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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

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

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 ...Keep reading

F1 star Damson Idris has been nominated for two Black Reel Awards after his performance alongside Brad Pitt for the Formula 1 film.
The British actor has been nominated for both Outstanding Supporting Performance and Outstanding Breakthrough Performance for the 2026 Black Reel Awards, which honour the "brilliance and resilience of Black storytellers".
Prior to his role in F1, Idris starred ...Keep reading

Laurent Mekies has opened up on the “very difficult” decision to demote Yuki Tsunoda, with the Red Bull Team Principal voicing his confidence that the Japanese driver could return to the grid in the future.

The 2025 season was a good one for Williams, with the Grove-based outfit scoring two podiums courtesy of Carlos Sainz in the second half which helped them to solidify fifth place in the Teams’ Championship. Can they build on that further in 2026? Here is Williams’ end of year report…

With 2025 almost at an end, it's time to look back on some of the weird and wonderful moments of the year with our alternative awards.

Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso has been spotted driving his multi-million-dollar Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR around the streets of Monaco during the winter break. 
Footage of the Spanish driver quickly emerged on social media as he took his homologation special out in Monte Carlo, catching the attention of fans both in person and online. "This must be his most rare (and expensive) ...Keep reading

The 2025 Formula 1 season rewarded Alex Albon for the immense patience he has displayed ever since joining Williams in 2022, when it was the worst team in the championship. Even in the years which followed, the British outfit only gradually improved but Albon continued to be its beacon of light, who always maximised his machinery without putting up a fuss.
His recovery drive at the 2022 ...Keep reading

The 47th edition of the Dakar Rally will begin on 3 January and mark the start of the 2026 motorsport season.
As has been the case every year since 2020, the event will run entirely in Saudi Arabia, having moved from its former base in South America. This means the Gulf nation will be the sole host of the world’s most prestigious cross-country rally for the seventh consecutive year
But ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen has shared his verdict on the audio recordings of the 2026 Formula 1 engines, claiming they sound "crisp".
2026 will bring in a new wave of regulations to the championship, which will see power units with a 50/50 split between internal combustion engine and electric power.
Some teams, including Aston Martin with the upcoming Honda engine and Mercedes, have shared the sounds of ...Keep reading

Every year Formula 1 always delivers plenty of drama and 2025 was no different with a title fight that went down to the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Lando Norris ultimately prevailed in a three-way fight against McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri and Red Bull’s four-time world champion Max Verstappen.
But it wasn’t just about what happened at the front, as there was drama throughout ...Keep reading

MotoGP reached a historic milestone in 2025, drawing more than 3.6 million fans to races around the world to set a new all-time attendance record.
After surpassing three million spectators last year, the championship climbed to a new level of popularity in 2025, helped by an expanded 22-round calendar.
Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta gave a very positive assessment of the situation at the end of ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso is patient, that’s undeniable.
The Spanish veteran has failed to take a single grand prix victory in his last 225 entries. His second and latest Formula 1 world title was nearly two decades ago.
And yet, he’s still here. Not only is he still here, he’s still performing at a high level, at the age of 44, seemingly extracting the most out of the Aston Martin ...Keep reading