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Data-first coverage of the 2025 season.

Your go-to source for Formula 1 insights, race analysis, and championship updates.

Welcome to the Race Mate Blog — your go-to source for Formula 1 insights. From real-time driver standings to in-depth analysis of the Constructors' Championship, we cover every angle of the F1 season. Explore our race previews, post-race breakdowns, and comprehensive guides including our F1 Points System Explained and F1 Constructors' Championship Explained. Whether you're tracking Formula 1 standings, understanding race analysis, or diving deep into team strategies, our expert content keeps you informed throughout the championship battle.

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FIA Prize Giving 2025: Champions Celebrate in Tashkent
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FIA Prize Giving 2025: Champions Celebrate in Tashkent

The season always ends twice. First, it ends on track — brake temperatures peaking, undercuts landing, tyres falling away one lap earlier than your models promised. In 2025, that ending came under the floodlights at Yas Marina, where a podium was worth a world title.

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Tyre Test & Young Driver Day at Yas Marina
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Tyre Test & Young Driver Day at Yas Marina

The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is built to feel like an ending — sunset to floodlights, trophies to fireworks, a season’s worth of tyre degradation and radio tension finally exhaling.

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Season Review: Final Drivers’ & Teams’ Standings
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Season Review: Final Drivers’ & Teams’ Standings

A 24‑race season is always a story of momentum — but 2025 was a story of margins, The kind that live in tyre temperatures, undercut windows, and the last few tenths you can still find when your engineer says, “Target is P3.” Because that’s what decided it: Lando Norris is the 2025 Formula 1 World Champion on 423 points, with Max Verstappen just two points back on 421, and Oscar Piastri third on 410, And yes, it really was that tight: the finale at Yas Marina delivered a 10‑point swing (VER P1 vs NOR P3) that nearly rewrote the entire season in 90 minutes.

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Abu Dhabi GP Race Results: Champion Crowned
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Abu Dhabi GP Race Results: Champion Crowned

Twilight racing at Yas Marina is designed for drama — and the 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix delivered it in the purest, most F1 way possible: a race win that wasn’t a title, and a podium that was.

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Abu Dhabi Qualifying: Results & Championship Impact
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Abu Dhabi Qualifying: Results & Championship Impact

Twilight running, cool track temps, and a world title on the line. Qualifying at the 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix delivered a clean, high‑pressure hour — and the grid for the decider could not be more combustible. Max Verstappen delivered under the lights to take pole, with championship leader Lando Norris alongside and Oscar Piastri third. With Norris carrying a 12‑point cushion into Sunday and the podium acting as his golden ticket, the front row is a proper arm‑wrestle for history.

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Final Practice Report: Abu Dhabi’s Last Adjustments
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Final Practice Report: Abu Dhabi’s Last Adjustments

The title picture is brutally simple and brutally tight: Lando Norris leads the Drivers’ Championship on 408 points, with Max Verstappen on 396 (-12) and Oscar Piastri on 392 (-16) heading into the weekend. McLaren have already sealed the Constructors’ Championship (800 points), but the Drivers’ crown is still live ammunition.

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Qualifying Spotlight: Abu Dhabi’s Pressure Cooker
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Qualifying Spotlight: Abu Dhabi’s Pressure Cooker

Twilight running, two long DRS blasts, and a championship on a knife‑edge. The 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix qualifying hour is set for Saturday, December 6, 14:00–15:00 UK (18:00–19:00 local, GST) — 60 minutes that will frame the title decider on Sunday. Lando Norris leads the Drivers’ Championship with 408 points, Max Verstappen sits 12 back on 396, and Oscar Piastri is 16 off the summit on 392. Pole itself doesn’t pay points, but at Yas Marina, track position is leverage: clean air preserves rear tyres in Sector 3, undercuts are potent, and a front‑row start is often the difference between managing the race and chasing it.

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Abu Dhabi Practice & Setup Preview
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Abu Dhabi Practice & Setup Preview

Desert twilight, two long DRS blasts, and a title fight on a knife-edge. Abu Dhabi closes the 2025 Formula 1 season with a Friday that matters more than most: teams must thread the needle between hot‑track learning in FP1 and high‑fidelity race prep in FP2. With Lando Norris leading Max Verstappen by 12 points and Oscar Piastri a further four back, every setup call and long‑run average is a championship lever. Norris 408, Verstappen 396, Piastri 392 — one fastest lap or one undercut can swing everything.

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Championship Decider: Norris vs. Verstappen vs. Piastri
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Championship Decider: Norris vs. Verstappen vs. Piastri

Twilight racing, a 1.2 km back‑straight into a heavy‑braking hairpin, and three drivers separated by a handful of points. The 2025 Formula 1 World Championship will be settled at Yas Marina Circuit — 58 laps on a 5.281 km layout where tyre discipline, traction out of slow corners, and late‑braking nerve will decide the crown. Lando Norris leads with 408 points, Max Verstappen is 12 back on 396, and Oscar Piastri sits a further four behind on 392. One place gained, one fastest lap, one Safety Car at the wrong moment — that’s the margin between heartbreak and history.

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Abu Dhabi GP Track Guide & Final Showdown Preview
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Abu Dhabi GP Track Guide & Final Showdown Preview

Twilight racing, a 1.2 km blast into a heavy‑braking zone, and three drivers separated by a handful of points. The 2025 Formula 1 season comes down to Yas Marina Circuit — 58 laps on a 5.281 km layout where tyre discipline, traction off slow corners, and late‑braking nerve decide legacies. Lando Norris leads Max Verstappen by 12 points with Oscar Piastri a further four back; one mistake or one fastest lap could swing the crown.

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