Since Formula One is a constantly-changing subject, its pages need constant updating. The following guidelines should help when updating F1-related articles.

After first practice

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After qualifying

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After the sprint (if there is one)

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After the race

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At the end of a season

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 Y = done at the end of the 2023 season;  N = not (yet) done at the end of the 2023 season;  * = partially done at the end of the 2023 season;    = not done at the end of the 2023 season but now doesn't need to be done

  • Just before the final race of the season:
    •  Y Update the team article infoboxes to include new season details (drivers, chassis, engine, etc.), leaving the old season details in place. NOTE: 2024 season details have not been added into the infoboxes of Alfa Romeo in Formula One or Scuderia AlphaTauri because these teams will change name for 2024, so details of their 2024 participation will probably be contained in a different article
    •  Y Update the driver article infoboxes to include new season details (team, car number), leaving the old season details in place.
    •  Y Update the "Formula One drivers from <country>" articles' infoboxes to include new season details (including countries with no drivers for the new season)
(It's recommended to do these updates before the new season fields are unhidden in the templates, so that the correct/correctly formatted information is already in place when the fields are unhidden, thereby avoiding well-intentioned but malformed infobox updates immediately after the completion of the final race of the season)
(It's recommended to do these updates while the final race of the season is in progress, to avoid well-intentioned editors hacking the driver/team infoboxes or the teams template because they don't show their favourite driver's new team the second the race finishes)
  • Any time after the completion of the final race of the season:
    •  Y Update the number of Championship season which have been run in the lead of List of Formula One seasons
    •  Y Add the new season link to {{Formula One}} (but leave the old season link there too), see this version of the template as an example.
    •  Y Add new season information to team navboxes (e.g. {{McLaren}}) Old season information should be retained until 1 January.
    •  Y Update the "Last season" fields in the team and driver infoboxes to refer to the just-completed season (including de-populating the fields for teams and drivers who didn't compete in the just-completed season, but competed in the previous one).
    •  Y Update Portal:Formula One/Next Grand Prix and subpages.
    •  Y Update the heading of the old season "cars" template (change "that compete in" to "that competed in").
    •  Y Update old season car articles to say "was driven by" instead of "is being driven by".
    •  Y subst transclusions of {{LatestF1GP}} in old season car infoboxes. Suggest doing the substing by hand rather than using a tool like AutoWikiBrowser, which leaves behind lots of extraneous markup.
    •  Y Update the "Highest season finish" parameter if necessary in the "Formula One drivers from <country>" articles' infobox.
    •  Y Add parameter for next year in Template:Infobox F1 nationality and Template:Infobox F1 nationality/doc following the same style as for the current year (e.g. After the final race of 2024 add the parameters for 2025 following the same style as for 2024)
    •  Y subst transclusions of {{F1cstat|seasonposition}} and {{F1cstat|seasonpoints}} in constructor, constructor results and engine supplier results articles (don't forget AMR GP and Sauber Motorsport). Suggest doing the substing by hand rather than using a tool like AutoWikiBrowser, which leaves behind lots of extraneous markup. Consider leaving this until when the new season rows are added to the table, so the markup can be copied.
    •  Y subst transclusions of {{F1cstat}} in old season car articles. Suggest doing the substing by hand rather than using a tool like AutoWikiBrowser, which leaves behind lots of extraneous markup. Consider leaving this until the new season car article has been created, so that the formulas for number of races/wins/poles/podiums/fastest laps can be copied from the old season car article into the new season car article (of course, if the substing is done earlier, the calculations can always be retrieved from the old season car article history)
    •  Y Add the car of the Drivers' and Constructors' champions to Category:Formula One championship-winning cars
  • Once the new season "cars" template has been created
    •  Y Unhide the "next" link in the titlebar of the old season "cars" template
    •  Y Add the new season Red Bull and RB cars to {{Red Bull}} (i.e. the general Red Bull template, not {{Red Bull Racing}})
  • Any time after 00:00 on January 1 (UTC):
  • Once the driver lineup for the new season has been finalised:
  • Just before the first race of the new season:
    •  Y Update Formula One#Grands Prix for the new season
    •  Y Add "new season" rows to the team "Formula One results" and "Racing record" tables (don't forget AMR GP and Sauber Motorsport)
    •  Y Add "new season" rows to the engine supplier "Formula One results" tables. Note: the 2023 and 2024 rows for Honda RBPT were added to Honda Grand Prix results
    •  Y Add "new season" rows to the driver "Formula One results" tables
    •  Y Add "new season" rows to the driver "Career summary" tables
    •  Y Subst transclusions of {{F1stat}} in the "old season" row of the driver "Career summary" tables (in theory this can be done any time after the final race of the old season, but it probably makes sense to do it when the "new season" row is added to the table, so that whoever does it can copy the "old season" row to create the "new season" row, before substing the "old season" row)

"As of" statements

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Numerous F1-related articles contain statements of the form "As of <date> ..." or "To date ..." The end of the season seems like a good time to review these statements and update them if necessary.
Note: In mid-June 2021, there was a large purge of "Notes" sections in race report articles. So some of the "as of" statements in the "YYYY <country> Grand Prix" articles listed below may have been deleted.