ROUND 24: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX 2025
Circuit stats
- Circuit name: Yas Marina Circuit
- First Grand Prix: 2009
- Number of laps: 58
- Circuit Length: 5.281 km
- Race Distance: 306.183 km
- Lap record: 1:25.637 Max Verstappen (2021)
- 2024 winner: Lando Norris
Track Map
I gotta say that during Max’s resurgence I was seriously debating not renewing my subscription for next year. I was just bored of the entire sport even though everything is so close and it’s much more thrilling than those dominant seasons we’ve become used to.
I’m sort of excited for today’s event but I’m not 100% sure I’ll be along for the ride next year. You get maybe 6 interesting races, the rest is all just processions that take a couple of hours.
Next year is the biggest regulation change in decades. DRS will be gone. There’ll be another team on the grid, or two really with Audi. And the first year of a set of regulations is always crazy cool imo. Development race will be wild, we’ll have many different aero concepts at the start, the new engines will probably have reliability issues for a while…
Of all the times to stop watching, this one I can’t really understand. If course if what you want is tons of overtaking and wheel-to-wheel then there is no guarantees, but when was that ever guaranteed in F1?
I’m glad I don’t pay for it, I definitely wouldn’t have stuck around in 23 but hopefully the new regs don’t lead to the same thing happening again