F1 2025 season: Schedule, standings, sprints and how to watch
The 2025 Formula One season is two races in and McLaren have begun the season where they finished last: with two victories in two grands prix. Lando Norris won the first of those in Australia whilst his team-mate Oscar Piastri triumphed in China.
It was a bittersweet weekend for Lewis Hamilton who took sprint race victory in Shanghai but was then excluded from the grand prix classification, along with his Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc, after finishing sixth.
When is the next F1 race of the 2025 season?
The third round of the 2025 F1 season is the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix that takes place at Suzuka. That runs from Friday April 4 until Sunday April 6.
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