By any metric, 2025 has been a stellar year for British motorsport. Over the past 12 months, three circuit drivers have been crowned World Champions, alongside many notable successes across a host of other disciplines.

Topping the list, Lando Norris became the country’s record 11th FIA Formula One Drivers’ World Champion in a year in which Formula One celebrated its 75th anniversary – the first-ever points-scoring F1 race having been staged at Silverstone in 1950. Norris also led the resurgent McLaren Formula 1 Team to back-to-back Constructors’ crowns.

Britain claimed another World Champion title in sportscars: James Calado winning the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship with Ferrari AF Corse in the premier Hypercar class.

Switching to electric motorsport, Oliver Rowland became the second British driver to lift the Formula E World Championship crown – a career milestone he reached with two rounds remaining on the calendar.

In addition to being reigning World Champions, Norris, Calado and Rowland share another distinction: all three are alumni of the Motorsport UK Academy – the initiative which exists specifically to identify the UK’s top young talent and help them reach their full potential.

Looking to the future, Britain also celebrated another World Champion in 2025, with 13-year-old Noah Baglin winning the FIA World Karting Championship in the OK-Junior category. Underlining his talent, the teenager is already a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy.

As if those standout successes were not enough, the UK could easily have celebrated two further World Champions in 2025. Elfyn Evans and co-driver Scott Martin missed out on their respective World Rally Championship titles by just four points, having led the standings for much of the season.

They will be hoping their time will come in 2026 – a year that already looks certain to deliver yet more British success on the international motorsport stage.