Qualifying was the weakest aspect of Hamilton’s driving in 2024, losing the head-to-head 19–5 to George Russell. Hamilton is expected to get a chance to drive the 2025 Ferrari F1 car on 19 February following the team’s launch.

Italy could come to a standstill on March 16th, Emerson Fittipaldi predicting the “whole” of the country will stop to watch Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari debut. Hamilton will spend his 19th season in Formula 1 as a Ferrari driver having signed a multi-year deal with the Scuderia even before the first race of 2024.

It can also suit the promoters. Zandvoort’s decision to stop hosting F1 after 2026 points to the pressures — and costs — involved in staging a race. Spa looked in serious doubt just a few years ago, and while the interest from the local stakeholders has certainly taken an uplift since then, a couple of off years may actually suit the track.

We're a week into 2025, and with preseason testing still seven weeks away, ESPN unpacks the storylines that will define Formula 1 this year.

The Lewis Hamilton era begins at Ferrari but can it be a Formula 1 title-winning year for the Maranello outfit?

The first time Hamilton dons the famous red Ferrari colors and gets behind the wheel of one of its F1 cars will be the moment he has longed for throughout his career. It is also set to be a relatively low-key event.

So it was perhaps fitting that as the constructors' trophy was paraded through McLaren HQ there was a nod to the seven-time world champion who now drives for Ferrari following his

Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen took Formula 1 racing to a “more dangerous” level swith their antics in 2021, Vitantonio Liuzzi saying F1’s stewards are having to clamp down on that. Liuzzi is one of four former Formula 1 drivers on the stewards’ panel and the Italian rotates with the other three,