Everything that has been wrong with F1 will be wrong again next year, and with the FIA dictator rampaging it will only get worse.
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Why do you care so much about the FIA? In general they made absolutely no influence on this year drivers' championship winner, constructors championship or anything else that actually matters when you are watching F1. I don't think there's single driver or team that has been done by the FIA this year.

Racing has been great, and by the looks of it it will be even better next year with many teams being so competitive at the front. Also when is the last time slowest teams have been so decent too?
 
Should be a lot of fun if it's anything like this season without the 10 races worth of Max processions at the start.
 
Amar__ said:
Why do you care so much about the FIA? In general they made absolutely no influence on this year drivers' championship winner, constructors championship or anything else that actually matters when you are watching F1. I don't think there's single driver or team that has been done by the FIA this year.

Racing has been great, and by the looks of it it will be even better next year with many teams being so competitive at the front. Also when is the last time slowest teams have been so decent too?
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Yeah you're not wrong really. In my years of watching F1 since the early 90s I'm not sure I recall a time when just about every team was able to keep up for at least the first half of the race. When is the last time numerous cars were lapped once or even twice? Feels like it's been a while. Even in 21 there was little competition outside of Merc and RB. Only thing that continues to make F1 a tad more predictable however is that cars are stupendously reliable these days and often hardly sustain damage in collisions. Or at least not enough to not make it back to the pits.
 
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Yeah you're not wrong really. In my years of watching F1 since the early 90s I'm not sure I recall a time when just about every team was able to keep up for at least the first half of the race. When is the last time numerous cars were lapped once or even twice? Feels like it's been a while. Even in 21 there was little competition outside of Merc and RB. Only thing that continues to make F1 a tad more predictable however is that cars are stupendously reliable these days and often hardly sustain damage in collisions. Or at least not enough to not make it back to the pits.
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Yeah, cars being reliable is the only "annoying" thing these days about racing which makes it more predictable for the teams with their organisation, but that plus general quality of the cars at least make these cars much safer for drivers to be fair.

I want to remember my hero Schumacher times as the best period of F1, but let's face it, he was regulary lapping half of the grid, and some cars were behind even 2-3 laps regulary. Today you had Magnussen in one of the worst cars on the grid keeping Leclerc for at least 3 laps, Russel struggling half race with Gasley who is not supposed to be Mercedes level, etc.
 
Amar__ said:
Why do you care so much about the FIA? In general they made absolutely no influence on this year drivers' championship winner, constructors championship or anything else that actually matters when you are watching F1. I don't think there's single driver or team that has been done by the FIA this year.

Racing has been great, and by the looks of it it will be even better next year with many teams being so competitive at the front. Also when is the last time slowest teams have been so decent too?
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Because they are responsible for almost everything that detracts from the racing, and the way things have turned at the helm this year they will only get worse. Be it too big cars, be it tires that can't race when it's damp, be it inconsistent marshaling or the insistence that drs has to stay for seemingly ever. The one memorable great performance this year happened with drs deactivated for the majority of it (Max in the wet in Sao Paolo).

Verstappen, Norris, Leclerc and to a bit lesser extent Piastri, Russel and some others have shown to be a great generation (Max obviously being the stand out). With Lewis and Fernando still about I truly believe we have among the most exciting driver line up we've had in a very long time and we've not had the racing to show for it. Just look through the 2024 thread and see on how many weekends people complained that barely anything happened.
 
You'd think they could have at least spread the sprint races through out the season.
 
I cannot wait for 2026.

Alonso has confirmed Cardile will be joining AM in January.
 
Please just don’t have one team with a rocket for the first 7-8 races so it’s over early. This season would have been brilliant had we just got the back and forth in performance we got from mid season onwards.
 
Abizzz said:
Because they are responsible for almost everything that detracts from the racing, and the way things have turned at the helm this year they will only get worse. Be it too big cars, be it tires that can't race when it's damp, be it inconsistent marshaling or the insistence that drs has to stay for seemingly ever. The one memorable great performance this year happened with drs deactivated for the majority of it (Max in the wet in Sao Paolo).

Verstappen, Norris, Leclerc and to a bit lesser extent Piastri, Russel and some others have shown to be a great generation (Max obviously being the stand out). With Lewis and Fernando still about I truly believe we have among the most exciting driver line up we've had in a very long time and we've not had the racing to show for it. Just look through the 2024 thread and see on how many weekends people complained that barely anything happened.
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I'm curious about what kind of racing it is that you're looking for? Do you want more overtakes, more manufacturers capable of winning races, a more compact field in terms of performance from best to worst? Because all of those things are so much better right now than in pretty much any other era of F1. (sure we've only had it for 2/3 of a season, but still)

I mean I've watched F1 for about a little over 30 years and I can't really see why it's supposedly so bad, or not as good right now compared to...whenever. Except for one thing of course which is a battle for the drivers title over a full season which is obviously what we're all looking for, but doesn't seem to be the only thing you're missing.
 
Loads to look forward to next year. Hopefully a proper fight for the WDC given how close the pace between the top 4 teams has become at times this season. Seeing Lewis in a Ferrari is going to be mega, I can't wait for that. There's a load of Rookies joining, Antonelli, Bearman, Doohan, Bortoletto... seeing how they all get on will be fascinating. Then there's the team moves, Sainz to Williams and whether he'll outshine Albon, Hulk to Sauber and whether they can finally get themselves together, Ocon to Haas... We might even see a new face in at Red Bull but really who the hell knows with that lot.

I think this off season is going to struggle to topple last years though, we had Hornergate & Lewis' Ferrari announcement last year so it'll will have to be something pretty crazy!
 
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yeah 2026 should be epic, well hopefully
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What makes you say that? There has been very little Ive read so far that makes me think it will be great. Cars will be drastically slower to start, harvesting will be even more important, and the potential for one supplier to be way better than anyone else is a true risk without being able to combat it with passive aero. Cornering speed in particular seems like it will be impacted. Its not the cars getting smaller will be anything to get excited about either because they ll still be massive compared to pre these regs.

Hopefully whatever tweaks they made to downforce regs will help improve on what we ll be likely to see.

And then of course there is Pirelli - will they have tyres that are actually ready from the get go? They said they were last time but that clearly wasn't true.
 
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2026 could end up being another team running away with it. 2025 has the potential to be the Max/Lewis battle if a few years ago, with even more potential winners.
 
Zlaatan said:
I'm curious about what kind of racing it is that you're looking for? Do you want more overtakes, more manufacturers capable of winning races, a more compact field in terms of performance from best to worst? Because all of those things are so much better right now than in pretty much any other era of F1. (sure we've only had it for 2/3 of a season, but still)

I mean I've watched F1 for about a little over 30 years and I can't really see why it's supposedly so bad, or not as good right now compared to...whenever. Except for one thing of course which is a battle for the drivers title over a full season which is obviously what we're all looking for, but doesn't seem to be the only thing you're missing.
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The kind of racing where overtakes are the result of better driving and not the push of a button.
 
Abizzz said:
The kind of racing where overtakes are the result of better driving and not the push of a button.
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I think that's more difficult than it sounds in the era we're in. Engineers are designing cars to disrupt airflow to keep cars just outside of DRS, but close enough to keep tyre wear on the car behind at a maximum. Bringing in regulations to outwit the likes of Newey is probably not that easy and we'd end up with no overtakes again.

Maybe test it in sprint races when the 2026 rules are brought in?
 
Abizzz said:
The kind of racing where overtakes are the result of better driving and not the push of a button.
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I think that would be amazing as well, but I can't see how we'd have that and at the same time not have a ton more races where, as you said before, nothing happened.
 
I don't share the same optimism for '26 either. From what I've read, the impact of the ICE is even more diminished in lieu of electric power generation. So the cars will be both slower and will sound worse than the current gen which don't sound great either.
 
Watching the last of the Netflix series on Senna, it's absolutely incredulous the race still went ahead despite Ratzenburgers death.

It was about 2 years before I started watching as a child

They should do a documentary on Prof Sid Watkins and how he worked to develop and improve safety
 
United Hobbit said:
Watching the last of the Netflix series on Senna, it's absolutely incredulous the race still went ahead despite Ratzenburgers death.

It was about 2 years before I started watching as a child

They should do a documentary on Prof Sid Watkins and how he worked to develop and improve safety
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Watched both events live on telly it was absolutely shocking to watch. Remember it like it was yesterday.
 

Bin Sulayem open to F1 permanent stewards – but asks who pays for them​


Bin Sulayem acknowledges that there would be benefits from having permanent stewards in place, but he says the crux of the issue is over where their salary comes from – because the extra expense is not something the FIA can afford to fund itself.
“It’s very nice talk,” he told Autosport about the calls for a change. “But when they say professional, and they want professional, they don't want to pay for it. That is so obvious.

“They talk and then they say, ‘where are you putting the money? Why we don't do this?’
“But I don't say, ‘oh, sorry, what about you?’ The drivers are getting over $100 million. Do I ask where they spend it? No, it's up to them. It's their right.
“So please, it’s not only me saying it is none of their business. We do whatever we do with our money. It's our business. It's also [the same] with them and their money. It's their business.
“But I don't really sometimes understand. It's always about the FIA. Why are we doing this? Why are we doing that? But did anyone go to FOM?”
Ben Sulayem went on to explain that some understanding was needed about how much investment was needed to train stewards up.
"I say it again and again - stewards do not grow on trees,” he said. “It takes time to educate them. It takes time to train them. And then you evolve them, so we have a programme.
“I see the point about having them maybe like the Premier League where they [the referees] are paid. But we don't have the money to do that.
“So we have to be also very careful of the way we are going. As long as they are committed, fair, and they are trained properly, then there will be stewards who come and go.”
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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/b...979.816111617.1734078607-858183076.1729240029
 
Is there any other sport which has more clueless commentary and presenter teams? I know football is a bit similar, lots of shouting etc.., but surely nothing comes close to F1.

If you watch a Moto GP race it's really interesting because whoever the commentators are, they know everything to do with bikes and racing. The F1 shouter gives no insight into anything, which just makes things confusing. It used to be fun with Murray, but I always got the impression he was genuinely excited. The current guy, just annoying.

It's a bit of a shame really. Is it that difficult? If it's not exciting on its own, some shouting isn't going to fix it.
 
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