F1 drivers by age: From the oldest to the youngest

The F1 grid is getting younger overall for the 2025 season, with a raft of rookies joining the grid alongside established names.
With the F1 2025 grid confirmed, here are all the drivers listed in order from eldest to youngest. Who will be the oldest and youngest driver in 2025?
While no teenagers took part last season, Formula 1 is set to look much younger in 2025 as a raft of rookies arrive on the grid – making the average age fall significantly when the Australian Grand Prix comes around.
F1 drivers by age: From the oldest to the youngest
Who are the youngest drivers on the grid for F1 2025?
Oscar Piastri had held the title of the youngest driver on the grid for each of the past two seasons, but the six drivers who did not start the 2024 campaign are all younger than the Australian.
While only Piastri and Yuki Tsunoda were born after the year 2000 on the grid last season, 40% of the grid will now be born after that landmark year.
The new youngest driver on the grid will be Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who was born on 25th August 2006 – making him just 18 years old for a good portion of his first season on the grid, and one of the youngest ever Formula 1 drivers.
Next youngest will be Oliver Bearman, born on 8th May 2005, before two 2004-born rookies in Isack Hadjar and Gabriel Bortoleto, Jack Doohan born on 20th January 2003, and Liam Lawson on 11th February 2002.
Who are the oldest drivers on the grid for F1 2025?
There’s no sign of the Spaniard slowing down just yet, but the most experienced F1 driver ever (401 race starts at the conclusion of 2024), Fernando Alonso, is the eldest driver on the grid in 2025, born on July 29th 1981.
With Kimi Raikkonen retiring at the conclusion of 2021, Alonso becomes the only driver left to have driven in the old V10 era that ended at the conclusion of 2005.
While Alonso made his debut with Minardi in 2001, Lewis Hamilton entered the sport in 2007 as a fresh-faced upstart alongside Alonso at McLaren. Hamilton was born on January 7th 1985 and will join Alonso in his 40s once the season starts.
For the next earliest debutant. Nico Hulkenberg joined the sport with Williams in 2010. The Sauber driver was born on the August 19th 1987, and only he, Hamilton and Alonso will have driven in Formula 1 prior to the turbo hybrid era introduced in 2014.
Even though he only turned 30 in September 2024, Carlos Sainz now becomes the fourth-oldest driver on the grid – with older drivers than the Spaniard in Daniel Ricciardo, Sergio Perez, Kevin Magnussen and Valtteri Bottas all having left the grid for 2025.
What is the gap between the oldest and the youngest F1 driver in 2025?
The gulf between the oldest and youngest driver’s ages in 2025 is particularly eye-opening, at 24 years and 27 days between Fernando Alonso and Kimi Antonelli.
While the gap between Alonso and previous-youngest driver Piastri meant the Australian was born 33 days before Alonso undertook his first Grand Prix start, Antonelli was born midway through Alonso’s second title-winning season, with 25th August 2006 being free practice day at the Turkish Grand Prix, in Alonso’s case.
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What age is the reigning F1 World Champion?
Max Verstappen enters 2025 as the reigning F1 World Champion. The Dutch driver is 27 years old, and will turn 28 on the 30th September – towards the end of the 2025 campaign.
Verstappen was born in 1997, as was 2022 F1 title rival Charles Leclerc – the Monégasque driver was born just 17 days after Verstappen.
F1 2025 drivers: From eldest to youngest
- Fernando Alonso – 29/07/1981
- Lewis Hamilton – 07/01/1985
- Nico Hulkenberg – 19/08/1987
- Carlos Sainz – 01/09/1994
- Pierre Gasly – 07/02/1996
- Alex Albon – 23/03/1996
- Esteban Ocon – 17/09/1996
- Max Verstappen – 30/09/1997
- Charles Leclerc – 16/10/1997
- George Russell – 15/02/1998
- Lance Stroll – 29/10/1998
- Lando Norris – 13/11/1999
- Yuki Tsunoda – 11/05/2000
- Oscar Piastri – 06/04/2001
- Liam Lawson – 11/02/2002
- Jack Doohan – 20/01/2003
- Isack Hadjar – 28/09/2004
- Gabriel Bortoleto – 14/10/2004
- Oliver Bearman – 08/05/2005
- Kimi Antonelli – 25/08/2006
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