Why Norris can't run #1 on his car in test after all
Lando Norris is already back in Formula 1 action in the post-season test in Abu Dhabi but has to wait before he can run with #1 on his car as the new world champion.Norris clinched his first F1 title on Sunday, beating Max Verstappen to the crown by just two points, and said afterwards he intended to switch from the #4 he has run through his career so far to the #1.He also hoped it would be on the...
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Lando Norris is already back in Formula 1 action in the post-season test in Abu Dhabi but has to wait before he can run with #1 on his car as the new world champion.Norris clinched his first F1 title on Sunday, beating Max Verstappen to the crown by just two points, and said afterwards he intended to switch from the #4 he has run through his career so far to the #1.He also hoped it would be on the...
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Why Norris can't use #1 just yet
Lando Norris is already back in Formula 1 action in the post-season test in Abu Dhabi but has to wait before he can run with #1 on his car as the n...
Prototypes simulating the kind of the movable front wing system that will be used in Formula 1 next season are appearing at the post-season test in Abu Dhabi.Next year the all-new 2026 cars will feature active aerodynamics on both the front and rear wings to reduce drag on the straights, which is being approximated on the 'mule cars' in Tuesday's test by only using wing levels that were raced at t...
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Formula 1's 'mule car' test in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday will impose speed limits on the straights and four DRS zones to further simulate the performance of the 2026 cars.All 10 current teams will participate in the Pirelli tyre test portion of the traditional post-season day of running at the Yas Marina circuit.It is a chance for them to sample the majority of the compounds that Pirelli has decided to...
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The final weekend of the 2025 Formula 1 season taught us plenty, both about the three title protagonists and those who went under the radar.Here's everything we learned from the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend. Norris proved himself wrongNew F1 champion Lando Norris went into remarkable depth during multiple media engagements after sealing the title.But arguably the most telling revelation was that h...
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So much of the attention during Formula 1’s title-decider was understandably on its three championship protagonists - but there were plenty of other things happening behind them.For the other 17 drivers, the title battle was irrelevant to them and the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was simply a chance to end the season on a high.But the TV broadcast overlooked many important moments in the race in favour of...
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For a company as big and well known as PepsiCo, its return to Formula 1 team sponsorship after 34 years away has inevitably prompted some intrigue about why now?After all, PepsiCo already had its foot in the door of grand prix racing through a global partnership with F1 that involved three of its core brands: Gatorade, Sting and Doritos.But there is good reason as to why it has committed to a majo...
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The 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix crowned a new Formula 1 world champion - but how high does Lando Norris climb in the weekend's rankings?Here’s Edd Straw’s best-to-worst ranking of all 20 drivers’ performances. Agree or disagree? Leave questions or comments for him on this post in The Race Members’ Club and he’ll reply in his Q&A video later this week.How do the rankings work? The 20 drivers will be ...
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The outpouring of relief and pride - and the release of tension - in Lando Norris's incredibly raw reaction to becoming Formula 1 world champion laid bare his gruelling process of turning self-described embarrassment and doubt into a career-changing accomplishment.Two Norris journeys have collided to bring him to celebrate his maiden title.There is the one that has consumed his and his family's li...
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Oscar Piastri’s spectacular lap one pass around the outside of Lando Norris at Turn 9 of Formula 1’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix showed that he wasn't going to down without a fight.The manoeuvre earned plenty of fanfare for the way it was delivered with inch-perfect precision during a campaign where Piastri and Norris have quite rarely been involved in such wheel-to-wheel passes.But things are not always...
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Lando Norris, world champion. It slotted into place in the season finale in a way no one could have any real complaints about. Max Verstappen won his eighth race of 2025 (more than anyone else) to cap a truly brilliant seasonal performance, but Norris did all he needed to do in finishing a conservative third. The way McLaren went about winning one of its drivers a title for the first time in 17 ye...
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Max Verstappen did not play the disruptive role many expected him to in Formula 1's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix title decider, where he came up two points short of a fifth-successive world championship.Expecting Verstappen to make McLaren's life harder on Sunday was not about assuming he would do anything nefarious.It would have been totally legitimate to back the field up, as Lewis Hamilton did the same...
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Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko is to hold talks this winter with the Formula 1 team to decide whether or not he continues in his role next season, amid growing indications he could be heading for retirement.The veteran has been a part of Red Bull’s operation ever since it entered F1 in 2005, and he played a major role in the title successes that it achieved with Sebastian Vettel and Max ...
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Lando Norris is the 2025 Formula 1 world champion - so you can guess where he is in our Abu Dhabi Grand Prix winners and losers selection.But here's our judgement on everyone else as well.Winner - Lando Norris (3rd but world champion)This was a no-frills drive to the title. But there's no way Norris will care about that.He had earned the right to that kind of drive from the lead he'd built up from...
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Max Verstappen is happier after his 2025 season than when he won the Formula 1 title last year – but one particular topic sparked an unexpectedly sharp and angry response from the four-time world champion.Verstappen missed out on a fifth straight championship despite winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, as Lando Norris finished third to clinch his maiden title by just two points.Despite a difficult s...
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As soon as the tyre choices for the 2025 Formula 1 title deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix flashed up, it looked like Red Bull had given Yuki Tsunoda the opportunity to replicate the critical help Sergio Perez gave Max Verstappen in the 2021 F1 finale.That’s exactly how it played out - except whereas Perez earned “legend” status, in Verstappen’s own words, for Red Bull, Tsunoda just got himself a pena...
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In his darkest moments, Lando Norris must have feared the 2025 Formula 1 world championship was beyond him.That’s an inevitable consequence of the zero-sum game that is elite sport, where it feels like it’s either total success or abject failure and no middle ground. Intellectually, Norris will always have understood there will be other years and new opportunities, but emotionally the feeling will...
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Max Verstappen dominated the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix but third place behind McLaren team-mate and third title contender Oscar Piastri was enough to give Lando Norris the 2025 Formula 1 world championship title.Results1 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)2 Oscar Piastri (McLaren) +12.594s3 Lando Norris (McLaren) +16.572s4 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) +23.279s5 George Russell (Mercedes) +48.563s6 Fernando Alonso (A...
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Lando Norris sealed his first Formula 1 drivers' title with a third-place finish in the 2025 season finale in Abu Dhabi.The 26-year-old has become champion in his seventh season on the grid, and is the first McLaren driver to win the title since Lewis Hamilton in 2008.Red Bull driver Max Verstappen took a dominant win out front, his eighth of the season (which is most in the field), but never atte...
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Formula 1's latest three-car title decider was a fair bit less dramatic than its famous 2007 counterpart - or the four-car 2010 showdown - but it couldn't help but be tense, even if points leader Lando Norris ultimately drove the exact race he needed to to ensure triumph.But was it a good finale, and how does Norris's title-clinching campaign compare now that it's over and his mission has been acc...
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Lando Norris avoided a penalty that could have cost him the Formula 1 title for a questionable overtake on Yuki Tsunoda during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.Norris was passed by McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri on the opening lap of the season finale but survived early pressure from Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc to hold third place, which would guarantee him the title even with nearest championship riv...
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