We all hate repeats on TV but a re-run of the 2024 F1 season in 2025 would be fantastic, for us and Netflix.
F1 is now more popular than it’s ever been. Truthfully, it’s thanks in large part due to Netflix, which has until now done the impossible by transforming otherwise boring seasons into gripping, edge-of-the-seat soap dramas with its Drive to Survive series.
3 JAN 2025
Tom Jervis
AutoExpress

The series’ storyboard artists will have an easy job when reflecting on how to cover the 2024 season, as fans were blessed with not just two drivers’ title contenders, but also three teams fighting for the constructors’ trophy – something we hadn’t seen in a very long while and that I (and the entire F1 fanbase) desperately want repeated in 2025.

With McLaren, Ferrari and Red Bull all battling it out until the end of the 2024 campaign, what was one of the most intriguing years in recent times could just be just an appetiser for something even more exhilarating in 2025. A regulations shake-up and Cadillac joining the grid in 2026 are just the icing on the cake.

‘Edge-of-the-seat soap dramas’;

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/formul...ntastic-us-and


‘That’s how you get to the front’ – Mercedes address key F1 2024 weakness
14 Jan 2025
Michelle Foster
PlanetF1.com

After a tumultuous 2024 season, Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin admits the Brackley squad were “not quick enough” in updating the W15 which put them on the back foot. “The whole thing of development in Formula 1 is fixing problems, and can you fix them quicker than your competitors. And that’s how you get to the front,” he said.

“If you look at when we brought our updates compared to our main competitors, we were often bringing our big package a couple of races later. But if we brought it earlier, it would be a smaller package. So the fact is, on average, over a season, we’ve not been quick enough when we deliver an update, we had a few races where we were competitive, the teams were trying to beat them, bring theirs, and they moved back ahead.”

“Not quick enough”;

https://www.planetf1.com/news/merced...-2024-weakness


Lando Norris: McLaren’s overstated pace advantage in F1 2024 a ‘compliment’
16 Jan 2026
Taylor Powling
Motorsport Week

Asked whether he viewed the 2024 season as what might have been, Norris told The Race: “I think that’s quite obvious. Not as many [spurned chances] as people think. And people in general think it’s been a lot worse than it’s been, that we’ve been a lot quicker than we have been.”

“It’s a compliment because it shows how far we’ve come, and I’m proud that in those days, whether Singapore or Zandvoort, I’ve still been the one that’s there and making the most of those opportunities.”

‘What might have been’;

https://www.motorsportweek.com/2025/...-a-compliment/


Red Bull threatened to turn Sergio Perez into a ‘show pony’ if he didn’t leave for 2025
17 Jan 2025
David Comerford
F1 Oversteer

Perez kept repeating that he had a contract in his media appearances as he faced constant questions around his future. It was clear that Red Bull regarded his performance levels as unacceptable. Red Bull’s threat implicitly made it clear that Perez’s position at the team was untenable. The relationship could have become toxic if it continued, which wouldn’t have benefitted either party – particularly when the driver was entitled to pay off anyway.

“Perez was constantly deriding the speculation as fiction and insisting he had a contract,” Mitchell-Malm said. “After his lap-one retirement in the Abu Dhabi season finale, though, Perez’s tune finally changed. He admitted there would be discussions to resolve his situation. “These December negotiations included Red Bull making it clear to Perez that if, he didn’t agree to move aside, his contract would be honoured in 2025 by making him a show pony and glorified reserve driver.”

But there’s also a theory that Perez’s race engineer made things ‘ridiculously difficult’. Viaplay commentator Nelson Valkenburg noticed Hugh Bird repeatedly making judgement errors during qualifying sessions, which were one of the driver’s biggest problems in 2024.

‘Turn Sergio Perez into a show pony’;

https://www.f1oversteer.com/news/red...eave-for-2025/


Sergio Perez’s 2024 F1 season made ‘ridiculously difficult’ by one Red Bull staff member
14 Jan 2025
Rory Mitchell
F1 Oversteer

Discussing Perez’s season at Red Bull in 2024, journalist Nelson Valkenburg believe there was one staff member who made his life ‘ridiculously difficult’ throughout the year when speaking to RacingNews365.nl.

Sergio Perez’s engineer made life ‘ridiculously difficult’ for Mexican: During qualifying for the Sao Paulo GP, Bird mistimed the final run in Q2 which saw Perez drop out and qualify in P13 despite having the pace for a top ten. Valkenburg believes this was a trend that repeated throughout the year.

“Partly it was in the car. He is often four-tenths off Max Verstappen, but now there were ten cars in between in one go,” said Valkenburg. “But in part I also think his racing engineer made it ridiculously difficult for him in qualifying. You can name five times when he was not helped by his pit box. He didn’t have enough time for another lap, and they just expected him to do the same as Verstappen.”

‘One staff member who made his life ‘ridiculously difficult’ throughout the year’;

https://www.f1oversteer.com/news/ser...-staff-member/


'Perez is an attractive choice for Alpine over Colapinto'
23 Dec 2024
Toby Nixon
GPblog.com

Montoya reveals: 'I heard that it wasn't friendly': Montoya first explained some of the details behind Perez's Red Bull exit, revealing that he was actually surprised Perez and Red Bull ended their relationship so soon.

“I tried very hard thinking that they were not going to get rid of him because when they met with the board and saw the numbers, they would have held out for a year and, in the end, removed him at the end of that year," he began on the Colombian AS. "I imagine that the number had to be very high for them to convince him. What I heard from gossip is that it (the departure) was not so friendly,” Montoya reveals.

The multiple-time Indy 500 winner continued: “The story of the sabbatical year must be part of the negotiation so that Checo does not close his career. Publically, it appears that he is going to take a year off to look for options for the following year, that is part of what they have to say," Montoya believes.

“(The departure) was not so friendly”;

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/32033...or-alpine.html


EXCLUSIVE: Aston Martin target Max Verstappen in £1BILLION deal for Red Bull's four-time world champion to turn Formula One on its head - after signing up £20m-a-year star designer Adrian Newey
• Aston Martin are telling potential sponsors that Max Verstappen will join them
• The Dutch four-time world champion’s contract could be worth up to £1billion
• It deal would almost certainly include equity in the Silverstone-based team
16 Jan 2025
JONATHAN MCEVOY
MailOnline

A source with knowledge of the situation said of Slack, Aston’s managing director, commercial and marketing: ‘Jefferson, or Jeff as others know him, has been going around saying Max will be joining Aston Martin. It may be a ploy, adding extra value to the deal he wants to do, but bringing Max in also makes perfect sense.

‘£1BILLION’;

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ian-Newey.html


Max Verstappen’s team issue blunt response to Aston Martin speculation
17 Jan 2025
Dan Lawrence
Motorsport Week

GP Blog reached out to Verstappen’s team to comment and a short reply was given: “That’s nice.”
This is in keeping with the Dutchman’s mentality towards a move to Aston Martin, having told Viaplay last year that “I haven’t thought about [Aston Martin] at all.”

“That’s nice”;

https://www.motorsportweek.com/2025/...n-speculation/