Red Bull has announced that Ayumu Iwasa will deputise for Isack Hadjar for FP1 at this weekend’s Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Japanese driver will get his first outing in the RB22 alongside Max Verstappen, satisfying one of the Milton Keynes-based team’s four required rookie first free practice sessions of the F1 season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Isawa will be joined on track in Spain by a host of other rookie drivers. The F1 teams’ familiarity with the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya makes it an ideal place to swap out one of its usual drivers for FP1.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
This is even more so the case with the Bahrain Grand Prix not going ahead in April, which stripped the teams of a near-certain opportunity to partially fulfil the rule mandated by the FIA.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Also confirmed to be driving in FP1 are: Colton Herta for Cadillac, Leonardo Fornaroli for McLaren, Fred Vesti for Mercedes, Luke Browning for Williams and Paul Aron for Audi.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Iwasa’s inclusion means at least six of the 11 teams will have an alternate in one of its cars for the opening hour of running this weekend.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old finished fourth in the F2 standings in 2023, before returning to Japan to compete in Super Formula, where he won the drivers’ championship in 2025.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
He is also the test and reserve driver for Racing Bulls and has taken part in numerous FP1s in the past, as well as the end-of-season rookie test.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull has announced that Ayumu Iwasa will deputise for Isack Hadjar for FP1 at this weekend’s Barcelona-Catalunya…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-729254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}