Frenchman Hadjar gets final F1 seat for 2025

Frenchman Isack Hadjar has been promoted to Red Bull's 2nd squad to title alongside Japanese Yuki Tsunoda during the 2025 Formula 1 season.

The announcement fills the last spot connected the 20-car F1 grid.

Hadjar is simply a replacement astatine the squad that will now beryllium known arsenic Racing Bulls for Liam Lawson, who has been switched to Red Bull aft they dropped Sergio Perez.

Hadjar, 20, vanished 2nd successful Formula 2 past play to Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto, who will beryllium racing for Audi-owned Sauber successful F1 adjacent year.

Racing Bulls squad main Laurent Mekies said: "Isack's travel to F1has been thing short of outstanding. He has shown singular growth, pinch a bid of awesome results successful the inferior single-seater ranks.

"He has the talent and thrust basal to compete astatine the highest level, and we person each assurance that he will accommodate quickly and make a important impact. I judge Isack and Yuki will make a awesome team."

Hadjar said: "The travel from karting done the ranks successful single-seaters, to now being successful F1 is the infinitesimal I've been moving towards my full life, it is the dream.

"I consciousness for illustration I'm stepping into a full caller universe, driving a overmuch faster car and racing pinch the champion drivers successful the world. It'll beryllium a immense learning curve, but I'm fresh to activity difficult and do the champion I tin for the team."

The announcement besides efficaciously confirms a alteration successful a measurement of referring to the squad for adjacent year.

Red Bull's 2nd squad raced arsenic RB successful 2024 but the Lawson and Hadjar announcements this week person some referred to them arsenic Racing Bulls.

The initials RB were short for Racing Bulls, and were utilized because the institution felt that the afloat squad sanction including its title sponsor, a in installments paper company, was excessively wordy.

But the team's email addresses each utilized the sanction Racing Bulls this year, and now Red Bull has decided the original sanction will beryllium utilized aft all.

Racing Bulls main executive serviceman Peter Bayer said past month: "The only mobility passim the twelvemonth was: 'What does RB mean, what does RB mean? Now we're making it official: RB intends Racing Bulls."

The caller sanction was reflected connected the official FIA F1 2025 introduction list,, external which was published past week.