The king is dead, long live the king.
With the 2024 season done and dusted and lots of chatter now about drivers and how they will perform for the 2025 season, thought it would be no harm to start a 2025 season thread.
Go!
4 teams with 7 or 8 drivers capable of winning races. Should be very interesting.
Dates.
So it was actually true about the drivers leaving seats empty beside Max for Russell at the drivers dinner
Isack Hadjar is the chosen last one.
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/13276573/isack-hadjar-red-bull-junior-joins-racing-bulls-as-f1-2025-grid-line-up-completed-for-new-season
The 2025 grid is now complete
Ferrari the strongest lineup with Bortoleto the most promising and underrated rookie. He won F2 in first season what brings him to good company of Piastri, Leclerc (Norris runner up), Russell.
Great to see young drivers getting an opportunity, I think Hulk and Bortoleto will be in for a long year in that Sauber. Williams is an interesting one, they've a great line up and hopefully they've a good car too
I'm hoping Alpine will have a stronger season.
Predications with no real information:
Agreed with almost everything, not sure if Hadjar will last the full season and Lawson can keep his Red Bull seat till the end of the season.
It's crazy that Alonso now races against 7 drivers that weren't born when he made his debut
Should be an exciting year. Great to see so many new young drivers in F1.
Hulk is a good yardstick for him. Solid if unspectacular driver. I'd expect a talented rookie to be matching him by the end of the season.
Its all about talent now given how much is locked in before 2026 regs.
Who has the most adaptable car to suit the difference in circuits and which driver lineup can adjust to suit the car setup.
Can see Max and Red Bull being a bit better after getting on top of the car issues towards the end of last year.
Piastri should be stronger, he struggled with tyre life at points in 24. Him and Norris are quite even so I’d expect a bit more fireworks.
Leclerc will beat Hamilton, although Hamilton will do better at Ferrari over Merc of the last 3 years.
Russell will still be the world champion of being a moanbag.
Yes, it will be an exciting year with these rookies and also there would be a very close compeittion among the top teams.
Family decided to invest in an F1 team this year.
This is a fascinating contemporary video about Giles Villeneuve:
Got the exact same one for Christmas too. The equivalent of the 2024 Ferrari is releasing at the start of march which I’m eyeing up.
Happy New Year all!
Happy new year all, best wishes for 2025
It's race year...
Happy New Year to all here.
The GOAT is 56 today,
https://www.threads.net/@f1/post/DEXN4qpNcUe?xmt=AQGzGjb_cqoxwGpKjQh9umVmenfyD3VpBRLELlXOMqz2YA
I think these two will do great together. What's your opinion?
Don't know enough about him to have an opinion. But it's going to be a big change for both of them, especially Hamilton who's had the same engineer (Bono) for 12 years.
The Race had 8 reporters rank the 2025 driver pairings with the same scoring system as F1.
Seems to be a clear 1 & 2 whereas 3-5 are tight. Doesn’t look like there’s a lot of faith in Lawson.
Crazy how the Merc's team has gotten weaker yet they rate them stronger. It seems they are rating potential over experience.
Granted Lawson doesn't have much experience but Kimi has effectively none, sure Kimi might be better, but they are saying the difference between Kimi and Lawson is greater than the difference between a four time world champion and someone who binned it behind a safety car.
The logic they used to down play Hadjar and Bortoletto doesn't seem to apply to Antonelli and Bearman.
I wonder what the common factor is for the latter two…
I think they had Mercedes as number 1 last year, so they are dropping them.
For me I reckon I'd go with:
Formula 1 has announced that the luxury watch brand TAG Heuer will be Formula 1's official timekeeper once again in F1 2025. F1 is embarking on a 10-year partnership with LVMH, which boasts TAG Heuer as part of its portfolio.
