F1 has placed on one other must-see present this season, with an interesting championship battle, ultra-close margins and surprising outcomes all that includes. Because the drivers and groups get pleasure from their summer season break, we run by way of some telling statistics from the marketing campaign up to now forward of what seems to be set to be an edge-of-your-seat 10-round run to see out the yr…
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We begin with the smallest pole position-winning margin, which got here on the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. After Lando Norris crashed out in Q3, it was Max Verstappen who snatched pole for Purple Bull over the opposite McLaren of Oscar Piastri by 10 thousandths of a second.
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Saudi Arabia has not been the one shut Qualifying session this season, with loads of examples throughout the primary 14 rounds highlighting how small the sector unfold now could be. Final day out in Hungary, for instance, simply 0.126s coated first to sixth on the grid.
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That Hungaroring session additionally introduced us the closest top-10 Qualifying classification within the 75-year historical past of the game, with little greater than half a second masking Charles Leclerc on pole to Isack Hadjar in tenth.
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Whereas McLaren have constantly led the way in which in 2025, Norris and Piastri are offering loads of leisure. On race day in Hungary, the one-stopping Briton crossed the road lower than a second forward of his two-stopping staff mate, who had placed on a late cost.
It goes down because the closest end to a race this season that didn’t happen behind the Security Automotive – Mercedes driver George Russell took the chequered flag 0.228s forward of Verstappen on the Canadian Grand Prix, however they had been following Bernd Maylander on the time.
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Piastri, Norris and Verstappen are all on 4 Grand Prix pole positions apiece this yr, with the aforementioned Russell and Ferrari’s Leclerc taking one every. It means 5 drivers from 4 completely different groups have began a race on the entrance of the pack.
If we embody Dash weekends, the variety of drivers will increase to seven: Lewis Hamilton reaching his first pole for Ferrari throughout Dash Qualifying on the Chinese language Grand Prix and rookie Kimi Antonelli shocking the sector on the Miami Grand Prix.
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With regards to podium finishes, seven drivers from 5 completely different groups have reached the podium up so far, together with emotional firsts for Antonelli in Canada and Kick Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg – on what marked his 239th begin – in Britain.
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Much more drivers have led a race at some stage. Piastri comfortably heads the record over staff mate Norris, adopted by Verstappen, Leclerc, Russell, Antonelli and Hamilton, with Williams’ Alex Albon additionally logging a lap on the entrance of the sector throughout the Chinese language Grand Prix.
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After 14 rounds, the hole between Piastri and Norris in the Drivers’ Championship is simply 9 factors, with 10 Grands Prix (together with three Dash weekends) nonetheless to come back.
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Underlining how aggressive the game has grow to be, all 10 groups managed to get factors on the board between Australia and Hungary – each squad scoring on at the very least 5 completely different weekends and recording a greatest end of at the very least sixth place.
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Persevering with alongside that theme, of the 21 drivers to start out a Grand Prix this season, 19 have gotten factors on the board. Solely Jack Doohan (who contested the primary six rounds with Alpine) and Franco Colapinto (who took the Australian’s spot from the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix) are on zero.
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In an ebbing and flowing championship battle, the hole between the McLaren drivers has by no means been better than 23 factors, when Norris took an early lead by way of his victory and Piastri’s dramatic spin from second place on the rain-hit Australian Grand Prix opener.
Piastri turned the tables throughout the following few rounds to maneuver 22 factors clear leaving Canada, the place the McLarens clashed and Norris retired, however his benefit is again beneath double figures due to his staff mate’s run of three victories on the final 4 Grands Prix.
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Past that front-running battle, there’s lots to play for elsewhere, notably in relation to the scrap that’s creating for fifth place in the Groups’ Championship. Because it stands, 35 factors cowl Williams, Aston Martin, Kick Sauber, Racing Bulls and Haas.
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