2025 Australian GP received’t break file for youngest common age in F1 (but it surely’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The F1 paddock is not a spot for the outdated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 switch Lewis Hamilton. Lastly, a flurry of recent names emerged within the latter levels of the season: Lawson at Pink Bull, Bortoleto at Sauber, Doohan at Alpine, and Hadjar at Racing Bulls. Precisely one yr after the unprecedented stagnation of the driving 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 recent air. Nevertheless, it received’t break a file that has stood for greater than seven seasons.

The file 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 monitor 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 various 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 median 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 consequence 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 typical in a season already crammed with younger drivers. File or not, it’s plain that the typical age in F1 is dropping dramatically, by practically two years, between the 2024 Bahrain GP and the upcoming 2025 Australian GP, regardless that all returning drivers are, naturally, a yr older.

The 2025 Components 1 season opener in Melbourne will characteristic 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 file might nonetheless be damaged, significantly if one of many three veterans — Fernando Alonso (43), Lewis Hamilton (40), or Nico Hulkenberg (37) — have been to overlook a race or be unable to take part as a consequence of a technical subject 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 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
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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