Jack Crawford will make his FP1 debut with Aston Martin at subsequent weekend’s Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix.
The American joined Aston Martin at first of final season after leaving the Crimson Bull Junior program and impressed for the workforce within the simulator alongside this 12 months’s F2 championship problem. The 20-year-old made his F1 debut taking up Lance Stroll’s automotive over the race weekend, making his first FP1 look in Mexico Metropolis.
Group principal Andy Cowell mentioned Crawford had earned the chance because of his work on F1 initiatives for the workforce.
“It is nice to present Jack the chance to take part in FP1 in Mexico,” mentioned Cowell. “He has proven actual maturity and supplied robust technical suggestions all year long. These periods are an necessary a part of how we develop younger expertise.
“Jack has had a powerful season in F2 and has contributed considerably to the event of each the AMR25 and AMR26. This can be a nice alternative for him to proceed his progress whereas serving to us acquire worthwhile information.”
Crawford is collaborating on this weekend’s US Grand Prix in a help function for Aston Martin, however the workforce will be unable to run the rookie in FP1 because the weekend dash format solely consists of one apply session.
“I’m excited to be driving the AMR25 in Mexico subsequent week and participating in my first official F1 session,” mentioned Crawford. “I’ve labored carefully with the workforce all 12 months lengthy, so it is actually thrilling to take the following step and get some observe time on Grand Prix weekend. After a busy week with the workforce and Aramco in Houston, making this announcement in my residence state of Texas makes it much more particular.”
Every workforce is required to make use of a brand new driver 4 occasions a 12 months, and Aston Martin already has two driver stints in Bahrain and Hungary courtesy of Felipe Dugovic, so Crawford might characteristic in Abu Dhabi for the second time on the finish of the 12 months.
Crawford would be the first American driver to participate in an official F1 session since Logan Sargent final raced for Williams within the 2024 Dutch Grand Prix.
