“The 2025 season could be the most exciting in the last decade”

“The 2025 season could be the most exciting in the last decade”Max Verstappen said a few months ago to MD. “Without a doubt, I think it could be a very big fight”Toto Wolff also told this newspaper. And after the end of the 2024 World Cup, after the Abu Dhabi F1 GP, the feeling that remains is that the fight for the 2025 world title can be big and lively, with several candidates and more cars among the opponents.

For Fernando Alonso, there are only two candidates: “2026 continues to be a big bet for many teams, apart from McLaren and Ferrari, with a higher car, the rest of us think that we have little options next year, in 2025, and I think we have to think a little bit about having a good future in the team”. However, the man from Oviedo and others did not include McLarens in the pools this year and managed to have the best car on the whole course.

2025 is a unique year. This is the final course of the current regulation, and at the end of an era things are always equal, as happened in the 21st for history because of the remembered and controversial battle between Verstappen and Hamilton.

2024, 7 different winners… and 2025?

Things became very even in 2024, where the superiority of Red Bull Done, McLaren was the best car on most circuits and there were up to 7 different winners, with two wins for each and with drivers from four different teams. And in 2025, that parity could be even greater if teams manage to sharpen their weapons. The 2025 cars will be a pure evolution of this year and, regardless of whether there are any surprises, the logical thing is that the season starts with an image similar to that of the end of the year.

Verstappen, no dominant car from the start

Max Verstappen may not start the season with a car as dominant as he has been this year. However, we have to see what it can achieve. Red Bullbecause Max He recently admitted that most of the problems with his car will not be solved this year because of the budget ceiling and they need to solve them in creating the 2025 car better car next year, without too many changes -shrink like this guy. But not as dominant as it was at the beginning of 2024, when Max achieved a major advantage in his fight for the crown.

McLaren, great antagonist next to Ferrari

Before the Dutch, it was taken for granted McLaren He is among the favorites after his excellent rise in this campaign. So, Lando Norris He will avenge his mistakes this year to show that he can fight for the title. He will do it next to a Oscar Piastri who in his third year in F1 will seek to make the decisive leap as a candidate for the crown after a year in which he showed champion quality and talent, but little consistency, especially in the classification .

Ferrari’s last great improvement means that, apart from Verstappen and the McLarenThe Italians also started the 2025 season with options, joining a match that in 2024 was limited to Verstappen-Norris. This time, the curiosity is to see Charles Leclerc with Lewis Hamilton in the same box, their internal fight for the leadership of the team and see if any of them can fight to the end to end the drought of the Italians that lasted since 2008, when they won their last title of Builders (2007 was the year of the last Drivers’ title for Ferrari).

So, waiting to know the name of his partner Verstappen at Red Bull and if he is able to fight above like MaxIn the beginning there may be 5 cars fighting for everything.

Mercedes, the big doubt

To these 5 single-seaters can be added the mercedesthe great unknown for next year. Especially, a lot is expected George Russellgreat British leader due to the absence of hamilton. And one of the good incentives is the debut of the young Italian Andrea Kimi AntonelliOnly 18 years old and considered ‘new Verstappen‘, the good bet for the future of Wolff.

Fight progress while thinking about 2026

The commitment that each team will make to the development of their cars will be important and see if they can duplicate the efforts given the need to create the car. 2026 and make sure they have a competitive car for the new era of the sport, while at the same time they need to improve their 2025 car throughout the year to get wins and titles. In 2021, Red Bull He continued to develop his car and was able to create the dominant car in 2022 which he overwhelmed again in 2023. Each team decides its plan.

Aston Martin and Williams, in another battle

The match in the middle zone also looks tight. In it, Aston Martinafter melting a car that remained stationary, without the evolutions working as expected, wants to straighten its course with a better car that will allow it to lead the middle zone and aim for a surprise in big days.

In its part, Carlos Sainz He will have to start leading a Williams who showed clear improvement in the second part of the course. His reliability behind the wheel will help the team reduce the number of accidents that affected him so much in the latter part of the season.