Last week was supposed to be the season recap… and then Abu Dhabi happened. So this week, we’re doing it for real.

We’re finally handing out the 2025 Fast Ones Awards — Driver of the Year, Rookie of the Year, and all the other totally serious categories that may or may not devolve into arguing. We’ll zoom out on the full season now that the dust has settled, talk about Lando Norris’s championship run, the three-way title fight that went all the way to the final race, and why this ended up being a fitting send-off for the current regulations.

On top of that, we’ll catch up on the latest news from around the F1 world, revisit moments we somehow skipped over during race-by-race chaos, and inevitably lose focus along the way. If you were waiting for the actual season recap — this is the one.

Same Fast Ones energy. Just… delayed gratification.

The dust has settled, the fireworks are (mostly) done, and somehow we made it through the final year of this regulation set without spontaneously combusting — so it’s time for the full 2025 season wrap. Lando Norris is your World Champion, and we’re going to relive the absolute rollercoaster that got us there: our favorite moments of the year, the three-way title fight that went down to the last race, and why we’re forever grateful for a season that actually made us feel things on purpose.

We’re handing out the Fast Ones end-of-year awards: Rookie of the Year, Driver of the Year, Surprise of the Year, and probably some categories we invent mid-stream because we lose focus like it’s our job. We’ll talk championship context, who over-performed, who quietly leveled up, and who needs to take a long walk and think about what they did (don’t worry, George — we remember).

Then we zoom out: what has to change to replace Abu Dhabi as the finale (just give it back to Brazil already), and what we’re hoping for heading into 2026. Expect celebration, mild chaos, and a lot of detours on the road to a good laugh.

We’re back to break down the 2025 Qatar Grand Prix from lights-out sprint mayhem all the way to Sunday’s main event — and yes, we’re talking about the headline: Pirelli’s tire lap limit and the reasoning behind it. We dig into why the rule even existed, how teams tried to game it, and the pit-strategy elephant that stomped through the paddock all weekend.

Max Verstappen stays right in the title fight because, of course he does. McLaren… well, “papaya rules” are looking more like papaya problems right now, and we unpack how that floundering weekend could change the championship math heading into Abu Dhabi. Meanwhile Carlos Sainz continues his world tour of being criminally underrated, Ferrari is already emotionally living in 2026, and Haas might’ve had a rough one — but somehow the American B-team is starting to look like the most stable Ferrari on the grid.

Qatar gave us drama, confusion, and just enough chaos to keep the season spicy. Let’s talk about all of it.