EA has confirmed the primary particulars for F1 25’s 2026 Season Pack replace can be made out there this Wednesday, Could 20. The reveal trailer for the upcoming DLC can be launched at 4pm UK time, Could 20 (11am EDT/8am PDT, and 1am AEST on Could 21).
In the intervening time, EA has revealed the “cowl” athletes for the replace: seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton, former F3 and F2 champion Gabriel Bortoleto, and veteran driver Valtteri Bottas, winner of 10 F1 Grands Prix and present proprietor of the best F1 moustache this facet of Nigel Mansell.
The presence of Bortoleto and Bottas could be no accident, since they signify the 2 new groups on the 2026 grid: Audi and Cadillac.
EA confirmed in late 2025 that there could be no standalone F1 recreation launched alongside the real-life 2026 season, revealing that the 2026 Method One World Championship could be coming as a paid enlargement for the present F1 25 as an alternative.
The content material replace is ready to mirror all the game’s 2026 modifications, with new vehicles, new drivers, and the brand new rules. How the brand new vehicles are dealt with inside the 2026 season DLC can be fascinating contemplating how important many present F1 drivers have been of their new traits. Two-time F1 champ Fernando Alonso has dubbed fashionable F1 a “battery world championship”, 2025 champ Lando Norris has lamented F1 has gone from “the most effective vehicles ever made in Method 1 and the nicest to drive to most likely the worst”, and four-time champ Max Verstappen has quipped that he’s swapped the simulator for his Nintendo Swap, joking that he’s now practising with Mario Kart as an alternative.
The following full recreation within the sequence is deliberate for 2027, and can be “reimagined right into a extra expansive expertise with new methods to play for followers world wide.”
IGN’s F1 25 assessment famous there stay “a number of areas the place it hovers frustratingly in need of its full potential,” together with its fascination with clothes and emotes over basic F1 vehicles and content material – however that it’s “comfortably the strongest the sequence has been for the reason that fan favorite F1 2020.”
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