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# Every rookie to drive in FP1 in F1 2025
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/every-rookie-to-drive-in-fp1-in-f1-2025/
- Published: 2025-12-03T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-03T15:03:00.000Z
- Description: Each Formula 1 team needs to satisfy the rule of running a ‘rookie’ driver in each of its cars during a season
- Author: The Race Team
- Tags: Formula 1, #hide-countdown, #alpine, #ferrari, #red-bull, #williams, #haas, #aston-martin, #mercedes, #image-top-right

Nine rookies took part in Formula 1's first practice session at the Mexican Grand Prix, with every team bar Sauber fielding a rookie. 

Each Formula 1 team needs to satisfy the rule of running a 'rookie' driver twice in each of its cars during a season.

Rookies are defined as any driver with no more than one grand prix start to their name. So Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) and Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber) all ticked off the rookie requirements for their cars in Australia and China at the start of the 2025 F1 season. 

As Ollie Bearman (Haas) already started three grands prix last year, he didn't count, while Alpine rookie Jack Doohan could have counted for Australia because he made his F1 debut in Abu Dhabi last year, but Alpine already planned to use rookies for four sessions.

In Abu Dhabi, eight of the 10 teams will field rookies, with Aston Martin choosing to field two. 

As well as its 2026 third driver Jak Crawford, Aston Martin will give another F2 driver, Cian Shields, his grand prix weekend debut in Abu Dhabi. 

He'll be joined by the likes of IndyCar race winner Pato O'Ward and Charles Leclerc's brother Arthur. 

## 2025 FP1 rookie runs 

**McLaren (4)**  
Alex Dunne - Austria, Italy  
Pato O'Ward - Mexico, Abu Dhabi

**Ferrari (4)**  
Dino Beganovic - Bahrain, Austria  
Antonio Fuoco - Mexico  
Arthur Leclerc - Abu Dhabi

**Red Bull (4)**  
Ayumu Iwasa - Bahrain  
Arvid Lindblad - Britain, Mexico, Abu Dhabi

**Mercedes (4)**  
Kimi Antonelli - Australia, China  
Frederick Vesti - Bahrain, Mexico

**Aston Martin (5)**  
Felipe Drugovich - Bahrain, Hungary  
Jak Crawford - Mexico, Abu Dhabi  
Cian Shields - Abu Dhabi

**Alpine (4)**  
*Jack Doohan - Australia (not counted)*   
Paul Aron - Italy, Mexico, Abu Dhabi   
Ryo Hirakawa - Japan

**Haas (4)**  
Ryo Hirakawa - Bahrain, Spain, Mexico, Abu Dhabi 

**Racing Bulls (4)**  
Isack Hadjar - Australia, China  
Ayumu Iwasa - Mexico, Abu Dhabi

**Williams (4)**  
Luke Browning - Bahrain, Mexico, Abu Dhabi  
Victor Martins - Spain

**Sauber (4)**  
Gabriel Bortoleto - Australia, China  
Paul Aron - Britain and Hungary