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F1 set for closest season yet on 75th anniversary
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F1 2025 could be the most exciting grand prix season ever – and it'll coincide with the world championship's 75th anniversary
F1 is looking to get even more exciting in 2025
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This year’s F1 season is one of the most competitive ever seen: four teams have won at least three races or more, which has only happened twice before in 1974 and 1977.
Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren and Red Bull have all tasted champagne on the top step of the podium, while Lando Norris hunts down Max Verstappen for the drivers’ title.
2025 looks to be even tighter: as teams become faster at fine-tuning their cars, performance converges and times get even closer. Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc will join the fight in Scuderia red, while George Russell and teenage hotshot Kimi Antonelli lead the Mercedes charge along with the McLarens of Norris and Oscar Piastri.
Appropriately, 2025 will also be the F1 world championship’s 75th anniversary, celebrating a long history of thrilling battles, charismatic racing heroes and sporting milestones.
We’re set for a standout grand prix season, and Motor Sport is marking the milestone with a special edition 75th anniversary calendar, featuring twelve stunning images spanning the series’ history.
F1 itself is expected to recognise the anniversary through its typical pomp and ceremony: in 2020 a fan festival with drivers, teams and cars was planned in London before being scuppered by Covid, but a 70th anniversary championship race at Silverstone still ultimately went ahead.
It’s likely that next year F1 will want to make up for 2020 and then some with more events, special edition liveries, crash helmets and more.
Two of the teams that scored those three wins in 1974, Ferrari and McLaren, are still going strong while a third – Tyrrell – has a lineage directly traceable to the current Mercedes squad.
Lotus was also a dominant force that year and would be again in ’77. Ferrari and McLaren once more scored at least three wins, while newcomer Wolf – which won on debut with Jody Scheckter – also snared a hat-trick of victories.
Hamilton’s 2025 switch to partner Leclerc at Ferrari will add another dynamic for what could be a thrilling season
In an age of poor reliability and when almost all teams used the Cosworth DFV engine, races were unpredictable and a wide variety of winners could be seen throughout the year.
What makes the modern era different is the performance parity between teams – tight technical regulations and and a couple of season for stragglers to catch up to pace-setters Red Bull means all those running at the front are incredibly close in lap time, with incremental differences of tyre wear, track surface, air temperature and more separating cars by thousandths from session to session.
It’s made first-time winners of McLaren duo Norris and Piastri, while bringing Mercedes and Ferrari back into the winners circle too.
“Every season that we go into, we target the title” Charles Leclerc
It all means Scuderia’s Charles Leclerc believes his team can fight for the titles in 2025.
“Every season that we go into, we always think about and target the title,” Leclerc told ESPN. “That’s what Ferrari should target, and I believe that we are working very well as a team.
“Competition is very tough, and they are very strong – McLaren, especially in the second part of this season, have been impressive – but we are understanding quite a lot of things. We are seeing quite a lot of gains. We just need time to bring those in the form of upgrades on the car.”
While McLaren is very much focused on the here and now, enjoying its first period of front-line competitiveness in over a decade, Red Bull will be hoping to close out one its most successful eras with more silverware, despite a recent dip in form.
Will Mercedes prosper in life-after-Hamilton? George Russell will lead the team – if he isn’t upstaged by the teenager Kimi Antonelli.
All will be revealed in 2025.