Formula 1’s bold predictions for 2025

New year, new season. We present you the bold predictions for the 2025 Formula 1 season.
As soon as the 2024 season of Formula 1 The predictions began about what will happen in 2025 thanks to the changes in the lineups of several teams, how competitive this campaign was and the publication of the aerodynamic technical regulations for the new generation cars will debut in 2026, which in theory will put many teams to work for the future and consider 2025 as a “dispensable” year.
Here are some slightly out of the ordinary predictions about what will happen during 2025 in Formula 1.
Charles Leclerc will bring us closer to Lewis Hamilton’s retirement
After his best season since he arrived in F1, Charles Leclerc will face a 40-year-old Lewis Hamilton who was clearly defeated by George Russell using the same tool and who has not been happy with the ground effect regulation that began in 2022.
Leclerc already faced a multiple champion in Sebastian Vettel and he emerged victorious in 2019 and 2020 even with team orders and strategies to benefit the German. It seems that the story with Lewis Hamilton, coming from a season where Leclerc demonstrated clear improvement in every aspect of his profile as a driver, will be no different.
Max Verstappen will defend his title, without the best car, again…
He RB20 It was the car that won the most races during the season but, after the Spanish Grand Prix, a drop in the Red Bull’s performance was seen, which was later confirmed by comments from engineers Pierre Wache and Enrico Balbo about the development ceiling for that concept. which would force the Austrian team to return to the concept of the RB19 (2023), continue with that of the RB20 or create a new one only for 2025 since a new technical regulation begins in 2026.
Having said this, Max Verstappen will continue its winning streak of championships even riding in a car with lower performance than that of its rivals because, as in 2024. In addition, the internal fights in McLaren and Ferrariwill work in your favor since you always stay in the important points zone even when you are not behind the wheel of the best tool on the grid.
Ferrari will keep the Constructors’ Championship
The title drought Ferrari will end in 2025 led by possibly the most talented duo on the grid with Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, which will end 16 long years without any championship.
Ferrari has an excellent platform in the SF-24 to develop the car of 2025 and while it is true that Hamilton’s competitiveness and Leclerc’s desire to prove himself will work against him in the Drivers’ Championship, in the Constructors’ Championship, the tifosi have every reason to feel hopeful of being on top again.
Esteban Ocon will give Haas his first podium
Haas’ progression as a team under the command of Ayao Komatsu will continue in 2025 with a strong push in the alliance with toyota which will provide technical assistance and will also make its wind tunnel in Cologne, Germany, available to the team and will build a simulator for Haas pilots in the United Kingdom offices.
The availability of a simulator will benefit both Oliver Bearman like Esteban Ocon since they will be able to provide more information to the parts development process and will be able to better prepare for the circuits in which they would implement these developments: and that is why the Frenchman will become the first Haas driver to get on a Formula 1 podium.
Aston Martin will become the fourth team on the grid
The team of Lawrence Stroll finished 2024 in fifth position, further away from sixth place (Alpine) than from the fourth (mercedes), in a season in which many changes were introduced to the car that only made it slower, but 2025 is another story.
Adrian Newey He can join the team with two weeks left before the start of the calendar in Australia and although his main focus is expected to be the 2026 concept, the reality is that the Briton’s mastery of the current regulations will be key in his development program in 2025 and with a Fernando Alonso that still has the thirst to be champion again, Aston Martin will manage to overcome Mercedes led by George Russell and an inexperienced rookie like Andrea Kimi Antonelli.
Oscar Piastri will take the McLaren lead from Lando Norris
The “Papaya Rules” will be worthless in 2025. Oscar Piastri will not play the role of Lando Norris’s squire and will establish himself as the leader of a McLaren that will have a solid car, but will fall to Ferrari due to the internal fight between its drivers and the bad decisions of the team led by Andrea Stella regarding strategy.
Piastri will evolve as a driver, leaving behind the mistakes in qualifying and further improving his tire management during the Sunday races, while Norris will feel pressure knowing that he lost the chance to be champion in 2024 and that with each day The better the Australian improves, the less time he has to establish himself as the leader of the team.
Yuki will have better results with his RB than Liam Lawson with Red Bull
Despite not having obtained the second Red Bull seat, Yuki Tsunoda He will maintain the performance we saw in 2024 and will be above Liam Lawson in the drivers’ standings when the season ends.
Point in Tsunoda’s favor are recent comments from Helmut Marko that Lawson should not be compared to Max Verstappen and that he should not try to contribute to the development or setup of the RB21, literally making it clear that the New Zealander should only drive what the team gives him.
Jack Doohan will not arrive at the Monaco GP
Alpine completed the signing of Franco Colapinto as a “reserve pilot” and although Flavio Briatore He said that they will start the season with Pierre Gasly and Doohan as the French team’s duo, Doohan’s future with Alpine has been decided. Many say that he will leave the team in the middle of the season if he does not have important results, the reality is that Doohan will not be able to race the Monaco GP, date number 8 on the calendar.