F1 2025 car and livery reveals — every team's launch date so far
Every 2025 F1 car launch date announced so far, plus details of the livery reveal where all ten teams will unveil their new look at the same live event in London's O2, featuring all of next year's drivers and team principals
Every Formula 1 team has now revealed their 2025 car liveries after a first-of-its kind season launch event in London.
All ten teams and the full 2025 driver line-up were on stage at the O2 to show their updated colour schemes, but were painted on old or show cars, so there’s still plenty that we haven’t seen.
Most of the new cars have been kept under wraps and are gradually being revealed separately. McLaren, Haas and Williams did so ahead of the launch event, sending their 2025 machines on track at Silverstone for a few laps in a shakedown to ensure they ran as expected.
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Ferrari is next in line, with its car expected on its Fiorano test track today. Mercedes says that its car will be unveiled on February 24, a day after Aston Martin.
You’ll find images from the London launch and shakedowns below, but even the latter may only be a teaser of the new bodywork we’ll see on track: teams will typically hide or disguise innovative features until the first day of pre-season testing, which takes place on February 26 in Bahrain this year. More significant changes may also take place before the first races of the year in Australia on March 16.
It’s a drawn-out process that lasts almost a month but, from the evening of F1 75 Live to the moment the lights go out in Melbourne, you can expect every scrap of information to be scrutinised, debated and speculated upon. Scroll down for all the key moments of the 2025 F1 launch season.
Next season is the last under the current set of technical rules so, while no team will turn down the chance to win the world championship, each has a greater prize in sight: the opportunity to dominate the new 2026 era, when new regulations for both the cars and engines come into force. Any team with an advantage in 2026 could find themselves at the front for several seasons to come — as Red Bull did in 2022, following Mercedes in 2014.
That means that teams designed their 2024 cars to last two seasons, with major updates expected for 2025, but no all-new designs. Resources can then be focused on developing the best possible concept for the following year.
While the launch event yielded few clues as to the 2025 changes, the individual team launches and F1 shakedowns should reveal more. The shakedowns help teams to ensure that the cars are functioning as expected. Testing is restricted so teams use one of their “filming days”, where they are allowed to run for a strictly limited distance, allowing promotional footage to be recorded.
F1 car launch dates 2025
Ferrari
Car launch date: February 19
Leclerc on track in the SF-25
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Lewis Hamilton joins Charles Leclerc in 2025 at a Ferrari team that seems to be improving gradually, and we’ve now seen the car: a day after the livery reveal, Leclerc and Hamilton were back at Maranello, taking the SF-25 for its first laps at the Fiorano test track.
Unlike most teams, which are making major updates to last year’s cars, Ferrari has an almost all-new machine as it looks to power Hamilton and Leclerc into championship contention.
Which driver takes the lead will be fascinating to see, but the team will need to iron out performance inconsistencies where the car has race-winning pace one weekend, but is out of contention the next.
Images of Haas‘s car leaked out ahead of the F1 75 after a Silverstone shakedown on February 16. Once again the team has left large areas of exposed carbon, suggesting that it’s looking to save weight.
It will have high hopes for its 2025 F1 car, given the progress it has made during the 2024 season in developing its car. A run of five consecutive points finishes was only brought to an end by the chaotic, wet Sao Paulo Grand Prix. With a new line-up made up of the experienced Esteban Ocon and impressive Oliver Bearman, the team will be looking to maintain in spot alongside Alpine and RB in the midfield.
Williams launched its latest F1 creation — the FW47 — at Silverstone on February 14, with the aim of progressing up the grid after a turbulent 2024 season.
The team has a new name, with Atlassian coming onboard as a title sponsor, and a party refreshed driver line-up, as Carlos Sainz joins from Ferrari to partner Alex Albon in place of Franco Colapinto.
Nine appearances in the final Q3 stage of qualifying pointed to the 2024 car’s pace, but the poor form of Logan Sargeant – before being replaced by Colapinto – and a series of crashes for Albon, often down to bad luck, has left the team languishing in ninth place.
Williams shakedown at Silverstone
Williams
However, early shakedowns of the FW47 at Silverstone put an unmissable grin on the face of Sainz, who reported that “everything is working as it should.”
“Watch our pathway,” added team principal James Vowles. “This should be a good one this year.”
The livery revealed soon afterwards was barely different to the shakedown scheme, with plenty of blue.
The final year of the Sauber F1 team looks unlikely to be one of its finest, considering the complete lack of points in 2024.
Its transition to the Audi F1 team has been far from smooth, with whispers of a lack of progress before CEO Andreas Seidl was replaced by Mattia Binotto in the summer.
There’s also continuing doubt over Audi’s commitment, given the factory closures announced by its parent company, the Volkswagen Group.
It could make 2025 a difficult year for new recruits Nico Hülkenberg and rookie Gabriel Bortoleto, with no certainty that the situation will improve in 2026 when the team will rebrand and use a new Audi power unit.
For 2025, the team sticks with a green livery in deference to sponsor Stake, which merges into black at the rear, perhaps in recognition to the very first Sauber F1 car that raced all in black.
Alpine
Car launch date: TBC
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Alpine
A largely dismal 2024 season ended on something of a high note for Alpine, after an upturn in pace was followed by a 2-3 finish in Brazil – aided by the wet weather and a red flag during the Grand Prix. The team will be hoping for more of the same in 2025, which is the final year that the car will be running the in-house power unit.
Parent company Renault is disbanding its F1 engine operation, and the team will switch to Mercedes power in 2026.
Jack Doohan joins Pierre Gasly at the team, with midfield leaders Aston Martin the target to beat, although Doohan already looks under pressure from newly-signed reserve Franco Colapinto.
Despite frequently showing point-scoring pace last year, the team will need to find big gains over the winter if it wants to move into the top five, although its new white colour scheme, with bright red, yellow and blue highlights should prove distinctive wherever it is in the field.
If it is running near the back, then it wouldn’t be a great surprise if attention turns early to 2026.
Aston Martin
Car launch date: February 24, shakedown: February 24
2023 was the start of a new era for Aston Martin, and the sizeable investment made by owner Lawrence Stroll ultimately paid off big time. The addition of new technical staff, a new base of operations at Silverstone, continued work on a new wind tunnel and a new driver in Fernando Alonso all combined to score eight podium finishes and secure fifth in the constructors’ standings.
But results slipped at the end of last year, and that decline continued in 2024, when its fell behind the front-runners: the next-best team after the big four of Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes.
Its focus is on the 2026 season, and a new Honda engine combined with the design genius of Adrian Newey, but it will want to improve in 2025. We’ll see the results of its efforts on February 23 when the new car is unveiled online, followed by a shakedown the following day in Bahrain.
As the image above shows, the livery will once more be Aston’s trademark green.
Mercedes
Car launch date: February 24, shakedown: February 25
Will the 2025 Mercedes W16 be the machine that won races last year in Austria, Britain and Belgium, during a sensational, if somewhat fortunate, run of victories? Or will it be the car that Hamilton at times dubbed “undriveable” and “the worst I’ve ever driven” at other events this year?
There’s no shortage of effort being put in, given the late launch dates that Mercedes has announced: with the livery now unveiled (above), it plans to reveal the car itself on February 24, followed by a shakedown the next day. Pre-season testing then begins on February 26.
As well as the car, there’s an updated line-up to bed in as 18-year-old Kimi Antonelli joins Mercedes alongside George Russell in 2025, replacing Lewis Hamilton.
The team isn’t far from front-running pace, but does have a dilemma when it comes to resource, and how much to allocate to development in 2025.
Its 2026 power unit is much anticipated, given how dominant the last all-new one was in 2014, but it will need a car to match. The factory team won’t want to be outraced by any of its power unit customers in 2026 — McLaren, Alpine and Williams.
Antonelli could also bring fireworks. Team boss Toto Wolff believes that he is the next Max Verstappen. Where will that leave George Russell?
The reigning constructors’ champions are under no illusion as to the challenge of retaining the title — as well as going a step further and making Lando Norris or Oscar Piastri an F1 world champion.
“2024 highlighted how highly competitive the grid is, which is something that will carry through to this year’s championship,” said team principal Andrea Stella. “We therefore must keep focused to compete at the front in this tight field. It’s going to be an exciting but incredibly challenging year ahead.
“The team have worked extremely hard to prepare as best as possible for the start of the season. We learned a lot from our battles last year, so we take this and use it to push our goal for the year.”
A policy of carefully testing upgrades before adding them to the car served the team well in 2024, and being the first team to reveal its 2025 car is an indication of how it aims to hit the ground running in 2025.
Much like Ferrari and Mercedes, the battle between its two drivers will be fascinating to see. Early season form gave Lando Norris an early points lead over Oscar Piastri in 2024, but both drivers won races, and each will have visions of claiming the 2025 title.
2024 started amid rumour and scandal for Red Bull and then the team lost its dominant form, as rivals brought upgrades. Its headstart and Max Verstappen’s determined secured him a fourth drivers’ title, but the constructors’ championship slipped away, with Sergio Perez failing to deliver the points needed to fight McLaren and Ferrari.
That hastened the end of Perez’s Red Bull career, so Liam Lawson will now sit alongside Verstappen in the Red Bull garage. They look to have a fight on their hands in 2025, having been out-developed by rivals last year, and Lawson will need to be up to speed quickly if the team wants to regain the constructors’ crown, while his support could be essential if Verstappen is to claim another drivers’ title.
