Autosport magazine: F1 season review and the Top 50 drivers of 2025
Who would have thought, after the first few Formula 1 races of 2025, that the championship battle would go down to the 24th and final grand prix of the season? Not many, but this roller coaster campaign carried Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri to Abu Dhabi each withContinue Reading
Autosport Top 50 of 2025: #50 Connor Zilisch
Connor Zilisch did just about everything except win the title at the secondary level of NASCAR in 2025. The teenager was a rookie in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, but that didn’t stop him dominating the field. He won 10 races, including a summer stretch where he won seven of eight racesContinue Reading
Autosport Top 50 of 2025: #49 Ash Sutton
You’ll struggle to find anyone else in our top 50 with a worse second-half-of-the-season qualifying record than this four-time BTCC champion – which just emphasises what a fantastic racer Ash Sutton is.In his last season with Alliance Racing’s fourth-generation Ford Focus ST, he by hook or by crook remained aheadContinue Reading
Autosport Top 50 of 2025: #48 Oliver Bearman
Much was expected from Oliver Bearman after his stellar debut substituting for Carlos Sainz at Ferrari in Saudi Arabia the previous season, a drive so confident and assured that it masked the two rather less auspicious ones for Haas later in the season.His full-time rookie year also provided highs andContinue Reading
Autosport Top 50 of 2025: #47 Lewis Hamilton
Much hype accompanied Lewis Hamilton’s move to Ferrari this season, but any hopes that Maranello could carry forward its strong late-2024 form into the new season were quickly scuppered.That meant a fourth successive season of angst and self-doubt as Hamilton’s year dissolved after the high point of the sprint winContinue Reading
Autosport Top 50 of 2025: #46 Luke Browning
Whatever the reason behind Luke Browning’s bewildering drop-off in form over the final two events in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, it should not detract from an otherwise excellent Formula 2 rookie campaign with Hitech GP. And he still ended up only just behind the experienced runner-up Jak Crawford and even-more-experiencedContinue Reading
Autosport Top 50 of 2025: #45 Rafael Camara
No one expected the 20-year-old Brazilian to clean up in Formula 3 this year as effectively as he did. After all, no one does that in F3, and Rafael Camara had needed to pull out all the stops to ease away from a mid-season challenge from fellow Ferrari protege TuukkaContinue Reading
Autosport Top 50 of 2025: #44 Tom Ingram
Just as they did before their victorious 2022 season in the first British Touring Car Championship campaign with hybrid, Tom Ingram, engineer Spencer Aldridge and Excelr8 Motorsport put the testing hard yards in early for 2025, for the switch back to no hybrid.That week at Anglesey with team-mate Tom ChiltonContinue Reading
Autosport Top 50 of 2025: #43 Kelvin van der Linde
Should we have been surprised that a driver who was at the forefront of Audi’s GT3 campaigns over eight seasons as a factory driver did the business on joining BMW for 2025? Of course not, but then no one could have predicted just what was to come for Kelvin vanContinue Reading
Autosport Top 50 of 2025: #42 Mathieu Jaminet
Porsche’s loss will be Genesis’ gain in 2026. Mathieu Jaminet was a star performer for Porsche in 2025 in both the IMSA SportsCar and World Endurance championships.He and Matt Campbell sealed the IMSA GTP title with consistency, but that would be to overlook some impressive drives. Jaminet was probably atContinue Reading