F1 2025 season: Schedule, standings, sprints and how to watch
The 2025 Formula One season is two races in and McLaren have begun the season where they finished last: with two victories in two grands prix. Lando Norris won the first of those in Australia whilst his team-mate Oscar Piastri triumphed in China.
It was a bittersweet weekend for Lewis Hamilton who took sprint race victory in Shanghai but was then excluded from the grand prix classification, along with his Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc, after finishing sixth.
When is the next F1 race of the 2025 season?
The third round of the 2025 F1 season is the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix that takes place at Suzuka. That runs from Friday April 4 until Sunday April 6.
Drivers standings
Constructor standings
What are the driver line-ups and teams?
There are a fair few changes to the grid heading into 2025 with Sergio Pérez being dumped by Red Bull the latest news. There are also no fewer than six full-season rookies on the grid. Yes, Oliver Bearman, Jack Doohan and Liam Lawson have all taken part in races but none of them has begun a season before. They are joined by Kimi Antonelli at Mercedes, Isack Hadjar at RB and Gabriel Bortoleto at Sauber, who have never raced in F1.
There are changes elsewhere too as Lewis Hamilton makes his Ferrari debut, Carlos Sainz moves to Williams, Esteban Ocon moves to Haas and Nico Hulkenberg moves from Haas to Sauber.
How to watch F1 on TV and streaming
As has been the case for some time now, in the United Kingdom, Sky Sports F1 has near exclusive coverage rights for the season. It will be showing all practice sessions, qualifying sessions, sprint qualifying and races throughout the season. Most likely pre-season testing too.
Channel 4 has its extended qualifying and race highlights again, with the British Grand Prix in July broadcast live.
If you are outside the UK you may also be able to subscribe to F1’s own F1TV for a monthly fee throughout the season.
Will there be sprint races in 2025?
Yes. They are in China, Miami, Belgium, Austin, Sao Paulo and Qatar. The format will stay the same in that there will be sprint qualifying to set the grid for the sprint race and eight world championship points are awarded for the winner down to one point for the eighth-placed finisher.
In short, the 2025 sprint race weekends are as follows.
- Chinese Grand Prix, March 21-23 (Winner: Lewis Hamilton)
- Miami Grand Prix, May 2-4
- Belgian Grand Prix, July 25-27
- United States Grand Prix, October 17-19
- Sao Paulo Grand Prix, November 7-9
- Qatar Grand Prix, November 28-30
When is the summer break?
Last season contained both an official summer break – including a two-week mandatory shutdown period for all F1 team personnel – and an unofficial autumn break with three weekends off in a row. However, that is gone from the 2025 calendar with the races generally a little more spread out.
July and August are perhaps less hectic than they have been, with a three-week gap between the British Grand Prix on July 6 and the Belgian Grand Prix on July 27.
The summer break this year begins after the Belgian Grand Prix, on Monday, August 4. The action returns on Friday, August 29 with practice for the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
How many F1 races will there be in 2025?
For the second time in F1’s history the season will comprise 24 grands prix and six sprint races, ending with the season finale at Yas Marina in Abu Dhabi on December 8.
How to get F1 tickets
The best place is the official Formula 1 tickets website.
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