Formula One bears all the hallmarks of a conventional sport – tension, physical exertion, unscripted competition – but it’s much more than that. When the grid scrambles towards the first turn, F1 boasts heart-stopping excitement to rival any other competitive event. Like the silence before championship point at Wimbledon, the opening turn of a grand prix remains one of the ultimate pulse-quickeners.
And despite what F1’s critics say, the sport also poses a stiff physical test for those involved. You’re not only watching cars fizz through the corners, you’re also watching 20 athletes pushing their deceptively robust bodies to the limit. Hopefully, as with all the best sports, there’s unpredictability, too. Max Verstappen is unlikely to enjoy another procession towards a fifth consecutive title with Red Bull. McLaren clinched the constructors’ title in 2024, Ferrari offered flashes of title-contending pace, and Mercedes demonstrated ominous progress.
[image id="2234241" size="landscape_thumbnail" title="F1 2025 driver line-up" alt="The full driver line-up for F1 2025 posing for a photoshoot" classes=""] F1 2025 driver line-up.This weekend’s Australian Grand Prix marks the start of a 24-race calendar stretching to December. The season was launched in London last month with a flashy new event hosted by Jack Whitehall. New car liveries were unveiled to deafening soundtracks, pyrotechnics, slogan-packed hype videos and a million lasers. The sport has been injected into mainstream pop culture like never before, thanks in part to the hit Netflix series Drive to Survive. Studies show that the fastest growing demographic in the fanbase is women aged 16 to 24. F1 is the world’s highest-speed soap opera.
This weekend, the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne will effectively become Albert Square for those mainly interested in dissecting the dynamics between drivers, the relationships, the squabbles. And that’s fine. The voice of Sky Sports’ F1 coverage, commentator David Croft, summarises it perfectly: “Fans at any level can consume the sport the way they want to, and get out of it what they want to get out of it. If you want to be into every single bit of technical minutiae, you can. If you just want to watch on a Sunday, you can. If you just want to watch Drive to Survive, you can. It doesn’t matter.”
F1 has something for everyone, then. It’s sport, but so much more.
[image id="2234248" size="landscape_thumbnail" title="F1 2025 commentators presenters" alt="David Croft leans on the rear wing of an F1 car" classes=""] F1 2025 commentator David Croft.Sky Sports F1 commentator David Croft highlights three things to look out for during the 2025 Formula One season
1. Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari
[image id="2234246" size="landscape_thumbnail" title="F1 2025 radio" alt="Lewis Hamilton in Ferrari outfit at F1 75 Live" classes=""] F1 2025.It’s the biggest transfer story in Formula One in many a year: Lewis Hamilton has left Mercedes for Ferrari. It’s a seismic move, and one that just looks great. A rejuvenated Lewis Hamilton is always good for the sport, and it’s going to be fascinating to see how the dynamic with team-mate Charles Leclerc pans out.
Can Hamilton win the world title and become only the second man to win with three or more teams? Yes, I believe he can. I was talking to a team principal just a couple of weeks ago, not at Ferrari or Mercedes, who felt this season was probably Hamilton’s best chance to land an eighth world title.
2. Four-team battle for the title
[image id="2234238" size="landscape_thumbnail" title="F1 2025 calendar" alt="Max Verstappen enters his Formula 1 car" classes=""] Max Verstappen.How happy is Max Verstappen at Red Bull? Will those stories about him wanting to leave start surfacing again if they haven’t got a championship-winning car?
This could be Verstappen’s most difficult title defence yet. But, as we saw last year, even when he doesn’t have the fastest car, he’s still capable of getting maximum points.
It’s going to be a close battle between Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes. I think we have eight drivers who will fancy their chances of getting on the podium on any given Sunday, certainly for the first few races of the season at least. We’re in for an absolute thriller.
Another thing to consider is at what stage teams decide to switch off their development ahead of the big regulation changes coming next year. Without those constant updates, will the pecking order be as tight as we think it’s going to be throughout the whole year?
3. Flexible front wing clampdown
Not wishing to be too technical, but flexible front wings (aka flexi wings) are going to be a key story through the season.
Put simply, the sport’s governing body, the FIA, has decided that the cars’ wings, which are deployed to maximise downforce through corners and maintain stability down straights, should flex less in order to ensure that there is a level playing field for all the teams and to “promote fair and exciting racing”.
The new technical directive comes into force at the Spanish Grand Prix at the end of May. As a result, there’s a chance we will end up having a season of two halves, to borrow parlance from football, whereby a team is doing fine for the first few races of the season and then finds that things have changed quite drastically in terms of the performance of their cars when the new rules kick in.
It’s an issue that is rumbling away in the background as a nice little technical story to start the season.
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