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Two points: that’s how close Max Verstappen came to equalling Michael Schumacher’s feat of winning five consecutive Formula 1 world championships, despite having fallen more than 100 points behind in

It’s such a dramatic ride that movie director Ron Howard made a film about it.

After a Le Mans 24 Hours victory in each of its first two campaigns with the 499P Le Mans Hypercar, Ferrari had an avowed aim for 2025: to win a maiden World Endurance Championship title with the car.

The season ended rapid-fire on consecutive weekends and amid those shots a new world champion was crowned. In Vegas Max Verstappen re-lit the dying embers of his title challenge with a victory around

Lando Norris began the season in style – well, almost – with victory in the Australian Grand Prix. He qualified his McLaren on pole and recovered from synchronised grass-tracking with Oscar Piastri am

McLaren man took the crown, but it was a close-run and tense season.