The 2025 F1 Season:
Who Wants It More?

The one guarantee in financial storytelling? You’ll never be short of data. The skill comes in resisting rabbit holes and presenting only what drives the conversation forward.

This Week's Chart Drop

A Formula 1 season naturally lends itself to visual storytelling. Already McLaren is emerging as the car to beat, but the driver dynamics tell a more interesting story:

• Piastri is calm, clinical, and quietly consistent.
• Norris has the pace — but inconsistency and mistakes could derail a title shot
• And then there’s Verstappen. Still dangerous. Still fast. But Red Bull’s internal chaos could be his biggest rival.

Design Trick

Instead of creating a single line chart with multiple lines (the dreaded “spaghetti chart”), use panel charts to make mini charts. The trick is to align the axes of each chart, to compare like with like

Each week, I share one simple Excel visual—from sport, business, or personal finance—to give finance professionals ideas on how to present their data.

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