Sprint Races, Home Races, and Milestones:

What’s Coming Up in the Second Half of F1 2025

GR 150

It feels like yesterday that George Russell suited up for his F1 race debut at the 2019 Australian Grand Prix - where have those six years gone?!

When F1 touches down in Las Vegas in November, George will be lining up for his 150^th Grand Prix start, all of which have been supported by Mercedes off-track, and powered by Mercedes on it.

George will become the 48^th driver in F1 history to reach the 150 mark, and the fourth after Nico (Bahrain 2014), Lewis (Malaysia 2015), and Valtteri (Eifel 2020) to reach that number while driving for the three-pointed star.

Kimi at Home

While Kimi’s first F1 race in his home country came back at Imola in May, September will see the 19-year-old compete in his home Grand Prix for the first time.

No track has appeared on the F1 calendar more in 76 seasons than Monza, and if the Emilia-Romagna weekend earlier in the year is anything to go by, Kimi will have no shortage of support from the grandstands whenever he takes to the track.

It was at Monza a year ago when Kimi was announced as a full-time F1 driver for 2025, and he also made his FP1 rookie debut that weekend.

He has claimed wins at the famous track at Italian F4 and FRECA levels, and whatever happens on track, a maiden Italian GP week as an F1 driver is sure to be unforgettable.

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 500^th 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 15^th 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’ 50^th anniversary, we ran a special emerald-green inspired livery for the race around Marina Bay.

F1 ACADEMY Finale

Away from Formula 1, there will be lots of racing to keep an eye on in the second half of the year, most notably the final three races of the F1 ACADEMY season.

After three wins and two further podiums in the first four rounds, Doriane will be looking to extend her 20-point advantage at the top of the standings in the remaining three rounds.

A trip to Zandvoort in August will be followed by Singapore in October, before the season ends around the brightly lit streets of Las Vegas in November.

Doriane finished runner-up in the championship in 2024 and is in prime position to go one better this time around after a strong opening half to her campaign.

Elsewhere in Formula 3, junior driver Noah Strømsted will finish his maiden season in the series with the final two races at Monza.

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