Isack Hadjar joins the Racing Bulls team, a third Frenchman will drive in F1 in 2025

The young French driver Isack Hadjar (20 years old) will drive for Racing Bulls, Red Bull’s sister team, during the 2025 Formula 1 season.

There will be a third French driver on the grid. Formula 2 vice-champion, Frenchman Isack Hadjar (20 years old) will drive for the Racing Bulls team (Visa Cash App RB) during the 2025 Formula 1 season. His signing was made official on Friday December 20 by the Italian team .

Isack Hadjar will team up with Yuki Tsunoda, in place since 2021. He takes over the steering wheel left free by Liam Lawson, promoted to the parent team Red Bull to replace Sergio Pérez.

This recruitment concludes, barring a last minute twist, the transfer window for the 2025 Formula 1 season. The grid is now complete and will therefore include two other French drivers with Pierre Gasly (Alpine) and Esteban Ocon (Haas).

From the Red Bull sector

“It’s huge for me, my family and all the people who believed in me from the start. The journey that took me from karting to single-seaters, then to Formula 1, is the moment for which I worked all my life, this is the dream.. (…) The learning curve will be huge, but I am ready to work hard and do my best for the team. I look forward to working with. Yuki and learn from him, I always admired,” declared the new Franco-Algerian pilot, quoted in the official press release.

Appointed reserve driver for Red Bull last fall, and member of the Austrian group’s young driver program since 2022, Isack Hadjar narrowly missed the Formula 2 championship title. His chances against Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto vanished when it stalled at the start of the last race of the season, in early December in Abu Dhabi.

A mishap which therefore did not upset the trust granted for some time by its leaders. “He clearly has the potential for Formula 1,” Red Bull sports consultant Helmut Marko said in August.