Why PepsiCo is back in F1 after so long away
For a company as big and well known as PepsiCo, its return to Formula 1 team sponsorship after 34 years away has inevitably prompted some intrigue about why now?After all, PepsiCo already had its foot in the door of grand prix racing through a global partnership with F1 that involved three of its core brands: Gatorade, Sting and Doritos.But there is good reason as to why it has committed to a majo...
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For a company as big and well known as PepsiCo, its return to Formula 1 team sponsorship after 34 years away has inevitably prompted some intrigue about why now?After all, PepsiCo already had its foot in the door of grand prix racing through a global partnership with F1 that involved three of its core brands: Gatorade, Sting and Doritos.But there is good reason as to why it has committed to a majo...
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Why PepsiCo is back with an F1 team after so long away
For a company as big and as well-known as PepsiCo, its return to F1 team sponsorship after 34 years away has inevitably prompted one big question: ...
The 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix crowned a new Formula 1 world champion - but how high does Lando Norris climb in the weekend's rankings?Here’s Edd Straw’s best-to-worst ranking of all 20 drivers’ performances. Agree or disagree? Leave questions or comments for him on this post in The Race Members’ Club and he’ll reply in his Q&A video later this week.How do the rankings work? The 20 drivers will be ...
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The outpouring of relief and pride - and the release of tension - in Lando Norris's incredibly raw reaction to becoming Formula 1 world champion laid bare his gruelling process of turning self-described embarrassment and doubt into a career-changing accomplishment.Two Norris journeys have collided to bring him to celebrate his maiden title.There is the one that has consumed his and his family's li...
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Oscar Piastri’s spectacular lap one pass around the outside of Lando Norris at Turn 9 of Formula 1’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix showed that he wasn't going to down without a fight.The manoeuvre earned plenty of fanfare for the way it was delivered with inch-perfect precision during a campaign where Piastri and Norris have quite rarely been involved in such wheel-to-wheel passes.But things are not always...
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Lando Norris, world champion. It slotted into place in the season finale in a way no one could have any real complaints about. Max Verstappen won his eighth race of 2025 (more than anyone else) to cap a truly brilliant seasonal performance, but Norris did all he needed to do in finishing a conservative third. The way McLaren went about winning one of its drivers a title for the first time in 17 ye...
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Max Verstappen did not play the disruptive role many expected him to in Formula 1's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix title decider, where he came up two points short of a fifth-successive world championship.Expecting Verstappen to make McLaren's life harder on Sunday was not about assuming he would do anything nefarious.It would have been totally legitimate to back the field up, as Lewis Hamilton did the same...
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Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko is to hold talks this winter with the Formula 1 team to decide whether or not he continues in his role next season, amid growing indications he could be heading for retirement.The veteran has been a part of Red Bull’s operation ever since it entered F1 in 2005, and he played a major role in the title successes that it achieved with Sebastian Vettel and Max ...
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Lando Norris is the 2025 Formula 1 world champion - so you can guess where he is in our Abu Dhabi Grand Prix winners and losers selection.But here's our judgement on everyone else as well.Winner - Lando Norris (3rd but world champion)This was a no-frills drive to the title. But there's no way Norris will care about that.He had earned the right to that kind of drive from the lead he'd built up from...
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Max Verstappen is happier after his 2025 season than when he won the Formula 1 title last year – but one particular topic sparked an unexpectedly sharp and angry response from the four-time world champion.Verstappen missed out on a fifth straight championship despite winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, as Lando Norris finished third to clinch his maiden title by just two points.Despite a difficult s...
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As soon as the tyre choices for the 2025 Formula 1 title deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix flashed up, it looked like Red Bull had given Yuki Tsunoda the opportunity to replicate the critical help Sergio Perez gave Max Verstappen in the 2021 F1 finale.That’s exactly how it played out - except whereas Perez earned “legend” status, in Verstappen’s own words, for Red Bull, Tsunoda just got himself a pena...
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In his darkest moments, Lando Norris must have feared the 2025 Formula 1 world championship was beyond him.That’s an inevitable consequence of the zero-sum game that is elite sport, where it feels like it’s either total success or abject failure and no middle ground. Intellectually, Norris will always have understood there will be other years and new opportunities, but emotionally the feeling will...
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Max Verstappen dominated the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix but third place behind McLaren team-mate and third title contender Oscar Piastri was enough to give Lando Norris the 2025 Formula 1 world championship title.Results1 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)2 Oscar Piastri (McLaren) +12.594s3 Lando Norris (McLaren) +16.572s4 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) +23.279s5 George Russell (Mercedes) +48.563s6 Fernando Alonso (A...
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Lando Norris sealed his first Formula 1 drivers' title with a third-place finish in the 2025 season finale in Abu Dhabi.The 26-year-old has become champion in his seventh season on the grid, and is the first McLaren driver to win the title since Lewis Hamilton in 2008.Red Bull driver Max Verstappen took a dominant win out front, his eighth of the season (which is most in the field), but never atte...
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Formula 1's latest three-car title decider was a fair bit less dramatic than its famous 2007 counterpart - or the four-car 2010 showdown - but it couldn't help but be tense, even if points leader Lando Norris ultimately drove the exact race he needed to to ensure triumph.But was it a good finale, and how does Norris's title-clinching campaign compare now that it's over and his mission has been acc...
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Lando Norris avoided a penalty that could have cost him the Formula 1 title for a questionable overtake on Yuki Tsunoda during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.Norris was passed by McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri on the opening lap of the season finale but survived early pressure from Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc to hold third place, which would guarantee him the title even with nearest championship riv...
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McLaren has made an outlier tyre choice for the Formula 1 title decider in Abu Dhabi that it hopes will help it head off a major threat in its bid to beat Max Verstappen.On a weekend where the super low-grip surface has triggered a surprise return of front tyre graining, something that McLaren is especially vulnerable to, there is uncertainty about how big an impact it could have in ramping up deg...
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Formula 1’s three-way title showdown is delicately poised with a fascinating set of dilemmas facing Max Verstappen, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.Poleman Verstappen is in the best position to win the race - but Norris, who leads the championship by 12 points, will be world champion if the drivers finish in the order they take the start.Piastri, meanwhile, is well-placed to attack both but require...
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Max Verstappen’s mantra of ‘all we can do is our best, the rest isn’t in our control’ is helping him to unerringly hit the target in his Red Bull, despite it being a more contrary car to set up than the McLaren of his 2025 Formula 1 title rivals.After starting the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend well behind in FP1 yesterday and steadily clawing the deficit down in the evening, a change to a smaller w...
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Our pick of the standout performers and the biggest flops from the final qualifying session of F1 2025.Winner - Max Verstappen (1st)'Moral champion' is a horrible cliche and it maybe implies Verstappen has in some way been hideously wronged this year by whoever beats him to the title (if he is beaten). It's nothing like that - he just had a relatively ropey Red Bull for too much of a year in which...
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Max Verstappen hopes the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is not “straightforward” for McLaren as he bids to beat Lando Norris to the Formula 1 title - and is expected to play a role in making that the case if needed.Verstappen earned a brilliant pole position at the Yas Marina Circuit but championship leader Norris will start alongside him on the front row.Norris has a 12-point lead over Verstappen so even i...
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