F1 75 Live: Coverage as F1 kicks off the 2025 season at The O2 in London

The 2025 Formula 1 season is the 75th in the sport’s rich history.

To help commemorate that fact, and to get fans excited for the upcoming season, F1 is holding the first-ever season launch event, tonight at The O2 in London. All ten teams will be in attendance to unveil their liveries for the upcoming season, as well as their driver lineups for the year ahead. In addition a star-studded lineup of performers will help showcase the sport, and over 15,000 fans are expected to see the event in person.

SB Nation will be following the event all evening, and highlighting some of the best moments and images from F1 75 Live. So check back early and often as the 2025 F1 season begins!

Updates are in reverse chronological order, so if you are coming to this after the fact you might want to start at the bottom.

And with that, F1 75 Live has come to a close.

Tomorrow Ferrari will unveil the SF-25, their challenger for the 2025 season. That will also give Lewis Hamilton a chance to get behind the wheel of the team’s car for this year.

Favorite liveries? Sound off in the comments.

For me, VCARB cooked this year.

The defending Constructors’ Champions unveiled the MCL39 last week, but they used a camouflage black-and-orange scheme for their filming day.

Tuesday at The O2 the world saw their look for 2025:

Finally, the moment many were waiting for arrived.

Lewis Hamilton taking the stage as a Ferrari driver:

hey also unveiled their look for 2025, but Hamilton was the big draw in this unveiling.

Red Bull’s look for 2025 looks ... familiar

Mercedes took the opportunity to get some pitstop practice in at F1 75 Live:

Aston Martin went heavy with the James Bond introduction, before unveiling their look for the AMR25:

A year after many were wondering where the pink was, Alpine showcased a little more on the A525:

And now another white livery, as Haas unveils their look for the VF-25:

Here is the moment Haas rolled out their look for 2025, complete with some Lenny Kravitz:

Season looking up ...

Ok now we are cooking ...

Here is the moment the world met the white VCARB RB02:

lubhouse leader for best livery? Many are saying ...

Up next? Williams. While the team unveiled a special one-off livery last week when introducing the FW47, that will be used at the British Grand Prix. This is their main design for the 2025 F1 season:

Sauber was up first with their livery for the 2025 season, leaning heavily into green as they did last year with the C44:

For those wondering about what each team names their challenger, we have you covered here:

Comedian Jack Whitehall took the stage after an opening set from Machine Gun Kelly and joked about how all the cars will look the same as last year.

Fans are hoping that is not the case ...

Before the event began in earnest, Lewis Hamilton caught up with former boss Toto Wolff on the red carpet:

Speaking on the red carpet Hamilton talked about his debut season with Ferrari, and noted that he will be driving the team’s challenger tomorrow at Ferrari’s individual launch event, and he “can’t wait:”

One of the most-anticipated aspects of F1 75 Live is the public debut of Lewis Hamilton with Ferrari. He and Charles Leclerc pulled up in the perfect Ferrari for the occasion:

McLaren, who secured the 2024 F1 Constructors’ Championship, is back to take another run at a title. CEO Zak Brown and driver Oscar Piastri pulled up in an orange-and-black McLaren with nine stars on the door forming a number nine, reflective of the team’s nine Constructors’ titles:

With the temperature just above freezing in London — according to AccuWeather it is currently 39 degrees Fahrenheit in the city — Fernando Alonso stepped out of an Aston Martin with a winter jacket on.

Alonso quickly passed that jacket off to pose for photos alongside teammate Lance Stroll, but not before trying to warm his hands:

Haas is one of the teams with a completely new driver lineup for 2025. Esteban Ocon joins the team from Alpine while Oliver Bearman, one of the rookies on the grid, makes the jump from the F2 ranks.

Bearman and Ocon were among the early arrivals on the red carpet, joined by Team Principal Ayao Komatsu:

The Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team lineup of Yuki Tsunoda and Isack Hadjar showed up in a Honda S2000, and Tsunoda could hot help burning a little rubber at the red carpet:

Formula 1 President and CEO Stefano Domenicali arrived in a Fiat with the perfect license plate for the occasion.

“F1 75:”

We already have our first “race winners” of the 2025 F1 season.

Sauber.

Their all-new pairing of veteran Nico Hülkenberg and rookie Gabriel Bortoleto were the first to hit the red carpet: