Every rookie to drive in FP1 in F1 2025

Each Formula 1 team needs to satisfy the rule of running a ‘rookie’ driver in each of its cars during a season

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Each Formula 1 team needs to satisfy the rule of running a ‘rookie’ driver twice in each of its cars during a season.

Rookies are defined as any driver with no more than one grand prix start to their name. So Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) and Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber) all ticked off the rookie requirements for their cars in Australia and China.

As Ollie Bearman (Haas) already started three grands prix last year, he doesn't count, while Alpine rookie Jack Doohan only counted for Australia because he made his F1 debut in Abu Dhabi last year.

This Friday in Austria, Ferrari junior Dino Beganovic will make his second FP1 appearance, having made his FP1 bow in Bahrain. Meanwhile McLaren will hand an FP1 debut to its F2 points leader Alex Dunne.

McLaren (2)
Alex Dunne - Austria
Pato O'Ward - Mexico

Ferrari (2)
Dino Beganovic - Bahrain, Austria

Red Bull (1)
Ayumu Iwasa - Bahrain

Mercedes (3)
Kimi Antonelli - Australia, China
Frederick Vesti - Bahrain

Aston Martin (1)
Felipe Drugovich - Bahrain

Alpine (2)
Jack Doohan - Australia
Ryo Hirakawa - Japan

Haas (2)
Ryo Hirakawa - Bahrain, Barcelona

Racing Bulls (2)
Isack Hadjar - Australia, China

Williams (2)
Luke Browning - Bahrain
Victor Martins - Barcelona

Sauber (2)
Gabriel Bortoleto - Australia, China

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