31 December 2025 18:32
Several of the Formula 1 team chiefs have chosen their top 10 drivers for the 2025 season.
McLaren's Andrea Stella, Mercedes' Toto Wolff, Williams's James Vowles, Racing Bulls' Alan Permane, Haas's Ayao Komatsu, Sauber's Jonathan Wheatley, Alpine's Steve Nielsen and Aston Martin's senior leadership teams took part in the task.
F1 has asked the team principals to share their top 10 rankings ...
31 December 2025 17:58
Brad Pitt and Damson Idris were really driving in the APXGP cars during the F1 movie, and Apple has now shared a glimpse into how the actors prepared for the physical element of their roles.
F1 follows nomadic driver Sonny Hayes (Pitt) as he returns to Formula 1 to help the struggling APXGP team, alongside rookie driver Joshua Pearce (Idris).
The film was shot during real-life race ...
31 December 2025 17:22
As 2025 draws to a close, the Formula 1 drivers have been sharing their on and off-track highlights of the year.
From Lando Norris's first drivers' championship title to Charles Leclerc's engagement to his long-term partner, Alexandra Saint Mleux, the drivers have had a lot to celebrate this year.
Here is a round-up of the drivers' posts to date.
Lando Norris, McLaren
Norris ...
31 December 2025 17:06
Lewis Hamilton has detailed how he remains mentally a d physically strong and how his training has changed over his 19 years in Formula 1.
At 40 years old, the Briton is the second-oldest driver on the grid behind two-time champion Fernando Alonso at 44. Over the years, his approach to training and his non-negotiables have changed.
"When I was younger, I think the training was really my ...
31 December 2025 16:07
Seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton has shared an update on his Mission 44 foundation, revealing that the charity has reached over 500,000 young people in the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil.
The British driver founded Mission 44 in 2021 with the aim of increasing diversity and inclusion in motorsport.
"Hi everyone, I just wanted to update you on where we're at with ...
31 December 2025 15:43
Gabriel Bortoleto has shared his mixed feelings about his first home grand prix during his rookie season. While he suffered multiple crashes during the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend, he also felt the love and support of his home fans.
The Brazilian driver suffered a high-speed crash during the sprint race at Interlagos. Thankfully, he was able to walk away from the 57G crash and was cleared to ...
31 December 2025 14:21
The 2026 Formula 1 season is already creeping up on us with car launches set for as early as 15 January.
While McLaren, Mercedes and Williams are yet to confirm their reveal dates, all other teams have announced when fans will be able to see their 2026 designs ahead of the season.
Red Bull and Racing Bulls are set to kick off the launches on 15 January with an event in Detroit, Michigan, and ...
31 December 2025 14:00
As Alpine chief Flavio Briatore demonstrated in 2025, Red Bull isn't the only organisation in Formula 1 capable of making brutal driver decisions. Rookie Jack Doohan was still getting started when a brace of incidents was enough for him to face the axe, with a high-speed Suzuka crash the most high-profile mistake that saw the Australian demoted to a reserve role after round six in Miami.
It ...
31 December 2025 13:03
Alpine managing director Steve Nielsen downplayed the idea of long-term recovery timelines as the Enstone-based team looks to rebuild itself in Formula 1.
This marks a clear departure from the philosophy of Alpine’s previous management, which committed to a so-called 100-race plan designed to return the team to the front of the grid. That project began in 2021, when Renault rebranded its ...
31 December 2025 12:51
Racing Bulls Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson has raised over NZ$50,000 for breast cancer research during the winter break.
The New Zealander drew in a large crowd to Highlands Motorsport Park in Cromwell, Otago and gave fans hot laps to raise money for breast cancer research in various supercars, including an Aston Martin Vulcan and a Porsche GT3. The hot laps were offered via a silent ...
31 December 2025 12:09
After taking victory in the Dutch Grand Prix, Oscar Piastri was sitting pretty at the top of the Formula 1 championship. Lando Norris' retirement from second put the Briton 34 points behind his team-mate, with Max Verstappen now 104 points behind. A series of stellar victories in the early phases of the season had demonstrated Piastri's efficacy in a position of dominance, as he sought retribution ...
31 December 2025 10:33
Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli believes the team's ill-fated suspension change cost him "two or three months" of development during his first Formula 1 season.
Mercedes introduced a tweaked rear suspension geometry at Imola's Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, back in May, as it further tried to home in on its relative lack of low-speed performance and its rear tyre temperature issues, taking ...
30 December 2025 21:26
The CEO of Silverstone, the home of the British Grand Prix, Stuart Pringle, is set to be appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King's New Year Honours list for his services to motorsport.
Pringle was appointed CEO of the Silverstone Circuit in 2017 after serving as Club Secretary for the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC), which operates the track, since 2006 ...
30 December 2025 17:30
Fernando Alonso has taken delivery of an Aston Martin DBX S as he adds yet another high-performance car from the British marque to his collection.
The two-time Formula 1 champion took delivery of the £210,000+ performance SUV in Monaco and was pictured posing alongside it outside Aston Martin's Monaco dealership. Receiving the car just days before Christmas, this is a present the majority of ...
30 December 2025 16:48
Ferrari Formula 1 team boss Fred Vasseur is expecting to see rapid in-season development as squads get to grips with the new regulations and doesn't believe the pecking order will remain static after the opening race in Melbourne.
The 2026 regulations change, encompassing new power units, energy deployment and aerodynamics, is one of the biggest rule resets in F1 history, and presents Ferrari ...
30 December 2025 16:03
Esteban Ocon has published a social post featuring his new customised Mansory Lamborghini Revuelto. Posting a photo of him standing beside his new V12 hypercar, Ocon kept the caption short: "First drive," it read.
The car wears a predominantly black paint job with red accents, a contrast that the customisation company has often leant into in its recognisable builds.
Mansory, the ...
30 December 2025 15:49
Gabriel Bortoleto may have been the reigning Formula 2 champion, but by making his Formula 1 debut for the struggling Sauber squad the Brazilian's rookie season looked set to go unnoticed.
The first Brazilian on the grid in eight years, Bortoleto suffered a humbling debut experience in Melbourne, spinning out in difficult circumstances. But the former McLaren junior rebounded admirably, even if ...
30 December 2025 14:43
Lando Norris joked that it is all downhill from here after clinching his first Formula 1 drivers' championship title in 2025.
The fight for the championship went down to the wire at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. A third-place finish was enough for Norris to win the championship with two points over Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who finished second in the standings, while Oscar Piastri ...
30 December 2025 13:34
Former Haas Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner chose Ollie Bearman as his 2025 rookie of the year.
The British driver finished his rookie season with Steiner's former team 13th in the drivers' standings with 41 points, ahead of his experienced team-mate Esteban Ocon in 15th with 38 points. While he started the season making some mistakes, he celebrated a fourth-place finish at the ...
30 December 2025 12:03
The 2025 Formula 1 season did not bring a new world title for Red Bull, but will nonetheless be remembered for Max Verstappen’s remarkable comeback.
The Dutchman said in Abu Dhabi that he felt even better than he had 12 months earlier. This may sound surprising, given he was world champion back then, but at the time he already sensed things going wrong within Red Bull – a trend that ...
30 December 2025 09:29
Lance Stroll is something of an oddity in Formula 1 these days. After showing flashes of talent in the feeder series and moments of brilliance in F1 – like a shock pole position at a wet Turkish Grand Prix – he's now become something of an also-ran.
Nowhere was this more apparent than in the 2025 season, Stroll’s ninth in Formula 1, as the Canadian struggled with his car and his own ...
29 December 2025 20:42
Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali believes new world champion Lando Norris has the personality to carry the championship's crown, but adds that to do this, he needs to "keep smiling".
Speaking to Sky Sports after the driver confirmed his place in the history books following a successful Abu Dhabi campaign, the F1 chief outlined what he expects from the new champion as he detailed the ...
29 December 2025 20:29
Formula 1 fans have the opportunity to own a piece of the Suzuka Circuit as the home of the Japanese Grand Prix undergoes track changes ahead of the 2026 race.
The Suzuka Circuit is being resurfaced in parts, so the track will be selling the asphalt, although the price is yet to be confirmed.
"Due to the road resurfacing construction on the Suzuka Circuit West Course, we will be selling the ...
29 December 2025 18:00
One look at the 2026 driver roster tells you everything you need to know about Isack Hadjar's rookie campaign with Racing Bulls. Other than Mercedes runner Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Hadjar placed the highest of 2025's midfield batch of rookies by consistently qualifying where his car deserved to be – between ninth and 10th on average, and then converting that into regular points.
The Frenchman's ...
29 December 2025 17:01
Lando Norris has revealed a number of text messages and private conversations with the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and even MotoGP champion Casey Stoner helped him as he fought against Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen in the final races of the 2025 Formula 1 season.
Speaking to F1.com after finally turning his nine years at McLaren into a championship win, Norris described the ...
29 December 2025 16:05
Following his 2025 Formula 1 championship win, Lando Norris opened up about the sacrifices his family made that allowed him to rise through the ranks, culminating in his success with McLaren.
After a season-long duel with team-mate Oscar Piastri and eventually sparring with Red Bull's Max Verstappen, Norris finally converted his nine years with McLaren into a title. But for his family, this ...
29 December 2025 16:05
Gabriel Bortoleto is adamant not to let the fame of Formula 1 get to his head, joking that he has told his friends to slap him if he ever changes.
The 21-year-old driver joined Sauber for his rookie season in 2025 after clinching the 2024 Formula 2 championship. He impressed in his first year in the series alongside his experienced team-mate, Nico Hulkenberg.
Bortoleto is keen not to let the ...
29 December 2025 15:00
The 2025 Formula 1 season welcomed an unusually high number of rookies onto the grid which provided a focus point throughout the campaign.
While some of the rookies starred, others floundered and some didn’t even make it to the end of the season. Here’s who our writers have picked as the standout rookie of the year.
Gabriel Bortoleto – Ed Hardy
To be fair to the rookie class of F1 ...
29 December 2025 12:40
Oscar Piastri made an appearance at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Boxing Day, with the Formula 1 driver attending Australia's traditional Boxing Day Test as he enjoyed his downtime over the winter break.
Piastri completed his best season so far after he helped McLaren secure its 2025 constructors' championship, finishing third in the drivers' standings behind Red Bull's Max Verstappen and ...
29 December 2025 12:39
Fernando Alonso has been making the most of his impressive car collection during the winter break. After being spotted around the streets of Monaco in his extremely rare Mercedes CLK GTR, the Spanish driver has now been seen in his Aston Martin Valiant.
The ultra-rare, road-legal, track-focused sports car was built by the Q department of Aston Martin after being commissioned by Alonso. The ...
29 December 2025 12:02
Carlos Sainz has confirmed that the fan-made 'Sparkles' unicorn sticker will remain on his helmet design next year. This means the feel-good story that started earlier in the 2025 season won't come to an end this Christmas.
Asked in a video posted by the Williams Formula 1 team on Instagram whether the sticker will be staying on the helmet next season, he had a clear response: “It has to ...
29 December 2025 12:00
Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has put his faith in Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur and drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc having a plan in place to place the Maranello outfit in a stronger position.
Hamilton joined Ferrari ahead of the 2025 season after a 12-year stint with Mercedes, and while expectations for his arrival were high, the seven-time champion took time to adjust to ...
29 December 2025 11:12
Andrea Kimi Antonelli's first season in Formula 1 has proven a level of maturity beyond his years - something that Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has praised several times over the year. But over the Christmas period, the young driver reminded fans that he's got plenty of character, too, as he gave out presents at a children's hospital in Bologna.
The 18-year-old Italian visited the ...
29 December 2025 10:58
You’d forgive Charles Leclerc for having had lofty expectations for the 2025 Formula 1 season. After all, Ferrari did narrowly miss out on the constructors’ world title last year, so the team was expected to be at the front of the field again.
It didn’t quite go that way, and Leclerc’s seventh season with the Scuderia arguably was his worst since 2021 – at least in terms of ...
29 December 2025 10:19
Max Verstappen’s race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase could be set to leave Red Bull, bringing an end to a partnership that yielded four consecutive Formula 1 world drivers’ titles.
It was initially reported that the end of the 2025 championship would mark the conclusion of Lambiase’s work alongside Verstappen, with the 45-year-old British engineer understood to have asked Red Bull management ...
28 December 2025 23:47
Fans have been left in stitches following a post from Max Verstappen's partner, Kelly Piquet, over the Christmas period. The four-time champion was pictured holding a black T-shirt featuring a stylised version of one of his Las Vegas Grand Prix moments: trophy in hand, glasses on.
The photo was shared as a story on Instagram, but it was on Reddit where it really took off.
Within hours, the ...
28 December 2025 23:44
Esteban Ocon has returned to one of the karting tracks in Normandy that he raced at as a child.
The French Formula 1 driver shared a video with old home-movie-style footage of him racing at the track as a young boy, as well as footage of him returning with his father now.
"Karting, my first love," the Haas driver wrote on Instagram.
"The winter holidays are always a special time to ...
28 December 2025 23:18
Formula 1 president and CEO Stefano Domenicali has pushed against the idea of a sequel to the hugely successful F1 movie, insisting that it is important to allow the first to breathe before a second is released.
Speaking to Sky Sports F1 following the end of the 2025 season, Domenicali reflected on what has been another successful year for the championship. Not only has it seen huge success ...
28 December 2025 23:18
Guenther Steiner branded Isack Hadjar 'rookie of the year' after he finished 12th in the drivers' standings with 51 points, ahead of his Racing Bulls team-mate Liam Lawson in 14th with 38 points.
The French-Algerian driver came back strongly after a disappointing start to his season when he crashed during the formation lap of the Australian Grand Prix. He went on to score his first grand prix ...
28 December 2025 22:44
David Croft has confirmed that his familiar voice will continue in Formula 1 for many years to come, insisting that he and the championship are "only just getting going".
Known by his friends and fans as "Crofty", the Sky Sports F1 commentator has reflected on his journey in the championship after he struggled during his first year. Talking with the Mirror, he explained that the way he joined ...
28 December 2025 17:00
Oliver Bearman entered Formula 1 with a bang when he was thrown in at the deep end, deputising for Carlos Sainz at Ferrari in the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Coming at a tricky circuit in the highest-profile team on the grid, then 18-year-old Bearman showed he had the steel to match his talent by taking seventh on his unexpected debut.
Bearman's maiden full-time campaign for Haas has gone on ...
28 December 2025 15:30
After a stint with Honda that delivered four drivers’ titles and two constructors’ championships, Red Bull will compete with its in-house power unit in 2026, in partnership with Ford.
Although Ford Performance director Mark Rushbrook acknowledges that the project – as Toto Wolff put it in Zandvoort – “has Mount Everest to climb”, he believes the preparations in Milton Keynes have ...
28 December 2025 12:30
Carlos Sainz rounded out his 2024 Formula 1 campaign at Ferrari with one final podium for the Scuderia, which dropped him for the new season in favour of seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. That, the Spaniard thought, would be his final podium for some time as he moved to Williams, who finished ninth last year.
Ahead of his debut with the Grove outfit, Sainz warned fans that 'you're not ...
28 December 2025 11:13
Every year, Formula 1 is packed with surprises and great storylines as 20 of the world’s best drivers battle for supremacy and the chance to lift the F1 World Drivers' Championship Trophy. But it wasn’t all good news over 2025, and the season had its fair share of heartbreak as well.
From Lewis Hamilton’s collision with a groundhog in Canada to Lando Norris’ retirement in Zandvoort that ...
28 December 2025 10:15
Andrea Kimi Antonelli decided to go undercover at a Milton Keynes go-kart track at the start of the Formula 1 winter break.
The Italian driver, who finished his rookie season for Mercedes in seventh in the drivers' championship with 150 points, chose the name Henry Shovlin as his alias as he arrived at the Daytona Milton Keynes track. While he didn't win the main race due to picking up two ...
28 December 2025 10:10
A single costume fitting with Brad Pitt proved to be one of the most consequential creative moments within the making of the F1 movie, as it not only decided on the aesthetic of Pitt's character, but also of the whole production.
Julian Day, the movie's costume designer, was confronted with quite the challenge: to create a team that not only looked authentic, but one that also looked ...
28 December 2025 10:06
Williams Formula 1 drivers Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon have reminisced about their favourite off-track memory of the 2025 season, when they raced kit cars around Interlagos for the Brazilian Grand Prix drivers' parade.
The drivers had branded kit cars with one driver per team and a pickup-style seat across the back for the passenger. As Sainz and Albon walked to the grid and clocked that there ...
28 December 2025 01:18
Michael Schumacher kept his cards close to his chest, but former Top Gear producer Andy Wilman has remembered one exception where the driver discussed the collision with Jacques Villeneuve that decided the 1997 Formula 1 title.
Speaking on the High Performance podcast, Wilman reflected on an interview between the seven-time champion and Jeremy Clarkson that came about as part of a project ...
28 December 2025 01:03
Guenther Steiner has argued that four-time Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen is unlikely to see a similar fate to former Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel in 2026.
Verstappen claimed four consecutive titles at Red Bull from 2021 until 2024, following in Vettel's footsteps, who secured four consecutive championships with the Milton Keynes outfit from 2010 until 2013. But after the German driver ...
28 December 2025 00:45
The McLaren Formula 1 team's 2026 car has been sold at auction for $11.4million, despite not having raced yet.
This sale places the car among some of the most expensive F1 machinery ever to change hands publicly. And surprisingly, this came before the Woking team has even been able to prove its performance next year. While auction prices for historic cars have reached eight figures before ...
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