Formula 1 2025

[Lionator]

4 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

This has been oddly passive from RB. Horner would have been throwing banana skins on track by now. 

I mean Tsunoda did try and run Norris off the road haha

[Zear0]

GG Lando. 

[Zear0]

How's the plank looking? 

[PhillippaT]

Congrats to Lando... Didn't need to gamble much this time  

[fleshdaddy]

Well done to Lando! Especially on pulling his missus.

And thanks to Max for making it as exciting an end to a season as it was.

[kenny]

This feels like scoring the winner and waiting for VAR to chalk it off.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

On 30/11/2025 at 19:17, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Would be brilliant if Max's temper tantrum in Spain ends up costing him the title.

[Samilktray]

Always nice to see Verstappen not winning imho 

[UniFox21]

4 minutes ago, kenny said:

This feels like scoring the winner and waiting for VAR to chalk it off.

Glad it isn't just me, sat here expecting something to happen

[Raj]

Cutest f1 champion ever!!

😍

 

[UniFox21]

The camera panning around to the weird amount of people behind the glass in the podium room. F1 chairman lurking around, every driver looking at him wishing he'd go away 

[fleshdaddy]

1 minute ago, UniFox21 said:

The camera panning around to the weird amount of people behind the glass in the podium room. F1 chairman lurking around, every driver looking at him wishing he'd go away 

Yeah, that was odd! Imagine all of those are rich people who've paid insane amounts for the privilege. Bit cringe.

[Izzy]

As an F1 casual these days, I don’t know much about Norris’ back story.

Someone told me he was a spoilt rich kid born with a silver spoon in his mouth whose career has been bankrolled by his rich father.

Is that fair?

[kenny]

Just now, Izzy said:

As an F1 casual these days, I don’t know much about Norris’ back story.

Someone told me he was a spoilt rich kid born with a silver spoon in his mouth whose career has been bankrolled by his rich father.

Is that fair?

You can't be a F1 driver without rich parents, so that seems accurate.

[deejdeej]

5 minutes ago, Izzy said:

As an F1 casual these days, I don’t know much about Norris’ back story.

Someone told me he was a spoilt rich kid born with a silver spoon in his mouth whose career has been bankrolled by his rich father.

Is that fair?

Yeah this can be said for pretty much all of them apart from Hamilton and Ocon I believe.

[Raj]

11 minutes ago, kenny said:

You can't be a F1 driver without rich parents, so that seems accurate.

Except Hamilton who was from working class backgrounds  with his old man doing 2 jobs to pay for Lewis

Edited 7 December 2025 by Raj

[cityfanlee23]

Overall it's been a great season as the end of regulation seasons usually are. In the end Lando did what he needed in the car he had relative to everyone else, Oscar will be a WDC in future just needed a bit more consistency late on. 

Hopefully the new regulations create close racing and we don't end up with another runaway team as we seem to always get these days. 

[kenny]

18 minutes ago, Raj said:

Except Hamilton who was from working class backgrounds  with his old man doing 2 jobs to pay for Lewis

His dad may not have been rich, but it was still a very middle class upbringing. It's not like he was doing nights at Tesco to be able to afford his karting.

 

It's just that karting is so expensive, it's all relative.

[cityfanlee23]

30 minutes ago, Izzy said:

As an F1 casual these days, I don’t know much about Norris’ back story.

Someone told me he was a spoilt rich kid born with a silver spoon in his mouth whose career has been bankrolled by his rich father.

Is that fair?

Generally speaking that's the case, there are a few outliers but yeah, this sport is incredibly hard to get to, it costs around £5-10m to get to F1 depending on raw ability, and usually it's only on the lower cost side if you have generational talent where sponsors will bare a bigger chunk of the cost.
 

[hebangsthedrums]

1 hour ago, kenny said:

His dad may not have been rich, but it was still a very middle class upbringing. It's not like he was doing nights at Tesco to be able to afford his karting.

 

It's just that karting is so expensive, it's all relative.

Grew up in the ghetto (Stevenage)

[ajthefox]

Very pleased for Lando, he's always seemed to me like a very genuine lad. I'm glad he did what he needed to.

 

[Super_horns]

Well done to Lando Norris.

 

Didn’t see the race but obviously did enough and congratulations.

 

Guess Verstappen will probably be wishing there was another race .

[UniFox21]

Overall impressed by Lando, his ability to bottle winning positions over the past few years was impressive to the point thought he'd bottle this. Fully expect Piastri to win a championship in the next few years 

[kenny]

1 hour ago, ajthefox said:

Very pleased for Lando, he's always seemed to me like a very genuine lad. I'm glad he did what he needed to.

 

I liked how confused he was by the fact he had done it. Beneath the social media stuff he seems quite humble.

 

Could be the last one he gets I suspect.

[isaidno]

Hopefully the new cars for 2026 make it more exciting.  Great to see another British champion,  but most of the races this season have been processions.