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The Mercedes Junior Team is a driver development programme by the Mercedes-AMG F1 Team to help promote drivers from karts through the feeder series ladder to promote them to their Formula One team. All eligible drivers have been promoted to Formula One, with Pascal Wehrlein , Esteban Ocon and George Russell , the latter driving for Mercedes ...
In 2024, Red Bull set up the Red Bull Academy Programme to support the team's F1 Academy drivers. [33] [34] F1 Academy was founded by Formula One as a racing series aimed at developing and preparing young female drivers to progress to higher levels of competition. [35]
McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown said this was due to the team's "very targeted" approach and already stable Formula One line-up, meaning it would be difficult for any young drivers to find a place in Formula One. [2] [3] In April 2023, the Young Driver Programme was replaced by the Driver Development Programme. [4]
The sport's annual game of driver musical chairs is in full swing but Mercedes have a problem, with three of their highly-rated proteges still looking for a place and not enough available. Ocon, a ...
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In 1998, McLaren became the first Formula One team to establish a driver development program, founding the McLaren-Mercedes Young Driver Support Programme; [1] its initial cohort famously included 13-year-old kart racer Lewis Hamilton, [2] who became the first driver development program alumnus in Formula One to win the World Drivers' Championship in 2008. [3]
F1 sprint news as Mercedes, Ferrari and other teams vote at a Commission meeting on Tuesday for a change in the sprint weekend format for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku this weekend
Driver Academy experience F1 experience with Ferrari F1 experience with other teams Years Former series Jules Bianchi: 2009–2014 Formula 3 Euro Series GP2 Series (2010–2011) Formula Renault 3.5 Series Formula One (2013–2014) — Marussia (2013–2014) Sergio Pérez: 2010–2012 GP2 Series Formula One (2011–2012) — Sauber (2011–2012)