On this day, 20 years ago, Fernando Alonso conquered the world 👑
At just 24, he dethroned Michael Schumacher and ended Ferrari’s dominance to become the youngest Formula 1 World Champion.
A day when a legend was crowned, and a new era began.
13 races. 0 podiums.
Lewis Hamilton has now gone longer than most before tasting champagne in Ferrari red.
He’s third on the all-time list for most races before a first Ferrari podium, a list no legend wants to be on. The wait continues…
Only THREE drivers in F1 history have scored points in 30+ consecutive Grands Prix:
1. Lewis Hamilton - 48 (2018-2020) & 33 (2016-2018)
2. Max Verstappen - 43 (2022-2024) & 31 (2024-2025)
3. Oscar Piastri - 31 (2024-2025)
The next-best active streak? Just 11, also by Hamilton.
McLaren have now taken SIX 1-2 finishes this season, their best since Alain Prost & Ayrton Senna’s iconic 1988 season, when they took TEN (from just 16 races!). 🧡
And with 11 races still to go… that record is under serious threat.
McLaren pulled off their third straight 1-2 finish, something they haven’t done in 27 years. 🧡
They’re the first team to do it in the ground effect era, and in the entire hybrid era, only one other team has managed it - Mercedes.
No Red Bull. No Ferrari. Let that sink in!
Oscar Piastri has now taken SIX wins in the 2025 #F1 season, the MOST by an Australian in a single year. 🇦🇺
Oscar Piastri - 6 (2025)
Jack Brabham - 5 (1960)
Alan Jones - 5 (1980)
Already a national legend, and it's only his third season.
12 races down, 12 to go.
It's race week! 🔥
Hulkenberg spent 19 laps running in the top-three at Silverstone, more than he had managed across the previous eight years combined (11).
Nico Hulkenberg became Formula 1’s oldest first-time podium finisher in over 50 years.
At 37 years, 10 months and 17 days, he’s the oldest since George Follmer, who was 39 years, 3 months and 2 days old when he finished on the podium at the 1973 Spanish Grand Prix.
Red Bull now has 50 poles in the turbo-hybrid era.
Only Mercedes has more... and by a mile.
They’ve taken 125. That’s 2.5x more!
Gasly in Q3:
🔹 2025 - 7 times in 12 races
🔹 2024 - 7 times in 24 races
And Alpine are last in the standings, but not because of him.
Alonso has now outqualified Lance Stroll 50 times.
Only one driver has been outqualified by Alonso more often - Felipe Massa (58 times).
Different era, same Alonso.
Fernando Alonso has now outqualified Lance Stroll for the 24th race in a row.
The last time Stroll started ahead of him?
Exactly a year ago, Silverstone 2024.
Lewis Hamilton has two wins at Silverstone from outside the top-3:
🔹 P4 in 2008 (McLaren)
🔹 P6 in 2014 (Mercedes)
And both those victories came on 6th July.
Today is 6th July and he starts outside the top-3. 👀
Isack Hadjar remains the only rookie to have avoided a Q1 elimination in 2025 so far.
The others in that club?
Norris, Piastri, Hamilton, Leclerc, Verstappen, Russell and Albon. Some serious names. 👏
Another day, another milestone for Fernando Alonso. 🇪🇸
Lewis Hamilton has now qualified inside the top-five in four straight rounds.
A sharp turnaround after recording just two top-five starts in the first nine races of the season, including Sprints.
For the first time this season, Oscar Piastri will not start from the front row in back-to-back races.
The last time that happened was in Las Vegas and Qatar in 2024.
This is just the second time in Lando Norris’s career that he’s topped all three qualifying segments (Q1, Q2 and Q3). The first was in Australia earlier this year. 🇦🇺
Fun fact - The last seven times a driver has topped all three qualifying sessions, they’ve gone on to win the race.
Lando Norris’ pole margin of 0.521s is the biggest of his F1 career and McLaren’s largest in nearly 16 years.
The last time they secured a bigger gap was at the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in 2009, when Lewis Hamilton was 0.667s clear.
Lando Norris is now fifth on McLaren’s all-time pole list with 12 poles, moving ahead of Kimi Raikkonen. Only Senna, Hakkinen, Hamilton and Hunt have more.
Senna - 46
Hakkinen - 26
Hamilton - 26
Hunt - 14
Norris - 12
Lando Norris' DNF in Canada ended an incredible run for McLaren - 22 consecutive races without a single retirement, the longest streak in the team’s history.
Hard to believe that just eight years ago, they had 16 DNFs and 2 DNS in a 20-race season.
Wild how far they’ve come.
Each of Lando Norris’ last four DNFs has come from accidents or collisions:
❌ Canada 2025 – Collision
❌ Austria 2024 – Collision
❌ Miami Sprint 2024 – Collision
❌ Las Vegas 2023 – Accident
His last mechanical DNF? Sao Paulo 2022.
At just 18, Kimi Antonelli has ticked off these #F1 milestones in record time:
✅ Youngest to lead a race
✅ Youngest to take pole (in any format)
✅ Youngest to set a fastest lap
✅ 2nd-youngest to score points
✅ 3rd-youngest to start a race
✅ 3rd-youngest to get a podium
📊 Eight of the youngest 50 #F1 podiums by average age have occurred in 2025.
Every single one featured either Oscar Piastri or Kimi Antonelli.
A generational shift is well underway.
For a team fighting to stay ahead, Red Bull have some serious internal issues to sort out.
McLaren scored 116 points across the Imola, Monaco, and Spain races, the third-highest total by a team in a triple header.
🥇 Red Bull (2023) – 125 pts (2 Sprints)
🥈 Mercedes (2020) – 121 pts (0 Sprints)
🥉 McLaren (2025) – 116 pts (0 Sprints)
Racing Bulls were the fourth-highest scoring team in the triple header with 20 points.
They scored more points than both Mercedes (18) and Williams (17).
The last time Red Bull scored 1 point or less in a race where both drivers finished was 3,318 days ago, at the 2016 Russian GP.
Ricciardo and Kvyat finished 11th and 15th that day. Just four days later, Kvyat was replaced by Max Verstappen.
McLaren have now taken four consecutive double podiums. 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇲🇨🇪🇸
The last time they did that? 25 years ago, when Hakkinen and Coulthard did it from France to Hungary 2000.
