F1 Power Rankings: Who looks fit to challenge Verstappen? Who is keeping cards close to their chest?
The stars of F1 have had their time on the test track before the season revs up for round one in Melbourne. We take a look at the early driver power rankings ahead of the Australian Grand Prix
Four-times world champion Max Verstappen faces the toughest challenge to his supremacy since he famously locked horns with Lewis Hamilton, with McLaren’s Lando Norris and the Ferrari pair of Hamilton and Charles Leclerc set to issue big threats in 2025.
With the F1 grid preparing to arrive in Melbourne for next week’s season-opening Australian grand prix, CODE Sports has crunched the numbers from preseason testing and looked at all the moves in the offseason to come up with the 2025 F1 driver Power Rankings.
While Red Bull’s Verstappen holds top spot, last week’s three-day testing in Bahrain indicate an evenly contested year ahead with question marks aplenty and speculation some teams like McLaren were keeping their cards very close to their chest before racing officially begins.
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