Five Things to Know About the 2025 Abu Dhabi GP

After 23 rounds and almost nine months, Formula 1 finally reaches its 2025 conclusion at the now-traditional Abu Dhabi GP.

Yas Marina has hosted the season finale every year since the switch to turbo-hybrid engines in 2024, and there'll be the end-of-school atmosphere for many in the paddock on Sunday night.

Before we get there, though, we've got five final things to prepare you for the race weekend. Read on below.

Luke Browning is already a little familiar with the FW47 after taking the reins in two FP1s already in 2025.

Those laps in Bahrain and Mexico City will be supplemented with two additional days of F1 machinery around the Yas Marina Circuit.

Friday will have Luke taking over Alex Albon's car for the first free practice session on what will be a busy day for the Brit.

He'll be driving his usual Hitech F2 machine for the support series' practice and qualifying sessions, too, before tackling the Sprint Race on Saturday and final Feature Race on Sunday.

Then it's more FW47 action next week, with F1 staging the end-of-season Young Driver Test at Yas Marina.

Abu Dhabi hasn't been a happy hunting ground for the team for many years now. The last time we scored a top-10 finish in the finale was back in 2016 when Felipe Massa finished in P10.

With Atlassian Williams Racing enjoying two superb drivers who have grabbed points and podiums throughout the year, we'll be looking to put an end to that record on Sunday.

Alex has a personal best finish of P4 around the track from the 2020 race that preceded his year out of the sport to go with a rookie-season P6 result.

Meanwhile Carlos has three podium finishes and a total of six points-scoring Sundays from his previous Abu Dhabi finales.

You'll already know that we cannot be caught in the World Constructors' Championship standings after Carlos' P3 in Qatar.

No matter if our nearest rivals score a 1-2 finish and we retire, P5 is ours for 2025 after the team and both drivers excelled throughout the season.

But we won't stop there, as more points will see us reach heights that'll really underline the trajectory we've had over the past 12 months.

Our 137-point tally has us just one point shy of the 138 points that secured us P5 in 2016. If Alex or Carlos pick up P10 on Sunday then our two P3 finishes from 2025 would trump the single podium trip that year if the two seasons needed a tiebreaker.

Thanks to the contemporary point-scoring system if we were to score eight points or more, our 2025 efforts would see us reach the third-highest single-season point score in Williams' long history.

One driver grabbing a P6 finish would be enough for that, as would Carbono finishing in P7 and P9 or higher.

2026 will bring the much-anticipated new regulations and vastly different cars from the ones we're familiar with today.

Everything from the tyre sizes, car dimensions, and even DRS will change when we begin pre-season testing next year in anticipation of the season-opening Australian GP.

That means Sunday will be the last competitive outing of what we've all grown so familiar with seeing.

Although many are hopeful that overtaking will be easier next season as the sport moves away from ground-effect aerodynamics to try and allow cars to follow more closely, there are positives from 2025.

Qualifying, in particular, has never been tighter, with a single second covering the entire 20-car field in some Q1s this year. When you consider the gap between P1 and P20 was 2.3s at F1's first Abu Dhabi GP in 2009, you can see how much closer things have become.

Williams, Alex, Carlos, and our F2 representatives, Luke and Victor Martins, are all racing in their season finales to set the final scoreboard for 2025.

They're not the only ones, however, as our free-to-play game Pit Wall Predictions, presented by Gulf, will also reach its conclusion when the chequered flag waves on Lap 58.

With 40 points available at every round of our fantasy game, there's still time for the leader to be caught, despite their impressive 465 points from the 23 rounds.

Their nearest challenger sits at 450, so will need a strong Yas Marina showing to topple them, but we've all seen how much a season finale can throw the form book out the window to create spectacle.

Williams' in-house Grove guru, The Strategist, will also look for a mighty weekend to advance them from their 325 points. Can you beat them to claim bragging rights over our internal specialist? Play for the final time below.