2025 Season Megathread

It's not one of those seasons that will live long in the memory (yet.)

At least the title battle is relatively close but the two protagonists aren't especially exciting in terms of 'aura' and 'charisma'.   Although that may be due to my distaste for the Lando propaganda, both positive and negative.  You get half of the F1 community fangirling for him and the other half mocking him.   I do find that abit tiresome as most of it feels unimaginative. 

Ferrari being Ferrari is very Ferrari. Mercedes turning up at some races and looking like they're on their holidays at others is also the theme of the last few years.   I've been minorly interested in the Red Bull second seat but not enough to be fully invested in what happens with it and I didn't expect Max to leave so the drama of the first seat wasn't exciting neither. Horner being booted mid-season was a little surprising but i'm not expecting much to change for the rest of this year operationally.
The 'rookies' thing that they've been pushing this year is also draining. Lawson and Colapinto have already had like half a season so I can't see them as rookies.   I remember in 2012, they had the 6 World Champions agenda that they were pushing.. That felt exciting, the rookies thing doesn't.

The midfield being close is something I do like. The teams that are 5th to 9th (Williams, Aston, RB, Haas and Sauber) feel quite close together. If they were closer to the front 4, then that'd be even better but at least it's different teams getting points every week.
Alpine not taking the season seriously is abit disappointing though.  Gasly's doing okay but only using one competent driver isn't going to propel them back into the midfield and their insistence on retaining dross makes a mockery of the integrity of the sport.

I have to say that I think this might be as good as it gets for a few years though. I'm not feeling good about the new regs changes but I might be wrong.