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McLaren's 2025 Formula One car feels like last year's championship winner and pre-season testing so far has been more about ticking boxes than absolute performance, Lando Norris said on Thursday.

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Carlos Sainz completed a double race distance for previously struggling Williams and pushed his Ferrari successor, Lewis Hamilton, off the top of the testing timesheets in Bahrain on Thursday. Seven-time champion Hamilton had been fastest in the morning session, but Sainz, doing a full day with a monster 127 laps, lapped the desert Sakhir circuit in one minute 29.348 seconds for the team that finished ninth of 10 last year.

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Lewis Hamilton (40) and Charles Leclerc (27) gave Ferrari's 2025 Formula 1 car its track debut on Wednesday, with the Monegasque going first before handing over to his new seven-time world champion teammate.

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Lewis Hamilton said he was "really enjoying" driving his Ferrari after ending the second morning of Formula One's pre-season testing in Bahrain with his name on top of the timesheets.

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Liam Lawson has one of the toughest gigs in Formula 1 as a teammate to Max Verstappen but while the 23-year-old New Zealander could be in for a beating, he also expects to learn fast this season. Verstappen has won four titles in a row with Red Bull and has a reputation, as one reporter put it to Lawson ahead of Tuesday's F1 launch extravaganza in London, of being a "teammate eater".

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BMW has officially confirmed: it will not be fielding a third Hypercar to the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans. Instead, it will concentrate on its two existing entries. The decision was partially based on a dense racing calendar in June, Motorsport head Andreas Roos explained.

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George Russell (27) has not spoken to Formula One champion Max Verstappen (27) since their end-of-season bust-up in Abu Dhabi last December and the Mercedes driver said on Tuesday he was not about to change his approach either.