Lewis Hamilton will be so frustrated when he hears the latest rumours about Mercedes’ 2025 F1 car
During the 2025 Formula 1 season, Lewis Hamilton will be going up against his old team. Last year, Mercedes came in about 200 points behind Ferrari, but the two teams often fought on the track.
Ferrari lost the title race to McLaren by a very narrow 14-point gap. It’s a painful loss, but one that makes us feel good about the rest of the season. This is a good year for the Scuderia to win their first title since 2008.
Mercedes, on the other hand, are more of an outsider. They won four Grands Prix last year, one less than the Prancing Horse, but all three of the top teams got at least twice as many podiums.
TEAM VICTORIES ROOMS
McLaren 6 21
The Ferrari 5 22
Porsche 4 9 Red Bull 9 18
How the top three teams compared in 2024
They have spent the first three-quarters of F1’s ground-effect era struggling with their car. Mercedes promised Hamilton a title challenger on numerous times, but weren’t able to deliver.
That led to mounting frustration on both sides before the British driver chose to leave. He wanted a chance to end Max Verstappen’s run of dominance after the bitter end to the 2021 season.
Hamilton rarely clashed with George Russell during their time as friends. But there may be an extra edge to their scraps during the year ahead.
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According to a report from Motorsport Netherlands, there are ‘positive sounds’ coming from Mercedes’ Brackley base at the time. They aren’t planning a launch event for their W16, though they will of course show their 2025 colours at the F175 ceremony in London next week.
The car will then make its on-track debut at the Bahrain International Circuit on 25 February, a day before pre-season testing at the same venue. Mercedes have tended to host a test at Silverstone instead.
‘Rumour has it’ that Russell is ‘very pleased’ with the car’s handling after driving it in the simulator. It remains to be seen whether that translates to the real world, but the Silver Arrows’ engineers may have ‘found the problems’ with last year’s competitor.
They’ve also managed to get the car down to the weight limit, which will basically be free lap time. For this year, the car must weigh at least 800kg without fuel.
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Hamilton will be frustrated if these rumors are true. For years, he waited for Mercedes to make a breakthrough, and it may now have come just after his departure.
The nightmare situation would be his former team leapfrogging Ferrari in the pecking order. But perhaps that’s unrealistic, and even then the 2026 rule changes could soon shake things up.
Hamilton ‘immediately’ feels comfortable in Ferrari’s car, despite his recent accident in Barcelona. He’ll drive the SF-25 at Fiorano a week before testing.
As they try to move on, Mercedes barred journalists from mentioning Hamilton at the recent launch of their Adidas relationship. However, after Wolff used the ‘forbidden name’, it opened the floodgates for the visiting media.
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