Coming in at 17th in Pit Debrief’s Driver Rankings for the 2025 F1 Season is Liam Lawson. In his first full year in the sport, the Kiwi was thrust headfirst into the Red Bull second-seat phenomenon – unforgiving and famously unkind to those not named Max Verstappen. Lawson’s season seemed defined by extremes. There were…
Pierre Gasly finished 19th in the F1 Abu Dhabi GP, bringing an end to one of his toughest seasons at Alpine. After missing FP1 as Paulo Aron drove his car, Gasly finished FP2 in P20 before improving to P17 in FP3. However, later, after being eliminated in Q1 of qualifying, Gasly was set to start…
In the final-lap showdown at the F1 Abu Dhabi GP, Ollie Bearman was flagged and subsequently penalised for a defensive move against Lance Stroll. This new sanction puts the #87 driver at 10 penalty points in total. The Stewards ruled that he made more than one change of direction while defending. Set to go into…
Zak Brown reviewed the journey which led championship winner Lando Norris to McLaren F1 and to his title campaign. The CEO of the Woking-based team, in fact, has been working with the young British talent ever before the beginning of his F1 career. Brown recalles the importance of Norris’s McLaren F1 path Norris, in fact,…
The F1 Abu Dhabi GP was not a walk in the park for Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli. After Qualifying P14, the Italian had a rough race and finished the last race of the season in P15. The weak race pace was not what the team had hoped for. Starting on the hard, the young Italian…
Liam Lawson’s F1 Abu Dhabi GP concluded with a P18 finish after receiving a five-second time penalty for driving erratically. The Racing Bulls driver struggled for pace throughout the race and battled on an unsuccessful strategy. Despite the challenging result, Racing Bulls secured P6 in the Constructors’ Championship. Lawson spent much of the race battling…
Red Bull’s Yuki Tsunoda was ranked 18th in Pit Debrief’s 2025 F1 Drivers’ Rankings. Tsunoda enjoyed a strong start to the season with Racing Bulls. Despite this, a promotion to Red Bull in Japan saw the young Japanese driver become the latest victim of the now infamous second Red Bull seat. Strong showings from Tsunoda…
Carlos Sainz rounded off his first F1 season as driver for Williams with a P13 in the F1 Abu Dhabi GP. It was an unfortunate point-less end to a spectacular season, during which the former Ferrari driver had managed to score two rather impressive podiums for the British team. Neither Williams driver managed to score…
19th in Pit Debrief’s Driver Rankings for the 2025 F1 season is Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll. It was another extremely underwhelming year for the Canadian driver. A great start to the season for Lance Stroll As the 2025 F1 season started, Aston Martin struggled for pace. However, in a chaotic Australian GP, great tyre…
Helmut Marko has revealed the reasoning behind his shock F1 departure from Red Bull at the end of this year’s Formula 1 season. The Austrian left the team earlier this week following the conclusion of the F1 Abu Dhabi GP, having served as an adviser to Red Bull Racing (and its sister teams) since its…
