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.

Then it ends again in a suit.

On Friday, December 12, 2025, the FIA’s champions traded racewear for red carpet at the FIA Prize Giving (FIA Awards) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan — a final punctuation mark on a year defined by margins, not myths. And for F1 fans, it was the moment the numbers became a trophy: Lando Norris collecting the 2025 Formula 1 World Championship award, as McLaren closed the book on their first title double in decades.

Below is everything you need to know — time, broadcast, context, and the data-driven championship storylines that made Tashkent feel like the last lap of the season.

FIA Awards 2025: Date, Time, Venue, and Broadcast

If you’re building your off-season calendar, this is the anchor event: the FIA’s annual championship celebration across its world championships.

When is the FIA Prize Giving 2025?

  • Date: Friday, December 12, 2025
  • Broadcast time: 18:00 GMT (also listed as 13:00 EST / 19:00 CET)

Where is it held?

  • City: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
  • Venue: Humo Arena (with 2,500 local fans in attendance, per FIA)

How to watch (no paywall required)

The FIA confirmed the show is broadcast via its official streaming and social channels (including YouTube).

Why the FIA Prize Giving Matters (Even If You’re ‘Just Here for F1’)

It’s easy to treat the FIA Prize Giving like an epilogue. But in a data-driven sport, it’s also a season audit — the moment where results become record.

  • The Drivers’ Champion becomes the champion.
  • The Constructors’ Champion becomes the benchmark.
  • And the details that defined the year — consistency, conversion, damage limitation — get compressed into a single number you can’t argue with: points.

For RaceMate users, that’s the real value. The gala isn’t just celebration; it’s a reminder that in modern F1, a title is often won in the races you don’t win.

If you want to stress-test that idea with your own scenarios, use our championship calculator: RaceMate Championship Simulator.

The F1 Moment: Norris Receives the Trophy as McLaren Seal the Double

Lando Norris is the 2025 Formula 1 World Champion, finishing the season on 423 points — just two points ahead of Max Verstappen (421), with Oscar Piastri third (410).

And in Tashkent, Norris finally got the physical proof.

A few context notes that matter if you’re tracking era shifts:

  • Norris became the 35th F1 world champion and the 11th British champion.
  • McLaren completed a drivers’ + constructors’ double, their first such double since 1998.
  • Verstappen did not attend due to illness, sending a recorded message instead.

If you missed the on-track decider, start here: Abu Dhabi GP Race Results: Champion Crowned.

The title fight, in numbers (and why it stayed alive)

The 2025 championship wasn’t defined by one dominant car — it was defined by conversion rates and lost weekends.

Key data points:

  • Final top three: Norris 423, Verstappen 421, Piastri 410
  • Winning volume: Verstappen 8 wins, Norris 7, Piastri 7
  • Margin: 2 points — effectively one position swing on a Sunday

And crucially for the points math:

  • There is no fastest-lap bonus from 2025 onwards. That removed the ‘free’ extra point that could previously distort close finishes — meaning this title margin was built almost entirely on finishing positions, not late-race flier laps.

Want to replay the final two rounds with alternate results? Run the permutations in /simulate.

For the full table and a deeper championship narrative, revisit our breakdown: Season Review: Final Drivers’ & Teams’ Standings.

Final 2025 F1 Standings Snapshot (Drivers + Constructors)

Below are the headline standings that framed the Tashkent ceremony.

Top 10 — Drivers’ Championship

  1. Lando Norris (McLaren) — 423
  2. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) — 421
  3. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) — 410
  4. George Russell (Mercedes) — 319
  5. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) — 242
  6. Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) — 156
  7. Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) — 150
  8. Alexander Albon (Williams) — 73
  9. Carlos Sainz (Williams) — 64
  10. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) — 56

Constructors’ Championship

  • 1) McLaren — 833
  • 2) Mercedes — 469
  • 3) Red Bull Racing — 451
  • 4) Ferrari — 398
  • 5) Williams — 137

That’s the Constructors picture that gave McLaren their ‘double’ — and it also explains why 2026 feels so volatile: everyone else is chasing a team that scored 833 points in a season without the fastest-lap bonus.

From Melbourne to Yas Marina: The 24-Race Map Behind the Trophy

Tashkent is the gala, but the championship is built across a calendar that forces teams to be good in multiple ‘versions’ of F1: kerb-riding street tracks, high-speed aero tests, low-speed traction slogs, and heat-management endurance races.

The 2025 season ran across 24 rounds, ending in Abu Dhabi (Yas Marina Circuit).

A few calendar anchors that shaped the year’s competitive rhythm:

  • Season opener: Australia (Melbourne)
  • High-downforce reference points: Monaco, Hungary
  • Aero efficiency stress tests: Monza, Spa-Francorchamps
  • Heat + degradation problem-solving: Bahrain, Qatar
  • Finale: Abu Dhabi (Yas Marina)

And because the sport never truly stops, Yas Marina also hosted the immediate ‘next chapter’ — tyre work and young driver running — right after the finale: Tyre Test & Young Driver Day at Yas Marina.

More Than F1: One Stage for the FIA’s World Champions

One of the defining features of the FIA Awards is that it’s a shared paddock moment — champions across multiple disciplines under one roof.

In 2025, the FIA described the ceremony as crowning champions from its world championship categories in Tashkent, during FIA General Assemblies week, with FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem present.

A couple of notable non-F1 headlines from the same night:

  • WRC: Sébastien Ogier and Vincent Landais were officially crowned World Rally champions in Tashkent.
  • F1 ‘Action of the Year’ (fan-voted): Verstappen received recognition for his Imola overtake on Piastri (awarded in his absence).

That’s the point of the FIA gala: it turns motorsport’s siloed seasons into a single global scoreboard.

RaceMate Data Lab: Why 2025’s Rules Make ‘P2 vs P3’ Matter Even More

With the fastest lap bonus removed from 2025 onward, the points system is cleaner — and harsher.

  • You can’t ‘rescue’ a weekend with a late fastest-lap pit stop.
  • You can’t steal a cheap extra point if you’re outside the win fight.
  • The championship becomes more about expected value across 24 races than about opportunistic micro-scores.

That’s exactly why a two-point title margin hits so hard: it’s almost pure finishing-position math.

If you want to quantify that effect:

  1. Open RaceMate’s /simulate tool
  2. Plug in the last 3–5 rounds
  3. Test swaps like:
    • Norris P3 → P4
    • Verstappen P1 → P2
    • Sprint P6 → P3

You’ll quickly see what 2025 taught the grid: small deltas compound.

Conclusion: Tashkent Was the Trophy Night — but the Data Lives All Winter

The FIA Prize Giving in Tashkent wasn’t just a ceremony. It was the final confirmation that 2025 belonged to precision:

  • Norris winning a title with 423 points, not by dominance but by margins
  • McLaren delivering a constructors haul of 833 and completing a historic double
  • A season where the absence of the fastest-lap bonus made the points table feel truer — and tighter

And now, the off-season begins the way it always does: with questions that look like predictions, but are really just modelling problems.

Start yours here:

Because the trophies are handed out in December — but championships are understood in the details.