An unknown Formula 1 team principal has apparently offered an interesting take o🥃n how to approach the 2025 season.

This is the final year in the current rules cycle, before the fresh engine regulatio👍ns beg🌸in from 2026 onwards.

The new rules offer an opportunity at a blank slate, with every team hoping to dramatically increase their competiꦯtiveness.

But this is only possible with industry-ꦇleading innovation which will inevitably detract attention from this season’s upgrades🅷.

How will F1 midfield teams approach 2025?

Sky Sports F1 commentator Davi💟d Croft said: “If you’re Alpine… you’re not going to be throwing a lot of resourc🌃es at 2025 beyond Spain.

“What’s the point?

“As one F1 team principal, from a mi😼dfield team, said to me during the winter: ‘we could throw everything at 2025 and move up one place but what’s the point? We are abs🍬olutely crucifying ourselves for 2026 if we do that’.

“2026 is such a huge change and all the teams are aware ꦜof this.

“James Vowles said: ‘We wil🔜l go to every round and scrap hard for every point, tha💖t is my promise’.

“I don’t thi🌌nk he’s lying. They will go to every round and scrap as hard as they can - but they won’t bring upgrad🐽es every round.

“Because what’s the point?

“While they are focused on that, they aren’t foc꧂used on the big gains of next yeꦆar.

“Trust me, some will get it absolutely right and som🃏e will get it wrong.”

The front-running team🌺s will dream of establishing an era of dominance, much like Red Bull or Mercedes before them.

But there are massive gains to be made for the midfield bunch 🍃too, with the chance to contend more regularly for podiums if they can develop a car with an engine to envy𒆙.

Audi and Cadillac also enter F1 in 2026, two huge-name manufacturers 🀅who won’t aspire to anything less than fighting at the front.