2025 Australian GP received’t break document 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 switch Lewis Hamilton. Lastly, a flurry of latest 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 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 following season’s opener — the paddock is prepared for a breath of contemporary air. Nevertheless, it received’t break a document that has stood for greater than seven seasons.

The document of the 2017 Russian GP
There’s little doubt that probably the most talked-about driver, for higher or worse, can 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, can be a recurring subject within the upcoming championship. What is for certain 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 document belongs to the 2017 Russian GP, which featured a mean 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 situation 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 full of younger drivers. Report 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, although all returning drivers are, naturally, a 12 months older.

The 2025 Formulation 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 document 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 consequence of a technical situation earlier than the beginning (as occurred to Fernando Alonso in Sochi 2017). Curiously, other than the three aforementioned veterans, the fourth oldest driver and the one different over-30 on the grid can 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
Under 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 through which the 2025 F1 World Championship will begin with the Australian GP.

Jan 1, 2025Maria Lombardi

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