On the again of his fourth Method One world championship title, it has emerged that Max Verstappen will retain his beginning quantity, clinging on to no 1 on his RB21. F1Technical’s lead journalist Balazs Szabo reveals which beginning numbers the 20 driver will race with in 2025.
Though the Hasselt-born racer’s chosen race quantity is 33, Max Verstappen will proceed to race below the primary subsequent season, having secured his fourth-consecutive F1 drivers’ title.
The present system was launched in 2014, and the principles dictate that the reigning world champion can determine whether or not he makes use of his personal race quantity or the primary.
For the reason that introduction of the system, Verstappen is the primary to adorn the number one on his automotive since Sebastian Vettel did in that first 12 months. Lewis Hamilton, who has received six drivers’ championships since that time, opted to stay together with his quantity 44 for every of his title defences.
His former team-mate Nico Rosberg secured the drivers’ title in 2016, however he elected to retire from the game simply days after profitable the crown, which meant that he was by no means in a position to race with the primary on his automotive.
Changing seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, Andrea Kimi Antonelli has elected to make use of quantity 12 whereas Ferrari junior driver Oliver Bearman has opted to run quantity 87.
Following Esteban Ocon’s sudden and shock departure from Alpine forward of the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Jack Doohan made his F1 debut with Alpine sooner than thought. The Australian will race with the quantity 7.
Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto elected to make use of quantity 5 as he’s set to make his F1 debut with Sauber in 2025.
Liam Lawson changed Daniel Ricciardo on the US Grand Prix at Austin, and the Kiwi opted for quantity 30 on his VCARB. With Lawson set to exchange Perez at Pink Bull, his vacant spot shall be changed by Isack Hadjar. The French driver, who ended this 12 months’s F2 championship in second behind Gabriel Bortoleto, shall be operating with quantity 6, carrying the identical quantity as Nico Rosberg and Nicholas Latifi.
1 – Max Verstappen4 – Lando Norris5 – Gabriel Bortoleto6 – Isack Hadjar7 – Jack Doohan10 – Pierre Gasly12 – Andrea Kimi Antonelli14 – Fernando Alonso
16 – Charles Leclerc18 – Lance Stroll22 – Yuki Tsunoda23 – Alexander Albon27 – Nico Hulkenberg30 – Liam Lawson31 – Esteban Ocon44 – Lewis Hamilton55 – Carlos Sainz63 – George Russell81 – Oscar Piastri87 – Oliver Bearman
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