A dream come true. In 2025, Isack Hadjar will be among the 20 drivers in the F1 World Championship, chosen by Racing Bulls to replace Liam Lawson, who joined Red Bull. If there was no rookie in 2024, next season will see three new faces at the start. The Formula 2 champion Gabriel Bortoleto (Brazilian) will drive for Sauber, the Formula 2 vice champion Hadjar (French) will be with Racing Bulls and finally Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Italian from Bologna), sixth in Formula 2, who joined Mercedes.
But they are joined by the Englishman Oliver Bearman, new Haas driver and 12th in F2, and the Australian Jack Doohan, promoted from tester to official driver by Alpine. Bearman has already taken part in three Grands Prix, one with Ferrari and two with Haas, Doohan raced in the Yas Marina GP, but we can consider them “almost” rookies. And among the new features let’s not forget Franco Colapinto, who entered F1 in the second part of the 2024 championship with Williams, but who for 2025 will sit on the bench awaiting developments.
Hadjar, a 20-year-old French Algerian, born and raised in Paris, joined the Red Bull Academy after his peremptory victory in the Regional European by Alpine race in Monte Carlo. Third in the 2020 French F4, Hadjar immediately rose to Regionals with R-Ace, obtaining two victories and a fifth place finish in the championship. In 2022, the move to Formula 3 with Hitech where he achieved an excellent fourth place with three successes.
The leap to Formula 2 in 2023 was then inevitable, again with Hitech, but the season was more complicated than expected and Hadjar finished 14th with a victory. This year, having joined the Campos team, the change of pace: four victories and until the last race the title was played with Bortoleto.
His first taste of an F1 car occurred in the first free practice session of the 2023 Mexican GP with Alpha Tauri which was followed by a second chance in FP1 at Yas Marina. This year, with Red Bull, he participated in the FP1 at Silverstone and Yas Marina. On the Abu Dhabi circuit he also took part in collective tests, still driving the Red Bull.
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