Good news for the rookie of the 2025 world championship: the FIA has increased the shifts of free practice from two to four in which the teams must compulsorily deploy a young man who has not raced more than two great prizes in Formula 1. For the current season, some stables have exploited the sessions played in Australia and China by pilots who are holding their first year in the premiere class declaring them as a debut tests. This is the case of Mercedes, Racing Bulls and Sauber with Antonelli, Hadjar and Bortoleto. He did not use the same Alpine strategy with Doohan, who in 2024 ran only one race. In Bahrain six teams have decided to deploy their young people in the FP1, including Ferrari and Mercedes. That’s who I am
