Analysis: McLaren’s MCL39 unveil offers few details – but there’s some evident developments

Formula 1’s 2025 launch season kicked off in cryptic fashion with the constructors’ championship winners, no less.
McLaren opened the yearly cloak-and-dagger proceedings with a quintet of images of its MCL39 from a distance while undergoing its Silverstone shakedown, dressed in a papaya and black dazzle camo livery that makes its defining details significantly difficult to …Keep reading

McLaren becomes first F1 team to reveal 2025 car design, with enforced camouflage livery

McLaren has revealed its MCL39 Formula 1 car at a Silverstone season launch event – becoming the first team to show off a 2025 design, albeit with temporary restrictions on its livery.
As all 10 teams are committed to only fully revealing their 2025 liveries at the F1 75 Live event at London’s O2 arena on Tuesday, McLaren can at this stage only show off the MCL39 in a distinctive one-off …Keep reading

F1 reserve drivers: All the back-up drivers for 2025

Formula 1 teams are well underway preparing for the forthcoming 2025 campaign, which will consist of 24 grands prix beginning in Melbourne on the 14-16 March.
The grid is set and all but two teams – McLaren and Aston Martin – have changed their driver line-up, meaning this year will have a new look.
But it is not just the full-time competitors that play a crucial role, as a team’s back-up …Keep reading

Red Bull will not “throw away” 2025 F1 title for 2026 head start

Red Bull’s technical director Pierre Wache has insisted the team will not sacrifice the 2025 Formula 1 title fight – not even to maximise its chances for the new era next season.
F1’s upcoming overhaul in technical rules means teams are facing a difficult balancing act when it comes to allocating their resources over 2025.
Hampered by current regulations which restrict both their …Keep reading