Forbes’ 2025 rich list shows Max Verstappen still F1’s on‑track earnings king on $76m, with Lewis Hamilton’s record Ferrari salary and new champion Lando Norris’s bonus-fuelled payday revealing how the sport’s cost‑capped era is minting superstar fortunes.
After a winless 2025 left Lewis Hamilton describing his first Ferrari season as a "nightmare", team boss Fred Vasseur has doubled down on his support for Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, insisting their blunt public criticism is a "positive dynamic" that must drive the Scuderia’s rebuild.
Hours after saying goodbye to Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas was already strapped into a Cadillac seat fit. Inside the Finn’s rapid switch, and how his experience is being built into the American team’s push towards its crucial first 2026 test.
At sunset in Abu Dhabi, Aston Martin rookie Jak Crawford topped the post‑season test as new world champion Lando Norris returned to duty, helping Pirelli shape F1’s 2026 tyres in a crucial day of mule cars and young guns.
At Yas Marina, Pirelli pulled the covers off its 2026 F1 tyre range: slimmer 18-inch rubber, five slick compounds and bold chequered-flag branding designed to define Formula 1’s next rules revolution.
After a winless 2025 and a bruising Abu Dhabi finale, Charles Leclerc has warned Ferrari that F1’s 2026 rules reset is a “now or never” moment – a four‑year window that could define both his future and the Scuderia’s.
At Yas Marina, F1’s first real-world taste of 2026 came via mule cars, slimmer Pirellis – and an artificial 300km/h ceiling on the straights. Inside the test that’s quietly shaping the next era.
Under Yas Marina’s floodlights, Lando Norris finally became champion, Max Verstappen won the race – and the 2025 finale quietly exorcised the ghosts of Abu Dhabi 2021. Here’s who really won, who lost, and what this title decider told us about F1’s future.
Helmut Marko’s looming retirement tears at the foundations of Red Bull’s Verstappen-era dominance – and turns the triple champion’s long‑term future into the biggest question of F1’s new power age.
In early 2023 McLaren were lost in the midfield. By Abu Dhabi 2025 they were back‑to‑back constructors’ champions with Lando Norris crowned drivers’ king – all while walking the tightrope of a Norris‑Piastri title fight.
The 2025 season is done, but F1 stays under the Yas Marina lights for one more day. Here’s every driver in the Abu Dhabi post‑season test – and how teams are already using it as their first real step into the 2026 rules era.
Under the Yas Marina floodlights, Lando Norris kept his head while the world closed in – a measured third place behind Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri enough to deliver McLaren’s first drivers’ crown since 2008 after a nerve-shredding Abu Dhabi finale.
Max Verstappen dominated the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix yet lost the 2025 F1 title to Lando Norris by two points – and insisted he has “no regrets” after what he calls the best season of his career.
