2025 Australian GP gained’t break file for youngest common age in F1 (however it’ll come shut)

The F1 paddock is not a spot for the outdated
First got here the announcement of Oliver Bearman becoming a member of Haas, then Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s transfer to Mercedes to interchange Lewis Hamilton. Lastly, a flurry of recent names emerged within the latter levels of the season: Lawson at Crimson Bull, Bortoleto at Sauber, Doohan at Alpine, and Hadjar at Racing Bulls. Precisely one yr 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 following season’s opener — the paddock is prepared for a breath of contemporary air. Nevertheless, it gained’t break a file that has stood for greater than seven seasons.

The file of the 2017 Russian GP
There’s little question that essentially the most talked-about driver, for higher or worse, might 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, might be a recurring matter within the upcoming championship. What is for certain is that the 2025 Australian GP, regardless of the numerous younger debutants, won’t be the F1 race with the youngest common age in historical past. That file belongs to the 2017 Russian GP, which featured a mean driver age of 26 years, 9 months, and seven days.

The common 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 result of a technical subject that compelled 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 stuffed with younger drivers. Document or not, it’s simple that the common age in F1 is dropping dramatically, by practically two years, between the 2024 Bahrain GP and the upcoming 2025 Australian GP, although all returning drivers are, naturally, a yr older.

The 2025 Components 1 season opener in Melbourne will characteristic a mean 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 file may nonetheless be damaged, notably 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 result of a technical subject earlier than the beginning (as occurred to Fernando Alonso in Sochi 2017). Apparently, other than the three aforementioned veterans, the fourth oldest driver and the one different over-30 on the grid might 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 wherein the 2025 F1 World Championship will begin with the Australian GP.

Jan 1, 2025Maria Lombardi

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