Antonelli the youngest, Alonso and Hamilton the oldest drivers on the 2025 F1 grid

With solely two groups – McLaren and Aston Martin – having retained their driver line up, the Components One grid is ready to form up in a different way in 2025 in comparison with the way it seemed like final season.

There might be a sequence of adjustments to the grid because the 2025 F1 season kicks off at Melbourne with the Australian Grand Prix in March.

Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton will go away Mercedes after twelve seasons to hitch Ferrari, ending his record-breaking streak of essentially the most consecutive seasons driving for a single constructor, in addition to competing in his first season with no Mercedes energy unit.

The Briton will change Carlos Sainz Jr., who left Ferrari after 4 seasons to hitch Williams on a multi-year deal. Hamilton himself might be changed by Mercedes junior Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who was promoted from Components 2.

Haas will discipline an all new line-up in 2025 as Nico Hülkenberg will go away the staff after two seasons to drive for Sauber, with whom he final competed in 2013. He might be changed by their reserve driver Oliver Bearman, who will step up from Components 2, having beforehand raced within the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix for Ferrari, and within the 2024 Azerbaijan and São Paulo Grands Prix for Haas.

The American staff’s Danish driver Kevin Magnussen will even depart the staff after seven seasons throughout two stints, together with his vacant seat set to be crammed by Esteban Ocon, who cut up from Alpine after 5 seasons with Group Enstone.

5-time MotoGP champion Mick Doohan’s son, Jack Doohan changed Ocon for the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and can retain the seat at Alpine for 2025.

Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu will each go away Sauber after three years. Bottas will rejoin Mercedes as a reserve driver, after having beforehand raced for the staff from 2017 to 2021. The vacant seats might be crammed by Hülkenberg and reigning Components 2 champion Gabriel Bortoleto.

Regardless of a beforehand introduced contract till 2026, Sergio Pérez left Purple Bull Racing after the conclusion of the 2024 season. He might be changed by Liam Lawson, who might be promoted from Racing Bulls after 5 Grands Prix in 2023 below the AlphaTauri moniker, and 6 Grands Prix in 2024 below the usage of the initialism RB.

Purple Bull Racing reserve and Components 2 runner-up Isack Hadjar will make his F1 debut with Racing Bulls as he’s set to companion Yuki Tsunoda.

As for the ages, there might be two drivers below 20, with Antonelli and Bearman nonetheless solely 18 and 19 years previous.

There might be 14 drivers who’re aged between 20 and 30. Hadjar and Bortoleto are solely 20 years previous, adopted by Jack Doohan (22), Liam Lawson (23) and Yuki Tsunoda (25). McLaren has the youngest driver line-up among the many prime groups, with Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris solely 23 and 25 years previous.

Lando Stroll is 26 years previous, whereas three prime racers, George Russell, Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc are all 27 years previous. Alex Albon, Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly are the one different drivers to be nonetheless below 30 years.

Ferrari’s former driver Carlos Sainz has already turned 30, whereas Nico Hulkenberg is the one different driver to be youthful than 40 years. Seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton and two-time F1 champion Fernando Alonso are the oldest drivers.

With six rookie drivers set to make their aggressive debut on the pinnacle of motorsport in 2025, all of them had been born earlier than two-time F1 world champion Fernando Alonso had made his debut in Components One.

The upcoming season will see six rookie drivers make their F1 debut, with Liam Lawson, Jack Doohan, Gabriel Bortoleto, Isack Hadjar, Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Oliver Bearman.

Doohan will be part of the already signed and introduced Pierre Gasly to type the staff’s driver pairing for subsequent season, turning into the primary Alpine Academy prospect to graduate right into a race seat with the staff.

The 21-year-old Australian – son of the legendary five-time 500cc motorcycling world champion – Mick Doohan – has served because the staff’s Reserve Driver for the previous two years after a profitable junior profession in worldwide single-seater racing.

Following the season-closing F1 spherical at Abu Dhabi, Purple Bull Racing confirmed that Liam Lawson will companion four-time F1 world champion Max Verstappen in 2025 F1 season.

The New Zealand native joined the Purple Bull Junior Programme in 2019 and after a number of junior method successes made his Components One debut with Scuderia AlphaTauri on the 2023 Dutch Grand Prix, rather than the injured Daniel Ricciardo.

He scored his first championship factors in simply his second outing on the Singapore GP and accomplished 5 races in all for the staff. After taking over his Reserve Driver function with each groups at first of 2024, Lawson returned to Grand Prix racing with Visa Money App Racing Bulls with a points-scoring end at this 12 months’s United States Grand Prix.

Now, after finishing the season with VCARB the 22-year-old takes the following step in his profession with a seat at Oracle Purple Bull Racing.

Audi and Sauber Motorsport AG confirmed originally of November that Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto will full the staff’s 2025 F1 pairing alongside Nico Hülkenberg.

Hailing from São Paulo, Bortoleto started his racing profession on the age of six in karting and, by twelve, he had moved to Europe together with his household to pursue his Components One dream.

He made a powerful impression upon graduating to FIA Components 3 in 2023 by dominating his debut season and successful the Championship, earlier than shifting to the FIA Components 2 Championship, the place he’s main the standings with simply two rounds to go. Becoming a member of the long run Audi works staff now offers Bortoleto the chance to indicate his expertise on the highest stage of motorsport.

The staff, which already confirmed German driver Nico Hülkenberg as a part of the staff for the upcoming season again in April, will now boast a balanced mixture of expertise and youth, because it prepares for the transition to the Audi F1 manufacturing facility staff in 2026.

Forward of final 12 months’s British Grand Prix, Haas confirmed that Oliver Bearman will compete for the US-squad on a multi-year contract starting with the 2025 F1 season.

The 19-year-old Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy member is at the moment an official reserve driver for the staff whereas contesting the FIA Components 2 Championship for Prema Racing. The Briton collected his first win of the 2024 marketing campaign final weekend in Austria within the Dash race so as to add to his tally of 4 victories from a stellar rookie season in 2023.

Bearman, in his further function as reserve driver for Scuderia Ferrari, made a memorable Components 1 debut again in March in Saudi Arabia substituting for the sidelined Carlos Sainz – in doing so turning into the third-youngest racer in Components 1 historical past. The then 18-year-old from Chelmsford completed in P7 at his debut.

The Racing Bulls introduced after the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that Isack Hadjar will be part of Yuki Tsunoda for the 2025 F1 season, because the staff sees one other Purple Bull Junior Driver step as much as into one of the sought-after seats in motorsport.

The 20-year-old driver has been driving for the Campos Racing staff in F2, and completed second within the drivers’ standings behind Sauber-bound Gabriel Bortoleto.

Hadjar turned AlphaTauri and Purple Bull Racing’s reserve driver after Liam Lawson crammed in for the injured Daniel Ricciardo finally 12 months’s Dutch Grand Prix.

The French driver might be following the footsteps of Max Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo as he turns into the nineteenth driver to be promoted to Components One from the Purple Bull Junior Program, which began again in 2001.

On the eve of final 12 months’s Italian Grand Prix, Mercedes introduced their 2025 driver line-up, with 18-year-old Italian Kimi Andrea Antonelli becoming a member of three-time F1 race winner George Russell behind the wheel for subsequent season.

As a part of Components One’s rule that requires each staff to run a younger driver in a free follow session twice a 12 months, Mercedes elected to offer Antonelli together with his first run in an official F1 session on his dwelling turf at Monza. Nevertheless, the Italian sensation crashed into the limitations at Parabolica solely on his second flying lap.

The Bologna-born driver was then handed one other alternative on the Mexican Grand Prix, the place he accomplished a profitable second outing with the German marque.

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