F1 | 2025 Emilia-Romagna F1 Grand Prix Prix-View

May 14, 2025

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F1 heads back into Europe with all the drivers no doubt excited about the rush of classic races that await. Except for Jack Doohan presumably. Talking of dumping, our 2025 Emilia-Romagna F1 Grand Prix Prix-View has a fresh dumping of stats and opinion for the race weekend ahead.

The Gurgler’s 2025 Emilia-Romagna F1 Grand Prix Prix-View brings some thoughts on the track and race itself, a more than a few barely interesting stats.

Essentially a quick summary of what a casual F1 fan needs in the shortest possible time for your convenience.

And for F1 opinion, stand by for the F1 Donkey’s Bold Predictions and Opinion.

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2025 Emilia-Romagna F1 Grand Prix Prix-view – Race Potential Rating

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The Gurgler does like to use some obscure drivers in our Race previews and report, so who better to use than Teo Fabi to determine a race rating system.

So before each race we give a rating out of ten for four key category that are loosely based on each letter of Teo Fabi’s surname. Don’t know who Teo Fabi is, you should.

FAST? 7 / 10 – Not as fast as it was in the early days, but still plenty fast. The Acque Minerali corner section is great to watch and I hope Martin Brundle is trackside during Practice to show it. Brundle’s P1 and P2 hideout crosses are among the best parts of the F1 coverage. And undulating track also helps to make it look fast.

ACTION? 3 / 10 – It’s an old fashioned track with mid 1990’s safety changes, which means there’s usually not much overtaking and action without rain. But it is a hard, technical track to drive, so there’s room for mistakes and action there. Especially with new Alpine driver Crasho Colapinto.

BIG HISTORY? – 9 / 10 – Been around since 1980 in F1 and has hosted the Italian, San Marino and Emilia-Romagna Grands Prix. The 1980’s turbo era saw Imola as an economy run where running out of petrol was a 50-50. There’s also been some big historic F1 events here. Like 1982 when just 14 cars started due to an F1 Civil War and the Ferrari drivers squabbled over the win, leaving one to declare he’ll never speak to his team mate ever again. And he didn’t because he was killed at the next race weekend. This is also the track where the Prost-Senna feud really kicked off in 1989. And of course the sad weekend of 1994 where F1 lost two drivers in consecutive days – Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna. More joyfully there were the nail-biting battle between peak Alonso and Michael Schumacher of 2005 and 2006.

INCLEMENT WEATHER? – 5 /10 The Weather Channel says there’s a 40% chance of a PM Thunderstorm. And Imola has a decent history of wet races. Just ask George Russell.

RACE POTENTIAL RATING 60% – A classic old track that will need rain to make it exciting, but a home for team mate flashpoints, including one at McLaren. So they need to be aware.

2023 F1 Track Stats

2025 Emilia-Romagna F1 Grand Prix Prix-view – Stats Summary

Want to know if your favourite driver for this weekend is a master of the track or the track is a master of them? Here then are some barely interesting facts and stats.

This is a track where brothers have both won at, and father and son have each taken a pole position.
Since 2001, no driver has won the race from lower than third position.
Four times since 2001, that fourth place on the grid has finished fourth.