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McLaren in pole position but F1 2025 promises much

FORMULA 1

TWO-STOP MINIMUM FOR MONACO

FIA chief eyes V10 return

Boos mar F1 launch

McLAREN TIES DOWN ITS AERO WIZARD

ZHOU BACK IN FOLD AS FERRARI RESERVE

ANDRETTI SAYS TEAM WILL BE READY FOR 2026

CONGO CHIEFS WARN F1 ON RWANDA PLAN

ADIDAS DEAL TO BOOST MERCEDES

INSIDER • There are real signs that F1 2025 will be a classic, argues Ben Hunt

INSIDER • Don’t patronise rookies, just accept that they’re good, says Oleg Karpov

INSIDER • F1 cars’ proneness to porpoising is explained by Pat Symonds

All the cars • Ten new F1 cars took their bow for pre-season testing in Bahrain. Here’s a snapshot of the 2025 field before the campaign begins

McLaren looks strong in a tale of the unexpected • A Williams set the fastest time in pre-season testing amid a series of bizarre events in Bahrain, but a crunching of the data suggests that the team from Woking starts 2025 as favourite

The tech contests at the end of an era • While design convergence is the name of the game, there’s still scope for innovation in the final season of F1’s current ruleset

CARLOS SAINZ

Hamilton joins Leclerc’s red army • Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc would be Formula 1’s most tantalising driver match-up even if they weren’t partnered at Ferrari, a team that comes freighted with its own historic expectations and internal politics…

Team by team • Autosport runs the rule over the teams and drivers of F1 2025

McLAREN • The Woking squad really got into its stride during 2024. Can it now use the experience to go one step further and fight for both championships this season?

FERRARI • Management stability, better strategy and the experience of a seven-time world champion. F1’s most famous team is surely getting closer to ending its title wait…

RED BULL • Do the troubles of 2024 merely constitute a brief wobble for the ground-effect pacesetter, or the beginning of a longer-term Red Bull downturn that will frustrate Verstappen?

MERCEDES • Mercedes enters its first campaign without Lewis Hamilton since the Briton joined in 2013, but it does have two rising stars as the team attempts to get back to the front

ASTON MARTIN • Aston Martin’s big news last year was luring Adrian Newey away from Red Bull, but this season could be a quiet one ahead of a stronger push for F1’s new era in 2026

ALPINE • Have the tumultuous times at Alpine finally come to an end? The early signs are that the team will start this year in a better place than it did in 2024

HAAS • Haas probably should have finished sixth in last year’s constructors’ championship, and the American squad has made changes to see if it can do just that in 2025

RACING BULLS • Is it Toro Rosso? Is it AlphaTauri? No, it’s now Racing Bulls – and there are other changes behind the scenes that could impact the team’s 2025 campaign

WILLIAMS • Plenty of new recruits – and not just the obvious one in the cockpit – indicate the famous British team has a new sense of belief and direction

SAUBER • With one more year to go before morphing into Audi, Sauber has a lot of work to do to get itself off the back of the grid after an almost point-less effort in 2024

All the races

ALFA ROMEO 159 VS FERRARI 375 • In 1938, Alfa Romeo’s ‘voiturette’ grand prix racer in effect cost Enzo Ferrari his job. Over a decade later, after he’d founded his own...