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Ranking the rookies: Who has impressed the most in 2025? (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2025-07-21 07:00:05 +0000 UTCWe rank the 2025 Formula 1 rookies in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast. Scott Mitchell-Malm and Ben Anderson join Edd Straw for an in-depth look at the campaigns of the six drivers we’ve classified as rookies.
Kimi Antonelli, Ollie Bearman, Isack Hadjar, Franco Colapinto, Gabriel Bortoleto are all delved into, with an evaluation of their strengths and weaknesses, their performance trends and what we need to see more, or less of, from them.
We then formulate our ranking of the rookie drivers in the 2025 season so far, albeit with the caveat that with a strong rookie crop there’s every chance that the positions will shuffle in the second half of the campaign.
Comments
Harshal Parmar
Over the last 2-3 Kimi discussions, I feel you guys are being a little too harsh on him. Yes he is not consistent and hasn't shown the flashes as often as you would like given his pre season hype but come on, he is so young, he quite literally finished school last month. I understand he is in a top seat and expectations are higher but I don't think we have seen enough to form an opinion either way.
Geoff Lacey
Think Bortoleto should be ahead of Bearman, but I get the reasoning. Antonelli has suffered massively in this ranking because of what we were sold we'd see. What I never expected (maybe naively) is Hadjar to be this good. Genuinely think all the top four will have good to great F1 careers
