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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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

Formula 1 star Fernando Alonso has hailed Marc Marquez after his countryman won the 2025 MotoGP title, saying only a few people in sport can achieve what he did.
Marquez dominated the championship this year after stepping up to a factory Ducati seat, completing an incredible comeback from the 2020 Jerez accident that left him with a career-altering shoulder injury.
Like Alonso, Marquez ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

Gabriel Bortoleto reflects on his rookie season in Formula 1 with Lawrence Barretto, as well as the exciting future with Audi.

F1.com reflects back on the milestone moments of an epic fight for the World Championship in 2025.

At the start of 2025 much was expected of Ferrari. Seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton had been signed, and the talk was of an expected title bid after the Scuderia pushed McLaren all the way for the 2024 Teams’ Championship. However, that didn’t materialise. Instead, Ferrari dropped to fourth in the standings, failed to claim a Grand Prix victory and Hamilton was unable to record a podium finish for the first time in his illustrious F1 career. With the team’s focus switching to 2026 earlier than expected, here’s Ferrari’s end of year report…

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading