The one 2025 formula season has all the clashes of a celebration of 24 breeds with a white round to mark 75 years since the inaugural championship of seven races in 1950. The Verstappen Max of Red Bull seems to have done the work to seal a fifth consecutive title with Lando Norris ready to bring down the Dutchman of his pole. The passage of Hamilton from Mercedes to Ferrari is only one of the many intriguing indular intrigues of a season which begins in Australia this Sunday with six recruits adorning the grid. Let’s take a look at five discussion points before the lights go out to Melbourne.
Fifth title for Verstappen?
Seventy-five years after Giuseppe Farina won the first F1 world championship at the wheel of an Alfa Romeo Max Verstappen launched in the 2025 season in pursuit of a fifth successive title, a feat only achieved before, by Michael Schumacher. If he succeeds, he will cement the place of Dutch as a Titan of Sport. He sucked seven of the first 10 races in his raid Red Bull last year, before a race without a 10 -hour victory while McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari ran Riot. But Verstappen had the last word, retaliated to win in Brazil and in phase the title four in Las Vegas with two races to lose. McLaren has prevented the manufacturers’ championship far from Red Bull to seal their long road to the F1 summit. The difficult task against Verstappen is underlined by the bets, which does it as the only second favorite behind Norris (which finished 2024 63 points behind) for the crown 2025, with the duo Ferrari Charles Leclerc and Hamilton leading the rest of the peloton.
Class of 2025 recruits
An Italian adolescent who only successfully completed his driving exam is among the recruit consumption of the six 2025 season. Kimi Antonelli is an exciting 18 -year -old who uses the nickname of his uncle who was a fan of the last world champion in Ferrari, Finn Kimi Raikkonen, takes the seat of Lewis Hamilton alongside George Russell in Mercedes. “I really want to make my own story,” insists that the winner of Formula 2 of last year, brushing the suggestions, he is the “replacement” of the world champion seven times at the Arrows Silver. Kiwi Liam Lawson, a “veteran” of 11 Grand Prix, made his full -fledged debut as a new Verstappen winger in Red Bull. The Pilot of the British Academy of Ferrari, Ollie Bearman, was thrown into the F1 Deep End when he was called upon last-minute replacement for appendicitis-Victim Carlos Sainz at the Saudi Grand Prix last year, becoming the youngest driver to compete for Scuderia. He seized his luck, holding Hamilton and Norris to finish seventh. He joined Haas propelled by Ferrari. Brazil is present on the grid for the first time in five years in the champion F2 Gabriel Bortoleto in Sauber. Aussie Jack Doohan even hopes to take advantage of a small slice of his father Mick’s success on two wheels in MotoGP while he obtained his diploma in Reserve Driver to become a teammate of Pierre Gasly in Alpine. The last but not the least is Isack Hadjar of RB, the 20 -year -old French who brought Bortoleto for the title F2.
FIA in drivers’ reticlations
In the unpredictable volatile bubble with high octane which is F1, one thing seems to be ensured in 2025: renewed tension between the director organ and the drivers. Particularly above the FIA crack against the law. Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc fell in fault with the rules in 2024 for turning the air blue during press conferences. The directives were reinforced in January, triggering an indignant response from drivers, who made a blow to the president of the FIA, Mohammed Ben Sulayem. “We urge the president of the FIA to also consider his tone and his own tone when they spoke to our members of members, or even about them, whether in a public or other forum”, they wrote, adding: “Our members are adults. They do not need instructions via the media, on questions as trivial as the port of jewelry or sub-plates”.
From Australia to Abu Dhabi
Australia welcomes the first 24 races next weekend with Bahrain moved in April while Ramadan takes place throughout March. The six sprints of 2025 are in Shanghai, Miami, Belgium, Austin, Sao Paulo and Qatar. FIA trying to put the jewelry in the calendar – Monaco – where the overtaking is almost impossible, imposing a compulsory two -pit stop strategy. With the traditional three -week summer break in August, the F1 circus presents itself in the Abu Dhabi desert for its final program on December 7. “2025 will be a special year when we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the FIA Formula One Championship, and it is this legality and the experience that allows us to deliver such a strong calendar,” said the CEO of F1 Stefano Domemeli.
Test time
Even celebrated by Codebreaker WW2 Alan Turing would have a difficult job to decipher the time of three days of pre-season test in Bahrain last month. With unknown fuel loads and team configurations are held under Wraps, it was difficult, if not impossible to locate the winners and losers. The Mercedes de Russell was at the top of the battery on the last day, with Williams de Sainz at the head of the Times in the middle of the day and McLaren of Norris winning the honors of the first day. Ferrari was booming, and Verstappen was satisfied with his last day. One thing seems certain – most of the teams seem close, which prompted McLaren CEO, Zak Brown, to predict: “I can see that it is super competitive. Last year, four teams won several races, this year, I could see that it is even more. I am more excited.”
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