2025 Australian GP received’t break report for youngest common age in F1 (but it surely’ll come shut)

The F1 paddock is not a spot for the previous
First got here the announcement of Oliver Bearman becoming a member of Haas, then Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s transfer to Mercedes to exchange Lewis Hamilton. Lastly, a flurry of latest names emerged within the latter phases of the season: Lawson at Crimson Bull, Bortoleto at Sauber, Doohan at Alpine, and Hadjar at Racing Bulls. Precisely one 12 months after the unprecedented stagnation of the motive force market between the 2023 and 2024 seasons — the primary time in 74 years of F1 historical past that the grid remained unchanged from one season’s final GP to the subsequent season’s opener — the paddock is prepared for a breath of contemporary air. Nevertheless, it received’t break a report that has stood for greater than seven seasons.

The report of the 2017 Russian GP
There’s little doubt that essentially the most talked-about driver, for higher or worse, will probably be Sir Lewis Hamilton, making his historic debut with Ferrari. On the identical time, the inflow of younger expertise, promoted (maybe prematurely, because the observe will reveal) from junior classes, will probably be a recurring subject within the upcoming championship. What is definite is that the 2025 Australian GP, regardless of the numerous younger debutants, is not going to be the F1 race with the youngest common age in historical past. That report belongs to the 2017 Russian GP, which featured a median driver age of 26 years, 9 months, and seven days.

The typical age in F1 at Melbourne 2025
This statistic is considerably skewed by the absence of 35-year-old Fernando Alonso from that GP as a consequence of a technical concern that pressured his retirement minutes earlier than the beginning. Alonso’s absence — he was driving for McLaren-Honda on the time — considerably lowered the common in a season already crammed with younger drivers. File or not, it’s simple that the common age in F1 is dropping dramatically, by almost two years, between the 2024 Bahrain GP and the upcoming 2025 Australian GP, though all returning drivers are, naturally, a 12 months older.

The 2025 Formulation 1 season opener in Melbourne will function a median age of 27.28 years among the many 20 beginning drivers, considerably decrease than the 29.25 years recorded in Bahrain in 2024. It goes with out saying that the report may nonetheless be damaged, significantly if one of many three veterans — Fernando Alonso (43), Lewis Hamilton (40), or Nico Hulkenberg (37) — had been to overlook a race or be unable to take part as a consequence of a technical concern earlier than the beginning (as occurred to Fernando Alonso in Sochi 2017). Apparently, aside from the three aforementioned veterans, the fourth oldest driver and the one different over-30 on the grid will probably be Carlos Sainz, who will begin the season’s first GP on the age of 30 years, 6 months, and 19 days.

The desk of all F1 drivers’ ages on the 2025 Australian GP
Beneath is a desk displaying the ages of all drivers as of March 16, the day the 2025 F1 World Championship begins with the Australian GP.

 March 16 , that’s, the day during which the 2025 F1 World Championship will begin with the Australian GP.

Jan 1, 2025Maria Lombardi

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