From the cry of Isack Hadjar, to the beating of Jack Doohan and the comeback of Kimi Antonelli
Thus he went to the debutants who had Formula 1 in the Australian GP. The Italian of Mercedes was the best and Frenchman of Racing Bulls or came to start.
The 76th Formula 1 season presented five rookies on the grill, among them, three who had their absolute premiere in the Australian GP. In the quintet there were also two with a few kilometers in the race in the highest category: Oliver Beraman (three competitions) and Jack Doohan (UNA). The total baptism trio was integrated by Kimi Antonelli, Isack Hadjar and Gabriel Bortoleto. Here, a weekend review of each.
Isack hadjar
The French ascended the head of Racing Bulls after being runner -up of F2 and reserve of the Faenza Team in 2024. His weekend was dream and had been the best Rookie in the classification, when ensuring the 11th starting box. Hadjar had everything to silence those detractors who questioned their scrolls to have an armchair in F1. However, everything ended badly, so much that he did not even debut. Is that he lost control of his VCARB 02 in the previous return! The track very wet by the rain that fell early in Melbourne played a bad pass by accelerating the Honda engine, went into a spin and ended up hitting the wall. The Parisian could not hide his disconsolate crying and caused everyone to everyone, that Anthony Hamilton, Lewis’s father, comforted him in the walk towards the hospitality of his team. Even Stefano Domenicali, CEO of F1, went to support. In China, French will try to complete Australia’s failed debut.
Jack Doohan
Alpine’s Australian did not complete a return. The complicated track conditions played a bad pass by stepping on one of the many paint lines in the Albert Park asphalt (it is a semi -permanent that during the year has vehicular traffic) and ended up destroying the A525 against a wall. A very large disappointment for the pilot of the French team, who ran in the career of his house and, in addition, with Flavio Briatore’s magnifying glass on him. The assembly of a squad of four reserve pilots is not a good incentive for any corridor, especially if they do not come out with strong support.
Gabriel Bortoleto
Sauber’s Brazilian had a great Saturday as he advanced Q2 leaving Kimi Antonelli out. Before the race he had warned that he liked to run with rain and had been able to cope with the harsh conditions. But when the last chaparrón arrived, ten turns from the end, he lost control of his C45 and ended against the wall. A bittersweet premiere for the Paulista.
Oliver Bearman
The most experienced of the debutants achieved, at least, to finish the race. It was the best of the weekend for English, who had not been able to take his haas on the track in the first two days of activity. Incredibly, he could go better in the rain than on the dry floor. On Friday, during the first batch of rehearsals, he suffered a mistake and blow that left him out of the second session. On Saturday, the third training and classification could not turn through a problem in the box. The pilot who belongs to Ferrari left from boxes and was able to complete the race in the last place. For the lazy level of American cars (they were Ocon, it was penultimate) it seems that Bearman is waiting for a very long year.
Kimi Antonelli
By far, the best. He started 16th after an error in the classification that condemned him (Mercedes’s floor was broken when he went on a piano) and from there he achieved a great comeback that left him in the fourth final place, although a five -second penalty for insecure relaunch. However, the silver arrows appealed the sanction and their procedure was successful because the FIA finally decided to cancel the surcharge and recovered the fourth place. Amid the difficult track conditions, the 18 -year -old Italian made a spin, with the fate of not hitting anything. The Boloñés takes the prize for the best debutant of 2025.
