Horse Racing stats man, Andy has contributed to OLBG for 18 years - An Ipswich fan and F1 fanatic, he also contributes EFL football and Motor Sport opinion.
2025 Formula 1 Drivers Championship
Before we look at the 2025 season, there are a couple of links that are worth bookmarking for the season, first the F1 Betting Tips page, on here you will find the F1 predictions for each and every Grand Prix over the season from the OLBG tipsters. Secondly, there is the Best F1 Tipsters page, on there only the profitable F1 tipsters will be shown along with the predictions.
Additionally, don't forget that you yourself can be an F1 Tipster! You can win monthly cash prizes in our F1 Tipster Competition and it is completely free to enter, just simply sign up and start adding your tips to see if you have what is needed to win some of the monthly cash prizes!
The Top Motorsport Betting Sites 2024
Driver Changes for 2025
There are plenty of changes for the 2025 season, Lewis Hamilton ends his twelve-season stay at Mercedes to join Ferrari where he replaced Carlos Sainz who moves to Williams replacing Logan Sergeant.
Coming in to replace Hamilton at Mercedes is Andrea Kimi Antonelli who steps up from F2. Another new face to F1 will be Gabriel Bortoleto who also steps up from F2, he will be in the Sauber team along with Nico Hulkenberg who moves there from Haas.
Speaking of Haas, it will be an all-new lineup for 2025 with Esteban Ocon joining from Alpine and Oliver Bearman who officially steps up from F2 after stepping in last season at both Haas and Ferrari.
Taking up Ocon's seat at Alpine is Jack Doohan who came in for the last race of last season. Valtteri Bottas, Zhou Guanyu and Kevin Magnussen have all lost their seats for 2025.
| Formula 1 Drivers Championship 2025 07 Dec @ 13:00 - Win Tournament | ||
|---|---|---|
| Lando Norris | 3.10 | |
| Max Verstappen | 3.50 | |
| Charles Leclerc | 5.00 | |
| Lewis Hamilton | 10.00 | |
| Oscar Piastri | 11.00 | |
| George Russell | 21.00 | |
2025 F1 Calendar
Here is the schedule for the 2025 season, which is due to have the full twenty-four rounds with the Chinese, Miami, Belgian, United States, Sao Paulo and Qatar all set to host sprint races.
| Round | Date | Grand Prix | Winning Driver |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 Mar | Australian GP | |
| 2 | 22 Mar | Chinese Sprint | |
| 3 | 23 Mar | Chinese GP | |
| 4 | 6 Apr | Japanese GP | |
| 5 | 13 Apr | Bahrain GP | |
| 5 | 20 Apr | Saudi Arabian GP | |
| 6 | 3 May | Miami Sprint | |
| 6 | 4 May | Miami GP | |
| 7 | 18 May | Emilia Romagna GP | |
| 8 | 25 May | Monaco GP | |
| 9 | 1 Jun | Spanish GP | |
| 10 | 15 Jun | Canadian GP | |
| 11 | 29 Jun | Austrian GP | |
| 11 | 6 Jul | British GP | |
| 12 | 26 Jul | Belgian Sprint | |
| 13 | 27 Jul | Belgian GP | |
| 14 | 3 Aug | Hungarian GP | |
| 15 | 31 Aug | Dutch GP | |
| 16 | 7 Sep | Italian GP | |
| 17 | 21 Sep | Azerbaijan GP | |
| 18 | 5 Oct | Singapore GP | |
| 19 | 18 Oct | United States Sprint | |
| 19 | 19 Oct | United States GP | |
| 20 | 26 Oct | Mexico City GP | |
| 21 | 8 Nov | São Paulo Sprint | |
| 21 | 9 Nov | São Paulo GP | |
| 22 | 22 Nov | Las Vegas GP | |
| 23 | 29 Nov | Qatar Sprint | |
| 23 | 30 Nov | Qatar GP | |
| 24 | 7 Dec | Abu Dhabi GP |
F1 Drivers Championship Standings for 2025
Here are the latest standings for the 2025 F1 drivers championship with Max Verstappen looking for a fifth consecutive drivers championship although this looks set to be his toughest season to date.
| Rank | Driver | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Jack Doohan | Alpine | 0 |
| 0 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 0 |
| 0 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 0 |
| 0 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 0 |
| 0 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 0 |
| 0 | Lewis Hamilton | Ferrari | 0 |
| 0 | Esteban Ocon | Haas | 0 |
| 0 | Oliver Bearman | Haas | 0 |
| 0 | Nico Hülkenberg | Kick Sauber | 0 |
| 0 | Gabriel Bortoleto | Kick Sauber | 0 |
| 0 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 0 |
| 0 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 0 |
| 0 | Andrea Kimi Antonelli | Mercedes | 0 |
| 0 | George Russell | Mercedes | 0 |
| 0 | Yuki Tsunoda | Racing Bulls | 0 |
| 0 | TBA | Racing Bulls | 0 |
| 0 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 0 |
| 0 | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull Racing | 0 |
| 0 | Alexander Albon | Williams Racing | 0 |
| 0 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Williams Racing | 0 |
2023 Formula 1 Season Recap
The 2024 calendar season included twenty-four races with the return of the Chinese Grand Prix.
Max and Red Bull started the season dominating but things soon took a turn with the other teams improving their cars which made the season much closer than we have seen of late.
The season started off with eight straight poles for Max Verstappen, five of which he converted into race wins and in total he won seven of the opening ten rounds.
The only exceptions were in Australia when Sainz won, Miami when Lando won and then in Monaco when Leclerc was successful at his home grand prix.
However, after his win in Spain, Max had to wait a while for his next win as did Red Bull but he went into the halfway point still with an eighty-four-point advantage over Lando.
Half-Way Championship Standings
- 255 pts - Max Verstappen
- 171 pts - Lando Norris
- 150 pts - Charles Leclerc
- 146 pts - Carlos Sainz Jr.
- 124 pts - Oscar Piastri
Lando looked to be mounting a challenge in the second half of the season, he secured pole in five of the next seven races, but he only turned two of those into race wins.
The Red Bull suddenly seemed to be struggling and after his win in Spain, Max went ten without a win but his win in Brazil still had him in pole position for the championship with a 62-point lead.
Lando struggled in Vegas when he needed to be at the top of his game, the Mercs were too good for everyone but more importantly, Max finished ahead of Lando to secure the championship with two races to spare.
Final Drivers Championship Standings
- 437 pts - Max Verstappen
- 374 pts - Lando Norris
- 356 pts - Charles Leclerc
- 292 pts - Oscar Piastri
- 290 pts - Carlos Sainz Jr.
Formula One Driver Records
The 300+ Club
The are no new names in the 300 Club, it still remains just the six races that have started 300 or more GPs, however, Fernando Alonso is now in a league of his own as a member of the 400 Club having passed 400 starts during the 2024 season! The other change is that Lewis Hamilton has now moved ahead of Kimi Raikkonen into second spot because of his starts in 2024.
- Fernando Alonso (401 starts from 404 entries)
- Lewis Hamilton (356 starts from 356 entries)
- Kimi Raikkonen (349 starts from 353 entries)
- Rubens Barrichello (322 starts from 326 entries)
- Jenson Button (306 starts from 309 entries)
- Michael Schumacher (306 starts from 308 entries)
Most consecutive race entries
Rubens Barrichello's 326 consecutive race entries between 1993 and 2011 look safe for the time being after Lewis Hamilton missed a race in 2020 his run of 265 came to an end and ahead of him, Vettel's run came to an end in the opening GP of 2022 when missing the race due to illness having made 280 consecutive race entries. The only ongoing run in the top 5 is Valtteri Bottas who is on 247, he has started every single GP since the Australian GP in 2013, he moved into fourth place during the 2024, however, with no seat in 2025, that run looks set to come to an end.
- Rubens Barrichello (326)
- Sebastian Vettel (280)
- Lewis Hamilton (265)
- Valtteri Bottas (247)
- David Coulthard (239)
The one and only in the 100 Club
During the 2021 season, Lewis Hamilton became the first-ever driver to record 100 wins, he has now won 105 races which is now some fourteen clear of Michael Schumacher and forty-two ahead of the next active driver which is Max Verstappen on 63 wins but Max continues to close that gap with each season.
- Lewis Hamilton (105 wins)
- Michael Schumacher (91 wins)
- Max Verstappen (63 wins)
- Sebastian Vettel (53 wins)
- Alain Prost (51 wins)
Lewis fast closing in on Schumacher
Now, Lewis will not be achieving this in 2025 unless he sets an unprecedented number of fastest laps but it is a record that he could take a large chunk out of during the season, that is for fastest laps, Michael Schumacher currently holds the record with seventy-seven and Lewis is some ten behind him on sixty-seven, this is going to be a hard record to snatch from Schuey with time running out for Hamilton.
Total races finished in the points
Lewis increased his number and now has a total of 313 points finishes after passing the 300 mark during the 2024 season. Fernando Alonso also increased his number to 264 and they are the only two active drivers in the top five. Looking further down the list, Sergio Perez (188) is at number six and Max (174) is ninth.
- Lewis Hamilton (313)
- Fernando Alonso (264)
- Michael Schumacher (221)
- Kimi Raikkonen (219)
- Sebastian Vettel (219)
F1 Constructors Championship 2025: Everything You Need to Know
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Andy Powell manages all of our Motor Racing content as a huge F1 and Speedway fan, giving up much of his weekend to watching the action unfold in qualifying and betting on the various potential outcomes as well as managing the Motor Racing Tips and Tipsters in the competition. Ably assisting with the data collection as necessary is our Data Scientist on the expert team, Dan Tracey.
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