Ranking the 2025 F1 teams after pre-season testing

We've studied long runs, short runs, the cars' behaviour from trackside and talked to drivers, engineers and team bosses in the paddock to come up with our performance ranking of the 2025 Formula 1 cars at the end of pre-season testing - from worst to best.

00:00 How we decide our ranking
01:04 Number 10
01:49 Number 9
02:39 Number 8
03:28 Number 7
04:05 Number 6
05:15 Number 5
05:58 Number 4
07:07 Number 3
07:58 Number 2
08:49 Number 1

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[EpicAwesomesauce]

I love how the AMG Petronas Oracle BWT HP McLaren Racing car looks this year.

[Dyils]

Red Bull 4th and Mercedes 2nd... I'm bookmarking this video so I can come back after the first race. This is going to age finely.

[NERGYStudios]

Hulk moving from Haas to Sauber was the peak Hulk move.

[RSaran]

The edit to start last video and the thumbnail for this one makes me think The Race spent all winter learning photoshop 😂

[ruijikisu]

williams on the top of the midfield seems a little too good to be true, but id be happy to be surprised

[SwaggySimon]

Man I can’t wait for this season to start. It’s really giving me 2012 vibes.

[Grubak]

Williams is going to win championship trust

[fallenshallrise]

If The Race owned a cafe: when asked the customer "claimed" that they wanted a latte and "admitted" that they would like a lid... "however" claims that they didn't need a sleeve proved to be false.

[jee]

I'm not gonna be tricked by Merc in pre-season like I was last year, I'm not giving myself any false hope again.

[gmbsmkd]

Wish the best for Carlos & Alexander 💪

[HSplashy]

I know Aston Martin have put alot of faith into Adrian Newey and 2026 but I don't think there going to be the 2nd slowest team this year

[jayman]

James Key continuing to work his magic.

[magicjack]

How James key still have a job after making no progress at McLaren and butchering that sauber to become a works team makes no sense

[changbeerbeer]

Can’t wait for the 2025 season to start 🏁🏁🏎️

[sb-rdoc]

Easy prediction would be to tell the best and the worst only

Best:McLaren
Worst:Sauber

[minjod]

I'm an agent of chaos. I would love to see Sainz randomly winning the championship in a Williams

[PlaySA]

The Alpine is a nice-looking car. What a chance from early in last season in terms of performance, too.

[espvp]

Remember last year when red bull sandbagged the entire 3 days testing AND the 3 practice sessions of the Bahrain GP just for Max to qualify on pole and win by 20 seconds to P2 Checo? Yeah, these times mean nothing

[collarsncolours]

Whoever did the thumbnail definitely wanted to outdo the F1 testing highlight intro transitions