Charles Leclerc has downplayed the prospect that the Formula 1 title fight between the McLaren drivers and Max Verstappen could

Hello and welcome to F1 LIVE, GPblog's daily live blog, where you'll learn about the most interesting F1 stories of Saturday, 25 October 2025. Lewis Hamilton has told McLaren that one of the key factors in getting the better of Max Verstappen in a title fight in to be uncompromising.

Dell Technologies has been the official innovation partner of McLaren Racing since 2018. Its Formula 1 team was one of the first adopters of Dell’s AI Factory.

Japanese driver Ryo Hirakawa paid McLaren just over £2.5million to drive Oscar Piastri ’s car at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The 31-year-old drove for McLaren in FP1 in the Persian Gulf at the end of last year, with the arrangement also including two Testing of Previous Car (TPC) events in preparation.

Max Verstappen topped second practice at the Mexico City Grand Prix – a session featuring all four front-running teams inside the top four places.

McLaren has won the constructors’ title in one of the most dominant seasons by a team in Formula 1. But how to handle the title fight between Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris is a question which won’t go away.

IndyCar star Pato O'Ward was taken to the medical center shortly after his Mexico GP FP1 outing in Lando Norris' McLaren MCL39.

The new pieces are part of Abercrombie & Fitch's ongoing collaboration with the McLaren Formula 1 team, which first hit stores in 2023

Despite Max Verstappen's late challenge, McLaren feels it has made the right decision to stop development of its 2025 Formula 1 car early