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.
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Does ferrari own the alfa romea team?
They do yes. Infact Fiat, who own Ferrari, are owned themselves by the same company who own Alfa.
There is no Alfa Romeo team in F1. Alfa were essentially a title sponsor of the Sauber team from 2019 to 2023. That team is now the Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber (terrible name), who are themselves (primarily I think) owned by Audi, and will become the Audi F1 team from 2026.
And yes, Ollie Bearman drove 3 times in 2024. Once for Ferrari in Saudi (finished 7th) and twice for Haas in Baku (10th) and Sao Paulo (12th). As a result, he finished 18th in the championship, finishing ahead of Colapinto, Zhou, Lawson, Bottas, Sargent and Doohan. Only Doohan started less races than him.
when does pre-season testing begin being aired?
26th - 28th Feb. Sky covering it…
A couple bits of Alex Dunne news, firstly he will be taking part in the Formula E Rookie practice session for McLaren over the Valentine's weekend in Jeddah.
Secondly he's confirmed to be racing for Rodin Motorsport in Formula 2 for this season.
In unrelated news Ocon has made his acting debut in some netflix film called Honeymoon Crashers
They should have gotten Logan Sargeant. He'd crash anything for
You are wrong about this. Fiat no longer own Ferrari but the son of Enzo Ferrari does have shares in Ferrari. Ferrari is mostly owned by the public now. It was put on the stockmarket in 2016. Alfa Romeo are not owned by Ferrari either. They are owned by the Stellantis group.
Happy to be corrected. I always thought they were… on both counts mentioned! Thanks!
You were welcome. Yes before 2016 Fiat owned both Ferrari and Alfa Romeo. But in 2016 they flouted Ferrari to the markets.
Adidas aren't exactly being subtle about their Mercedes Benz kit.
Having said that, it's very much the same as last year's stuff just with added 3 white stripes.
Hard to go wrong with the black base though. And the white shirts the team members wear look the same too.
Just looking at the sky sports f1 youtube feed. In the last 2 weeks they have had 9 videos related to Lewis Hamilton, 2 about the Mercedes team (1 of which was also about Lewis) and 1 generic "what did drivers get up to over winter".
People complain about the British bias in F1 while others say there isn't one. Sky are the global broadcaster for an awful lot of the english speaking countries and this is what they are prioritising. What a dose.
The Race are pretty bad lately, as much as it is great to have Jon Noble there also, his bias towards Hamilton is quite open.
Is This just the Sky F1 English site? Does Sky F1 Deutschland have different content?
I don't speak German, so haven't checked.
I tend to get their content primarily from the podcast feed rather than YouTube for the race, and they've been pretty broad in their coverage in the lead up. I think they had 1 pod for Hamilton's first day alright.
If it's Sky F1 English, then what do you actually expect? A dispassionate review of all teams regardless how much interest the UK audience has in them? Or do you expect them to focus on the British interests? And presumably other Sky F1 language services are focusing on the things their audience wall watch.
Like, Will you get thick if you find out Sky F1 Italia focus a lot on Ferrari?
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https://sport.sky.it/formula-1
Sky cover UK, Ireland. They provide the commentary in USA. And in Australia. I assume other English language territories too.
There are 6 f1 teams based in UK (Aston, Alpine, Mercedes, Williams, McLaren, red bull) of which 3 are registered British (Aston, Williams and McLaren). There are 4 British drivers too, plus Alex Albon who was born and grew up there. Just a bit of consistency would be nice. And recognition that they cover more than just the UK.
Yeah they could split it a third Irish F1 news, a third US and a third UK...
I trust them to do their job which is to get clicks and sell advertising space. They're not supposed to be an impartial F1 news service. What gave you the impression they were?
They have done about 4 videos about Hamilton on the YouTube Channel so far.
I mostly only watch the races and don't bother with all the other "analysis" but the odd time I rewatch stuff I don't really mind him. Not a fan either but don't mind him.
Hopefully. Despite the le mans wins, Ferrari are under performing in WEC.
Eight days to the launch event.
For any PC gaming enthusiasts, just a heads up. Epic Games are giving away F1 Manager 2024 from this coming thursday afternoon until the following thursday afternoon.
F1 have confirmed that this launch event thing next week will be on their YouTube channel:
WIlliams have a few title partner.
Atlassian Williams racing
No, I never heard of them either. They're some sort of software company.
They make Jira and Trello which would be fairly well known software products.
