F1 2025 season: Full calendar, race schedule, driver line-ups, rule adjustments, tips on how to watch, what’s new

Every little thing that you must find out about Formulation 1 in 2025 as a brand new season begins this week, stay on Sky Sports activities F1.

Who’s the defending F1 champion?

Max Verstappen is the reigning F1 world champion and is in search of a fifth consecutive drivers’ title, a feat solely completed by Michael Schumacher.

McLaren gained final 12 months’s Constructors’ Championship for the primary time since 1998 however Lando Norris shall be hoping so as to add drivers’ glory in 2025, after ending runner-up to Verstappen final time round.

F1 2025 line-up

Solely McLaren and Aston Martin have retained the identical driver pairing, with 10 adjustments in comparison with the grid 12 months in the past.

Lewis Hamilton‘s transfer to Ferrari is the largest F1 switch of all time as he takes over from Carlos Sainz, who has joined Williams.

Teenager Kimi Antonelli has changed Hamilton at Mercedes and Liam Lawson was confirmed as Verstappen’s new team-mate after Sergio Perez misplaced his seat.

Britain’s Oliver Bearman will make his full-time season F1 debut at Haas alongside Esteban Ocon, who left Alpine earlier than final season’s closing occasion in Abu Dhabi. Australian Jack Doohan stepped in for Ocon, having already been confirmed as an Alpine driver for 2025.

Final 12 months’s F2 runner-up Isack Hadjar joins the newly-named Racing Bulls alongside Yuki Tsunoda, with Nico Hulkenberg and F2 champion Gabriel Bortoleto making up Sauber’s brand-new driver pairing.

F1 key group personnel adjustments

Legendary F1 designer Adrian Newey left Purple Bull and joined Aston Martin in early March in a transfer which could possibly be simply as vital as Hamilton becoming a member of Ferrari.

Though Aston Martin haven’t modified their driver line-up, former Mercedes engine guru Andy Cowell has been appointed as group principal with Mike Krack demoted to chief trackside officer.

Purple Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley will change into Sauber group principal from April, forward of the outfit being taken over by Audi in 2026.

Laura Mueller will make historical past as the primary feminine race engineer in F1 when she turns into the voice in Ocon’s ear at Haas.

F1 2025 calendar

Australia will host the season-opener for the primary time since 2019 on March 14-16 as a part of a rejigged 24-race calendar, which doesn’t function any new occasions.

Bahrain has hosted the opening race for the final 4 years, however the timing of Ramadan means the Sakhir race, together with the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, has been pushed again to April.

Different minor adjustments see the Spanish Grand Prix moved to the weekend after Monaco, whereas the Hungarian Grand Prix will host the ultimate occasion earlier than the summer time break.

In contrast to final 12 months, there isn’t any four-week hole following the Singapore Grand Prix because the F1 schedule has been extra evenly spaced out within the second half of the season, all the best way to the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on December 5-7.

F1 Dash weekends in 2025

China, Miami, Belgium, Austin, Brazil and Qatar have been chosen because the occasions that can stage the choice format, which includes a shortened 100km race on Saturdays.

The Austrian Grand Prix, which has held a Dash occasion since 2022, has been dropped for Belgium subsequent 12 months.

There are set to be no adjustments to the Dash format, which has only one apply session adopted by Dash Qualifying on Friday afternoon, the Dash on Saturday morning, with Qualifying as traditional on Saturday afternoon and the Grand Prix on Sunday.

F1 rule adjustments for 2025

Little or no has modified for this 12 months with the largest change being the elimination of the additional level for quickest lap.

The purpose for quickest lap – which was awarded if the driving force holding it additionally completed within the prime 10 – typically added additional drama on the entrance as drivers would pit late on for brand new tyres late if there was a giant hole to the automotive behind.

Elsewhere, the minimal driver weight allowance has been elevated from 80kg to 82kg and a driver cooling equipment has been launched, whereas the necessities for inexperienced driver working have additionally been modified, with groups now needing to discipline a younger driver of their two automobiles a minimum of 4 occasions through the season, in comparison with two final 12 months.

The technical rules stay the identical, so most groups could have an evolution in automotive design from 2024, with half a watch on 2026 when the automobiles and engines will change utterly. The groups will progressively enhance their efforts as regards to 2026 automotive initiatives because the season goes on.

Flexi-wing debate

It could not be an F1 season if a technical debate didn’t flare up. Already, there was discuss in regards to the FIA’s choice to introduce new load exams for each entrance and rear wings to restrict how a lot the components can flex.

The static deflection exams that monitor rear wings on the automobiles shall be expanded from the primary race in Australia from March 14-16, earlier than extra front-wing exams are launched on the ninth spherical in Spain at first of June.

McLaren had been extensively thought of to have efficiently exploited the leniency of the foundations in regard to wing flexing final 12 months, as Norris and Oscar Piastri guided the group to a primary constructors’ title since 1998.

In pre-season testing, some groups had been alleged to be pushing the bounds on the rear wing, with discuss of a ‘mini DRS’ which might support straight-line velocity. This shall be one to control.

Find out how to watch F1 in 2025 on Sky Sports activities

Sky Sports activities F1 stays the house of F1 within the UK for 2025, with each session stay, plus protection of F2, F3 and F1 Academy.

On the transfer? Not close to a TV? Not in control of the distant? If you’re a Sky Sports activities subscriber, you may stream ALL the Sky Sports activities channels straight out of your machine on the Sky Sports activities app – at no additional price! That features EVERY F1 Grand Prix.

Discover and watch the race

1. Obtain or Open the Sky Sports activities app
2. Head to the ‘Watch‘ part
3. Faucet the Sky Sports activities F1 channel
4. Sign up together with your Sky iD (*you may solely want to do that as soon as)

*Sky iD assist: Find out how to discover or create your Sky iD

F1 followers may even be capable of choose an onboard stay stream of any of the 20 drivers on the Sky Sports activities app – full with group radio messages – for each race, Dash, qualifying and apply session this season.

Sky clients with a Sky Sports activities F1 subscription simply have to obtain the Sky Sports activities app and log in to experience with Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, any driver of their selection.

In case you desire to leap onboard by your TV display, the service is offered by Sky Q and Sky Glass.

Watch all 24 race weekends from the 2025 Formulation 1 season stay on Sky Sports activities F1, beginning with the Australian GP on March 14-16. Stream Sky Sports activities with NOW – No contract, cancel anytime