Previewing F1's 2025 launch season
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We look ahead to Formula 1’s imminent launch season in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Scott Mitchell-Malm and Ben Anderson join Edd Straw to explain how the time between now and the first day of testing in Bahrain on February 26 will play out.
The centrepiece of launch season is the F1 75 event at London’s O2 Arena on February 18, where all 10 teams will have a slot on stage to reveal their livery. We explain what to expect from that, and debate whether it will live up to fan expectations.
We also explain what cars we might see appearing before them, and the restrictions that mean it’s difficult to launch a genuine 2025 car before the big event in London.
And with just a small window between F1 75 and freight leaving for Bahrain, we run through the teams that will be revealing the cars in the days before testing starts.
Finally, we each pick out which car - or cars - we’re most looking forward to seeing break cover.
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| 1:25.9 | The race is on and the weight is finally over. |
| 1:29.0 | This week we will finally get our first blips of a 2025 F1 car as launch season begins. |
| 1:34.6 | But why is this year so different? |
| 1:36.5 | And what should we expect from the much-vaunted F-1-75 launch event in London? |
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