F1 2025: Are Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc, George Russell everyone in Hunt’s titles? | F1 news
“It should be one of the biggest seasons in Formula 1.”
This was a painful expectation that Martin Brundle expressed during the recent Sky Sports News An interview in the early examination of the 2025 season that is already shining from promises and anticipation, even before one of the 10 new new cars to launch one of 10 new cars will be launched.
Counting to pre -season testing in Bahrein at the end of February and then the first race in Australia on March 16, finally really starts to increase over the next week, and Williams took over the wraps of its latest car – although UA one -off Livey Friday before the first Tuesday, the original event All-team and Driver in London O2 provide the central part of the launch season.
Max Verstappen will start with the aim of becoming only another driver after Michael Schumacher won the driver’s title for five years in a row, but the ruling champion Red Bull may face his hardest search for the crown from victory in the first 2021 …
What did the second half of the 2024 season tell us
So, what the prospects for a wide open, a true fight with a multiple driver, given the same driver, won the last four world titles, two with absolute dominance and the last with the comfort of two races that have been spared.
Well, for the exhibition A, we give you the driver’s locations from the points from the other half Last season.
While the impressive Verstappen eventually completed a comfortable 63 point away from the runner-up Land Norris on the ladder despite the re-passing of Red Bull’s reign as a constructor champion, most of the legs work towards the fourth Netherlands in a consecutive title in the first campaign of Pole.
Verstappen won seven of the first 10 races and was already a dominant 84 points ahead of Norris, and more than 100 pure of everyone else, by the time the season of 24 races reached its halfway after the British Grand Prix in July, where it is finished second to Lewis Hamilton.
The next 12 races, however, painted a completely different picture by the end of the campaign in Abu Dabi in December.
Strong Naps in Safe 12 raids in the leg 2024 (Hungarian-Abu Dhabi)
- 1. Charles Leclerc – 206 points – 2 wins
- 2. Lando Norris – 203 points – 3 wins
- 3. Max Verstappen – 182 points – 2 wins
- 4. Oscar Piastra – 168 points – 2 wins
- 5. Carlos Sainz – 144 points – 1 win
- 6. George Russell – 134 points – 1 win
- 7. Lewis Hamilton – 113 points – 1 win
Since he was almost unsurpassed for most of the past two years in his Red Bull, Verstappen won only twice as much as he was only the third driver with the highest points from the Hungarian Doctor of the General Practice onwards
Instead, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc scored a hit in the last dozen rounds, and Norris is close to a second.
Leclerc scored 206 points, only three more than Norris, but 24 more than Verstappen. All in all, the final victories of the race were divided between the top seven drivers, and no one claimed more than Norris’s three.
Furthermore, if the points reset from that summer race of Budapest, then four drivers – Leclerc, Norris, Verstappen and Oscar Piastra in the second McLaren – entered the finals of Abu Dabi with a hit on the title.
Of course, the points of the season are never reset in half a season, so this is a purely illustrative example of the increasing competitiveness of the F1 – but it still bothers. The narrative that headed to a new campaign, of course, was further encouraged by mass changes to 10 GID 10 lines, with Hamilton’s move to join Leclerc at Ferrari The Head-up.
Teenage andre Kimi Antonelli joins Russell in the new Mercedes’ look, and Liam Lawson has promoted to a place next to Verstappen after Sergio Perez finally lost the Red Bull drive.
“We’ll see if Red Bull has recovered his car. It’s a key thing,” Brundle suggested on one of the key early questions that would appear in preseason testing.
“If Red Bull recovered his car and Verstappen in shape, he will still be a man who will win the title because Piastra could take off the points from Norris and Hamilton, and Leclerc could take off the points.”
A consequence of static regulations and the Law on Reduction of Contribution
The next season indicates the fourth – and the final campaign of the current era of regulation.
Next year, the F1 Technical Ordinance turned upside down for 2026. In a way that was probably never seen before the concomitant changes in and in chassis and engine regulations.
Before that, however, history tends to show that deeper in the Era of Static Regulation F1 approaches races and a more competitive battle for the victories of the Station.
“The regulations are very mature, so we do not expect one team to jump forward suddenly,” Brunddle said of a likely competitive picture 2025.
“They peak in this last season that these cars can perform.”
With a slightly long -term value in the teams that have persecuted seasonal car development this time due to the lack of parts of the transfer in 2026, it should turn that if 2025 began as close as possible, this will probably remain thus through the 24 races campaign.
‘Mega’, ‘epic’ – what leading teams predict
Speaking Sky Sports At various pre -season events in recent weeks, the team chiefs in some of the leading suits have been sung from a very similar hymn list considering what to expect in the new season.
Zak Brown, McLaren: “[Lando’s] Definitely one of the favorites. I would put an Oscar there, Max. Charles there, Lewis inside, George inside.
“I think Kimi [Antonelli] They will probably win the race or two, although obviously, as a newcomer, it will be difficult to put together 24 races without being a few rookies of days. Liam [Lawson] I’m sure it will be strong and does not turn off Fernando [Alonso]… so I think it will be an epic season. “
Christian Horner, Red Bull: “I think it will be a mega year. I think McLaren had a strong year last year, but we still won more individual races than any other driver, almost twice.
“Max will be hard to win, but we don’t underestimate the opposition.”
Toto Wolff, Mercedes: “I think this year could be the same again that three, four, five teams are really close to each other’s fight – which is good news for sports – and at the same time balance development for next year. It will be quite interesting how priorities are set.”
When will we find out more about where teams are?
Three days of testing in Bahrein 26 to 28 February, as always, will begin to provide the first marks and hints at a baking order in the early season.
However, this year, even then, it will only be evidence of a car performance on the track that does not set the first Grand Prix, given that the first race of the season is not in Bahrein for the first time since 2020.
Australian Albert Park – a very different trail with Sakhir – hosts the opener on March 16, and Grand Prix Bahrain was not held until the fourth round in April.
“It should be so close and who wins, they will win a great championship,” Brundle said.
“But until we see cars on the trail, and probably until Saturday Melbourne, the first races, where low fuel, handled, fresh tires, giving him everything, to truly know the pace who just accepted it. Then it is about who he is Still fast 30, 50, 60 enters the Grand Prix.
“I think it’s very bold to write anyone or write anyone in the position of winning the championship.”
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