Patch v1.25 will begin rolling out at 10am UTC on Monday, September 7. Please ensure your PC or console is connected to the internet in order to receive the update.

v1.25 Patch Notes

Highlights

• Addition of the 2026 F2™ Championship in game, including all cars and drivers.

• Sports Update for F1 cars and drivers: Visual updates and sponsor changes in the 2026 Formula 1® season have been included.

• Added a number of Special Edition Liveries for 2026 F1 cars. Keep your eyes on the News over the next month and collect them from your Mail in the game!

• Updated a number of Team Principals in various locations in the game.

• To better reflect the 2026 regulations, Boost Mode with limited deploy power is now available in wet conditions.

• To better reflect the regulations, Straight Mode and DRS will now only remain active when the driver's throttle input is above 90%.

• An "Overtake Enabled" Race Control message will now show at the correct times during race using 2026 F1 cars. This has also been added to the UDP output.

Cars & Tracks

• Fixed an issue on certain Sponsor Liveries where the driver number was overlapping a sponsor logo.

• Updated the Rev light pattern on Franco Colapinto's steering wheel.

• Raised the position of the 2026 Red Bull steering wheel to match the real car.

• The Front Suspension on the 2026 Aston Martin and Haas cars now appear correctly attached to the wheel.

• Corrected some of the trackside barriers at Australia, which had previously been on loan from Austria.

Career

• Updated the tyre allocation for several 2026 F1 Race Weekends.

• Fixed an issue where the amount of available Pitcoin was not shown when accessing the Store within Career mode.

• Fixed an issue on the Driver Career Team Select screen, so the Recognition Values shown will now always be correct.

• In Driver Career mode, completing an F2 season will now give you bonus Recognition when you start your first season in F1.

• Fixed an issue which was preventing Accolades from being shown correctly when starting a Driver Career with an Official F2 driver.

Wheels & Controllers

• Slight adjustment for Wheel users, ensuring a better match of control inputs to physics output during rapid input range changes.

• Fixed a stability issue which could affect users with both Moza and Simucube peripherals.

• Fixed an issue affecting certain hardware where Force Feedback calls could prevent players from achieving higher frame rates.

• Improved control schemes for existing Simagic hardware.

• Additional support for Simagic P500 & P700 Pedals, Neo X Hub, Zeus Formula, GT and Sport Steering Wheels.

Misc

• Various UI and Stability Improvements.

Check-in with our ‘Engineers’

Whether it’s on the EA Forums, r/F1Game on Reddit, or across our social media pages, thank you for making your voice heard by contributing to the F1® 25 discussion so far.

Be sure to keep an eye on the Community-Raised Issues thread. This post on the EA Forums serves as the go-to place to stay up-to-date on some of what the development team is working on in relation to bugs and issues raised by you, the community. This thread will be updated regularly between patches. To be notified of these changes, sign-in to the EA Forums and tap the bell in the top-right corner of the post.

If you would like to take the time to log a bug, please do so on our dedicated Technical Issues & Bug Reports page on the EA Forums, where a member of our team will get back to you. You can find the best bug reporting process by clicking here.

We also have a number of support guides for F1® 25 including a PC Troubleshooting Guide and tips for setting up F1® 25 to work in Virtual Reality and Triple Screens on PC. These can be found in the F1® Game Info Hub on EA Forums.

To keep up-to-date on all the other F1® 25 news, be sure to follow us across social media. Links to these profiles and other useful information can be found here.