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In Formula 1, the action off the track is often as exciting as the racing on it. Here are 13 figures to know about the massive business behind the world’s most popular motorsport. With a dominant start by drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, McLaren sewed up Formula 1’s constructors’ championship in October, but the 2025 F1 season featured no shortage of thrills, all the way through Sunday’s finale in Abu Dhabi. After 24 heart-pounding Grand Prix races—and six sprints—here are 13 eye-popping numbers to know from a historic year that marked the sport’s 75th anniversary. 10 The number of teams that competed in Formula 1 this season—just as it has been since 2019. However, 2026 will see Cadillac joining the grid, after it paid a reported $450 million fee to the ten existing teams and committed hundreds of millions more in startup costs. The arrival of an 11th team is one of several important changes coming to F1 next year. 21 The number of countries that hosted Grand Prix races this year. (Only the United States, with three races, and Italy, with two, had more than one.) In another sign of F1’s global reach, the 21 drivers who entered a race this year were from 14 countries—and although Japan’s Yuki Tsunoda is losing his seat at Red Bull, the nationality count will rise to 15 next season as the grid gains Finland’s Valtteri Bottas and Mexico’s Sergio Pérez at Cadillac. 500% The approximate appreciation of McLaren Racing over the last five years, from the time that MSP Sports Capital bought a minority stake at a $750 million valuation in December 2020 to a deal in September 2025 in which MSP cashed out at a roughly $4.5 billion valuation. With CEO Zak Brown bolstering McLaren’s sponsorships and, as a back-to-back…

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