After a three-way title battle on the 2025 Method 1 finale in Abu Dhabi, McLaren’s Lando Norris secured his first world championship by simply two factors over four-time and reigning F1 champ Max Verstappen, with Norris’s McLaren teammate, Oscar Piastri, 11 factors additional again in third.
Factors make prizes in F1, so does Norris’s 2025 crown make him the standout driver of the season? Or did Verstappen’s relentless chase down of the McLaren duo, together with six wins within the remaining 9 grands prix, put him high of the pile? RACER needs you to tell us your star of the season by voting for the 2025 Method 1 Driver of the Yr.
Your vote counts, and possibly it isn’t for Norris or Verstappen? Did Piastri’s breakout season transfer the needle for you? How about George Russell taking his Mercedes to a pair of GP wins? Or Charles Leclerc hustling a less-than-stellar Ferrari SF-25 to an unbelievable Hungary pole?
Perhaps it’s an F1 rookie who impressed you probably the most? Anybody for Isack Hadjar placing Racing Bulls on the Zandvoort podium? Or maybe it’s Carlos Sainz and his impressed late-season surge pulling Williams away from the midfield pack?
It’s your name and your votes, and we will’t wait to search out out who comes out on high.
Voting will stay open for 72 hours, and we’ll be asserting your 2025 Method 1 Driver of the Yr on January 15.
Plus, coming quickly: vote to your 2025 NTT IndyCar Collection and NASCAR drivers of the yr, and sports activities automobile marque of the yr.
