GB3 champion Louis Sharp will develop into the youngest-ever driver to compete on the Race of Champions when he takes half within the 2025 competitors in Sydney subsequent month.
Former drivers similar to four-time world champion , ex-Haas driver and decade-long veteran are within the occasion at Accor Stadium on 7-8 March.
And New Zealand racer Sharp will develop into the primary 17-year-old to compete within the prestigious occasion. was the earlier youngest record-holder, when he competed in 2018 on the age of 18.
Sharp gained the British F4 championship in 2023 and backed that up by claiming victory in GB3 final 12 months. Sharp will compete in Method 3 this 12 months, making his debut on the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 14-16 March.
“It’s an unimaginable honour to have been invited to affix such a tremendous checklist of true motorsport heroes on this 12 months’s Race of Champions,” mentioned Sharp.
“It’s loopy to assume I used to be born in the identical 12 months Sebastian Vettel gained his first ROC Nations Cup title, and I now get to race in opposition to the very icons grew up admiring.”
Within the Race of Champions, pairs from world wide compete in opposition to one another, in addition to head-to-head for the person title. Sharp will compete alongside rally champion Hayden Paddon for New Zealand.
“I don’t wish to put any further strain on Louis however this younger man appears spectacularly fast and mature for his age,” mentioned Race of Champions president Fredrik Johnsson.
“Each on occasion a younger expertise comes alongside that deserves your consideration; Louis actually falls into that class and we’re delighted to have the ability to invite him to our first Race Of Champions within the Southern Hemisphere.
“Will probably be an ideal alternative for him to fulfill a few of his childhood heroes like Sebastian Vettel and for the world to find this future star.
“Louis has been nominated by critics as an F1 star of the longer term and I’ve little doubt that in just a few years’ time we will probably be saying ‘I noticed that child for the primary time on the Race Of Champions at Accor Stadium in Sydney’.”
