A Trio of Sprints
Belgium in July saw the final F1 Sprint event of the first half of the season, and when the racing returns after the break there will be three further weekends of the shortened format to look forward to.
For the third year in a row, Austin will host a Sprint race when F1 rolls into Texas in October, and two weeks later there will again be an extra race on the schedule at Interlagos.
São Paulo is the only track to have hosted a Sprint race in every season since the format’s inception in 2021 and was the site of George’s first F1 win of any description a year later in 2022.
The final Sprint race of the year takes place in Qatar, which also featured on the 2023 and 2024 Sprint calendar.
With so much racing left to go, the extra 45 points on offer at these three weekends could make all the difference in the Constructors’ Championship.
500 Not Out
While even the best and most experienced F1 drivers might get to 300 or even 400 Grand Prix race starts in their career, it is highly unlikely any will get to 500.
But that is exactly what Mercedes can achieve with its Safety Car this season, with the United States Grand Prix in Austin set to be the 500th race for a Mercedes Safety Car in F1 history.
The first Three-Pointed Star Safety Car deployment came at the 1996 Belgian Grand Prix with the C 36 AMG, and since then an array of incredible machines have been used to fill the role of the most important jobs on the grid.
At Home in Singapore
While the British and Italian-based Grands Prix will already be ticked off by September, there will be one more home race for the team to celebrate in 2025.
Located just a few hundred kilometres from the headquarters of PETRONAS in Kuala Lumpur, the Singapore Grand Prix has become somewhat of a second home race for our Title and Technical Partner.
This year is the 15th anniversary season of our collaboration with PETRONAS, who have been with us every step of way since Mercedes rejoined F1 in 2010.
It is a relationship built on dedication and innovation and has yielded eight Constructors’ titles and seven Drivers’ titles to date, as well as 121 wins, 287 podiums, and 134 pole positions from 318 Grands Prix.
In 2024, to celebrate PETRONAS’ 50th anniversary, we ran a special emerald-green inspired livery for the race around Marina Bay.