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Frenchman Isack Hadjar has been promoted to Red Bull's 2nd squad to contention 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 volition present beryllium known arsenic Racing Bulls for Liam Lawson, who has been switched to Red Bull aft they dropped Sergio Perez.
Hadjar, 20, finished 2nd successful Formula 2 past play to Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto, who volition beryllium racing for Audi-owned Sauber successful F1 adjacent year.
Racing Bulls squad main Laurent Mekies said: "Isack's travel to F1has been thing abbreviated of outstanding. He has shown singular growth, with a bid of awesome results successful the inferior single-seater ranks.
"He has the endowment and thrust indispensable to vie astatine the highest level, and we person each assurance that helium volition accommodate rapidly and marque a important impact. I judge Isack and Yuki volition marque a large team."
Hadjar said: "The travel from karting done the ranks successful single-seaters, to present being successful F1 is the infinitesimal I've been moving towards my full life, it is the dream.
"I consciousness similar I'm stepping into a full caller universe, driving a overmuch faster car and racing with the champion drivers successful the world. It'll beryllium a immense learning curve, but I'm acceptable to enactment hard and bash the champion I tin for the team."
The announcement besides efficaciously confirms a alteration successful a mode 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 abbreviated for Racing Bulls, and were utilized due to the fact that the institution felt that the afloat squad sanction including its rubric sponsor, a recognition paper company, was excessively wordy.
But the team's email addresses each utilized the sanction Racing Bulls this year, and present Red Bull has decided the archetypal sanction volition beryllium utilized aft all.
Racing Bulls main enforcement serviceman Peter Bayer said past month: "The lone question passim the twelvemonth was: 'What does RB mean, what does RB mean? Now we're making it official: RB means Racing Bulls."
The caller sanction was reflected connected the official FIA F1 2025 introduction list,, external which was published past week.
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