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After a heartbreaking F1 debut in Melbourne, Isack Hadjar has proven his mettle in the first half of his rookie season. Hadjar was one of the more underrated rookies entering the 2025 season, having no junior category titles to his name, but he has quickly demonstrated his pace. The rookie driver has scored a total…
After making a brief but intriguing debut as a Wild Card entry for PREMA Racing in 2024, Courtney Crone returned to the F1 Academy grid in 2025 as a full-time driver with ART Grand Prix. With backing from the Haas F1 Team, the American arrived with legitimate expectations and the spotlight firmly on her. Although…
As Formula 1 crosses the halfway mark of the 2025 season, few drivers have been as perplexing to watch as Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll. Statistically, he’s ahead of his teammate Fernando Alonso in the championship. But scratch the surface, and the story isn’t one of quiet brilliance – it’s one of stagnation. Despite years of…
In the 8th season of his Formula 1 career, one would arguably say that it’s Pierre Gasly who faced the most changes this year—all due to the unpredictable nature of the second Alpine seat. With speculations and rumours linked not just to his teammates but also at his future in Alpine, the French driver became…
Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso’s 2025 F1 season has been tough to say the least. However, the Spaniard has been on a run of consecutive points-finishes the last several races. As a well-respected and highly accomplished driver, Alonso would’ve definitely had higher expectations when it came to approaching his 22nd season in Formula 1. Having accumulated…
Carlos Sainz has endured a tricky start to his 2025 F1 season with Williams. He left Ferrari at the end of 2024, after the team chose to sign Lewis Hamilton on a multi-year deal. Since then, Sainz has only scored 13 points. That stands in sharp contrast to the 148 points he had earned by…
At the mid-season point of 2025 Liam Lawson has found himself tossed around—still on the grid, but marked by inconsistency and shrouded in uncertainty. After a 2024 season that saw a major underachievement from Sergio Perez relative to his champion teammate Max Verstappen, Liam Lawson was promoted from Racing Bulls to Red Bull. Such a…
After being passed over for the second Red Bull seat in favor of Liam Lawson, Yuki Tsunoda’s pace in 2025 seemed to highlight that the wrong decision had been made. Lawson failed to make it out of Q1 in the first two races of 2025, struggling to even get off the last row. Tsunoda, meanwhile,…
Haas’ Ollie Bearman has enjoyed a mixed rookie season in F1. While the young Briton enjoyed a string of points finishes early in the year, the struggles of Haas have seen him outside the points more often than not. Bearman: from F1 reserve driver to 2025 race driver Bearman was announced as a 2025 Haas…
One of the most hyped rookies of the 2025 F1 season, Gabriel Bortoleto has definitely been living up to expectations. In spite of not managing to achieve a flashy result like his more experienced teammate Nico Hülkenberg, the Brazilian driver has managed to mostly steer away from troubles‘, even scoring some good points in Austria….
