Mercedes ignored as Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s key driver line-up rivals tipped
Ferrari's closest c𝓀ompetitors picked out of the crowd for 2025 F1 season

The rival F1 driver line-up which will trouble 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari has been identified.
Mercedes, who Hamilton has left behind after ꧒their legendary stint together, have been ignored as prediction🐽s fly in for the 2025 Formula 1 campaign.
McLaren’s driver duo haꩲve instead been identified as the key competitors for Ferra🍸ri.
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri are the pairing who will✃ rival Hamilton and Charles Leclerc most closely, according to our experts.
“They have got a ꦜnice, balanced pairing. Lando, despite the criticism he received, his performance♔ and pace was at a championship-winning level,” Connor McDonagh told the Crash F1 podcast.
“There are a number of errors at 🥃the start of the seas⛄on but at the end? He had Oscar at an arm’s length.
“McLaren’s car is the most balanced, Ferrari’s is better on longer straights and 90-de🎃gree corners. McLaren have th♛e edge.
“You can’t look past these driver pairings.”
'Question marks' at Mercedes and Red Bull
Lewis Larkam said: “McLaren have to go into the season as early favourites baဣsed🍬 on how they ended last season.
“They have a st♍rong driver pairing who showed that they work well together. Even during th🌄e team orders kerfuffle, they still came out on top.
“The key thing 🐭is the driver line-ups. McLaren have a strong line-up, Ferrari already had that but it’s stronger now.
“Mercedes and Red Bull? There are question marks, there is an un🔥known to how Liam Lawson will perform.
“Kimi🧔 Antonelli has proven to be very quick but Mercedes have said themselves that they expect him to make mistakes.
“Toto Wolff expects to be tearing his hair out.
“On the flip side, when he gets it ri🎉ght, it will be pretty special.
“When you consider that, McLaren and Ferrari are in the stronger position in terms of the ꧂driver line-up.
“Therefore, over the course of♐ the season, they are the two teams likely to c✤hallenge for the constructors’.”