System 1 driver Isack Hadjar is the winner of Autosport’s 2025 Rookie of the Yr Award.
The 21-year-old Frenchman, who’s graduating to the Purple Bull group in 2026 alongside Max Verstappen, completed twelfth within the drivers’ standings with Racing Bulls.
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Motorsport readers voted Hadjar the very best rookie of 2025 from an expanded listing of nominees that included fellow F1 drivers Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Olle Bearman and Gabriel Bortoleto, MotoGP’s Fermin Aldeguer, System E frontrunner Taylor Barnard, F2 champion Leonardo Fornaroli, NASCAR Cup road-course king Shane van Gisbergen and NASCAR Xfinity rising star Connor Zilisch.
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Hadjar’s success was introduced on 21 January on the thirty eighth on the Roundhouse in London in entrance of many different motorsport stars.
“I truly had no thought, Laurent [Mekies] invited me and he isn’t even right here! I wasn’t positive about coming tonight and right here I’m,” Hadjar mentioned. “Thanks to my PR Alice, I used to be on the sim yesterday and realised then I ahd to come back. Thanks to VCARB for an incredible 12 months, my maiden podium which I didn’t suppose was potential. Now for an enormous 12 months with the primary group and I can not consider it.”
Earlier winners of the accolade, which is open to skilled racing drivers of their first season of their respective classes, embrace Jenson Button, Juan Pablo Montoya, Mark Webber, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Verstappen, Charles Leclerc three-time victor Oscar Piastri.
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Different classes determined by fan voting embrace Driver of the Yr, Second of the Yr introduced by Bahrain Worldwide Circuit, Competitors Automotive of the Yr, Rally Driver of the Yr and British Competitors Driver of the Yr. Two new awards for 2025 are Workforce of the Yr and Creator of the Yr.
Additional awards, determined by professional judging panels, embrace the Pioneering and Innovation Award, Promoter of the Yr and Model Partnership of the Yr.
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