13 numbers that tell F1’s 2025 story so far

As the week begins, the Formula 1 grid looks ahead to one last week of quiet, before the season resumes next week with the Dutch Grand Prix.

But what a season it has been already.

To help set the stage for the second half of the 2025 campaign, here are 13 numbers that tell the story of the season to date.

0.543 seconds

We start with the most recent race, the Hungarian Grand Prix.

At the Hungaroring on that Saturday, Charles Leclerc captured pole position with a lap of 1:15.372, just 0.026 seconds ahead of Oscar Piastri and 0.041 seconds ahead of Lando Norris in third.

But most notable was the gap from Leclerc in first, to Isack Hadjar in tenth. With Hadjar posting a lap time of 1:15.915, that meant the difference between P1 and P10 was just 0.543 seconds.

Marking the closest top-ten in the 75-year history of the sport.

That gap eclipsed the benchmark of 0.577 seconds set twice, first set at Interlagos in 2003. That season, Rubens Barrichello took pole position with a lap of 1:13.807, while Fernando Alonso qualified tenth with a lap of 1:14.384.

The Hungaroring played host to the second time the gap from P1 to P10 in qualifying was just 0.577 seconds, back during the 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix. That year, Lewis Hamilton took pole position with a lap time of 1:16.609, 0.577 seconds ahead of Nico Hülkenberg in P10.

Some history in Hungary this season, to highlight just how narrow the margins are in F1 this year.

9

Speaking about how narrow the gaps are in F1 this year, nine points are all that separate Drivers’ Championship leader Oscar Piastri from his teammate Lando Norris atop the standings.

For comparison, after 14 races a year ago Max Verstappen held a 78-point lead over Norris. Verstappen held a lead of 145 points over then-teammate Sergio Pérez after 14 races in 2023, and Verstappen led Pérez by 93 points after 14 races in 2022.

The nine points separating Piastri and Norris are the closest gap after 14 races since 2021, when Verstappen led Hamilton 226.5 to 221.5 following the Italian Grand Prix.

And we know how close that season ended up …

10

Ten reflects the fact that all ten teams have scored at least a point over the first 14 races.

This was not the case last year, as Sauber did not break into the points until the Qatar Grand Prix, the penultimate race of the season. Nor was it the case back in 2021, when Haas went the entire season without scoring a point.

But this year, all ten teams have finished in the points already.

19

Building off the previous point, nearly the entire grid has secured at least one point this season. 19 of the 21 drivers who have participated in a race this season have scored at least one point. The only two who have not finished in the points? Alpine’s young pairing of Jack Doohan and Franco Colapinto.

Doohan began the year in the seat alongside Pierre Gasly, but he was replaced by 2024 super-sub Colapinto following the Miami Grand Prix. However, neither driver has delivered points for Alpine yet.

96%

So far this season, Red Bull has scored 194 points.

Max Verstappen has scored 187 of those, accounting for 96.4% of the team’s points this year.

It has often been the case that Verstappen has produced the bulk of Red Bull’s points each season. Last year he scored 437 of the team’s 589 points, and during their dominant 2023 campaign Verstappen recorded 575 of the team’s 860 points.

But this year only seven points have come from another driver, the seven added by Yuki Tsunoda since joining Red Bull ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix. A rather impressive mark for Verstappen, but not the most impressive in this category …

100%

That brings us to Alpine and Pierre Gasly.

Gasly has scored all 20 of Alpine’s points this year, punctuated by a sixth-place finish at the British Grand Prix.

It has been a difficult season for the Enstone-based operation. Despite finishing a surprising sixth in 2024, Alpine struggled to start the year, replacing Doohan following the Miami Grand Prix with 2024 Williams super-sub Colapinto.

But neither young driver has managed to deliver a single point for Alpine.

The driver switch is not the only big change Alpine has endured this year. Team Principal Oliver Oakes resigned following the Miami Grand Prix, as his brother faces criminal charges in the United Kingdom. Senior Advisor and F1 veteran Flavio Briatorie assumed those duties as well.

All the while, Gasly has found ways to drag the A525 into the points whenever possible. Alpine’s 2025 challenger has consistently been one of the slower cars on the grid, and while one-lap pace has flattered the team at times, their race pace is a completely different story.

Making what Gasly has done all the more impressive.

238

238 times Nico Hülkenberg had started a Formula 1 race, and on all of those occasions, his day ended with him watching the podium celebration.

On the 239th time, he finally got to participate in it.

Hülkenberg’s maiden F1 podium came at the British Grand Prix, in his 239th start in F1. It marked the longest wait for a podium for a driver in the history of the sport.

Hulkenberg’s race starts prior to the British Grand Prix

23

Returning to the battle between Piastri and Norris, 23 represents the biggest gap in the championship fight between the McLaren teammates we have seen this season.

And it came after the opening race of the year.

Norris captured the win in the Australian Grand Prix to begin the season, while Piastri finished ninth. While Piastri’s result came after he refused to give up after sliding off the racing line and into the grass — reversing his MCL39 to get back onto the track before he could go forward again — it left him 23 points behind his teammate in the standings.

That gap closed to just ten points after the Chinese Grand Prix, when Piastri finished second in the F1 Sprint race (with Norris in eighth) and then won the Grand Prix (as Norris finished second). Things remained tight between the pair until the Canadian Grand Prix, when it grew to 22 points.

On that Sunday in Montreal, the highly anticipated on-track fight between the two teammates materialized. As they battled for fourth in the closing stages of the Canadian Grand Prix, Norris made contact with the rear of Piastri’s MCL39, knocking himself out of the race.

But while Piastri enjoyed a 22-point lead as the grid left Montreal, Norris has closed the gap again, winning three of the four races since the Canadian Grand Prix. As you might imagine, the other race was one by Piastri.

McLaren locked out the front row with Piastri and Norris in all four races.

24

Putting aside the top of the Constructors’ Championship standings — we’ll talk about McLaren in a moment — a fascinating fight for second is shaping up between Ferrari and Mercedes.

Right now, Ferrari has the edge in that battle, leading the Silver Arrows by just 24 points. But with bragging rights and millions of dollars on the line in this fight, do not sleep on the battle for second down the stretch.

And if Red Bull can get more production from the second seat alongside Verstappen, maybe keep an eye on them in this fight. Right now, Red Bull trails Ferrari by 66 points, but much can change over the final few months of the season.

35

Now we can talk about the fight for the midfield.

After 14 races, Williams leads the way in that battle, as they sit fifth in the Constructors’ Championship standings with 70 points. But the four teams in this fight are not separated by much. Thanks to a strong result at the Hungarian Grand Prix, Aston Martin is now in sixth with 52 points, just one point ahead of Sauber.

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That means the gap from Williams in fifth to Haas in ninth is just 35 points.

If that seems like a huge gap, just remember what the team in tenth place did a year ago. After the Belgian Grand Prix last season (the 14th race of the schedule), Alpine had only 11 points. But they finished the year with 65, up in sixth place, thanks to a dramatic double podium at the São Paulo Grand Prix.

Again, much can change over the second half of the season.

284, 275, and 559

We close out with a look at the dominant team and drivers on the grid this season, McLaren.

Building off their run to a Constructors’ Championship last season, McLaren has run away from the pack this year. Right now, they have 559 points in their account, putting them a whopping 299 points ahead of second-place Ferrari. For comparison’s sake, after 14 races during their dominant 2023 season, Red Bull had 583 points, and a 310-point lead over second-place Ferrari.

That puts McLaren’s 2025 on par with Red Bull’s 2023, at least to date.

Then there are the two drivers, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris. Piastri leads the Drivers’ Championship race with 284 points, nine points ahead of Norris’ 275.

Ferrari has scored 260 points this year.