First F1 25: 2026 Season DLC Details Coming This Week

EA has confirmed the archetypal details for F1 25’s 2026 Season Pack update volition beryllium made disposable this Wednesday, May 20. The uncover trailer for the upcoming DLC volition beryllium released astatine 4pm UK time, May 20 (11am EDT/8am PDT, and 1am AEST connected May 21).

For the clip being, EA has revealed the “cover” athletes for the update: seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton, erstwhile F3 and F2 champion Gabriel Bortoleto, and seasoned operator Valtteri Bottas, victor of 10 F1 Grands Prix and existent proprietor of the top F1 moustache this broadside of Nigel Mansell.

The beingness of Bortoleto and Bottas would beryllium nary accident, since they correspond the 2 caller teams connected the 2026 grid: Audi and Cadillac.

EA confirmed successful precocious 2025 that determination would beryllium nary standalone F1 crippled released alongside the real-life 2026 season, revealing that the 2026 Formula One World Championship would beryllium coming arsenic a paid enlargement for the existing F1 25 instead.

The contented update is acceptable to bespeak each the sport’s 2026 changes, with caller cars, caller drivers, and the caller regulations. How the caller cars are handled wrong the 2026 play DLC volition beryllium absorbing considering however captious galore existent F1 drivers person been of their caller characteristics. Two-time F1 champ Fernando Alonso has dubbed modern F1 a “battery satellite championship”, 2025 champ Lando Norris has lamented F1 has gone from “the champion cars ever made successful Formula 1 and the nicest to thrust to astir apt the worst”, and four-time champ Max Verstappen has quipped that he’s swapped the simulator for his Nintendo Switch, joking that he’s present practicing with Mario Kart instead.

The adjacent afloat crippled successful the bid is planned for 2027, and volition beryllium “reimagined into a much expansive acquisition with caller ways to play for fans astir the world.”

IGN’s F1 25 reappraisal noted determination stay “several areas wherever it hovers frustratingly abbreviated of its afloat potential,” including its fascination with covering and emotes implicit classical F1 cars and contented – but that it’s “comfortably the strongest the bid has been since the instrumentality favourite F1 2020.”

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