{"id":381272,"date":"2025-12-30T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/381272\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:17:09","slug":"formula-1-motorsport-news-2025-drivers-vote-max-verstappen-best-in-season-as-lando-norris-and-oscar-piastri-snubbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/381272\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 motorsport news 2025, drivers vote Max Verstappen best in season as Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri snubbed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Verstappen<\/a> was voted the Formula 1<\/a> Driver of the Year by his colleagues for the fifth-straight year despite falling short of his fifth consecutive world championship.<\/p>\n

Season champion Lando Norris<\/a> of McLaren finished second to the Red Bull star, with Mercedes’ George Russell, McLaren’s Oscar Piastri<\/a> and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n

Aussie driver Piastri came fourth in the poll despite finishing third in the F1 drivers’ championship, and winning seven races throughout the year.<\/p>\n

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\"Oscar<\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri (left), Max Verstappen and Lando Norris had a tight battle for championship glory. \u00a0NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

His McLaren teammate Norris won the drivers’ championship, also winning seven races in 2025. Verstappen finished second despite winning eight races.<\/p>\n

Russell came fourth in the championship.<\/p>\n

William’ Charles Sainz finished sixth, followed by Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, Williams’ Alex Albon, Haas’ Oliver Bearman and Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar.<\/p>\n

Albon, Bearman and Hadjar were new to the top 10 this year. Alonso moved up two places from 2024 and Leclerc slipped two spots.<\/p>\n

Notably absent from the list is seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari), who failed to crack the top 10 for the first time since the poll’s inception in 2018.<\/p>\n

Using the standard F1 points allocation, drivers were asked to rank their top 10 peers.<\/p>\n

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Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The top driver on each list received 25 points, down to one point for the driver ranked 10th.<\/p>\n

Verstappen, 28, earned a top score of 25 points on six different ballots after a furious late-season comeback, winning six of the final nine grands prix races to finish just two points behind Norris.<\/p>\n

Four drivers did not participate in the anonymous poll: Hamilton, Nico Hulkenberg, Lance Stroll and Yuki Tsunoda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen was voted the Formula 1 Driver of the Year by his colleagues for the fifth-straight year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-381272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}