All 11 Formula 1 teams are obliged to run a ‘rookie’ driver in each of their cars twice during the 2026 season – meaning four outings are required in total. <\/p>\n
Rookies are defined by the regulation as any driver who has completed no more than one grand prix.<\/p>\n
Arvid Lindblad’s rookie status means Racing Bulls had already satisfied the requirement on his side of the garage by round two in China.<\/p>\n
Below you’ll find a list of all the FP1 rookies to have driven so far this season. <\/p>\n
2026 FP1 rookie runs <\/p>\n
McLaren (2)
Leonardo Fornaroli: Barcelona, Hungary <\/p>\n
Mercedes (2)
Frederik Vesti: Barcelona, Hungary <\/p>\n
Red Bull (1)
Ayumu Iwasa: Barcelona <\/p>\n
Ferrari (2)
Dino Beganovic: Barcelona, Austria<\/p>\n
Williams (2*)
Luke Browning: Austria <\/p>\n
*Barcelona attempted but Browning didn’t partake<\/p>\n
Racing Bulls (3)
Arvid Lindblad: Australia, China
Ayumu Iwasa: Austria<\/p>\n
Aston Martin (3)
Jak Crawford: Japan, Austria, Belgium<\/p>\n
Haas (2)
Ryo Hirakawa: Austria, Hungary <\/p>\n
Audi (2)
Paul Aron: Barcelona, Austria <\/p>\n
Alpine (1)
Paul Aron: Hungary <\/p>\n
Cadillac (2)
Colton Herta: Barcelona, Hungary <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All 11 Formula 1 teams are obliged to run a ‘rookie’ driver in each of their cars twice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-817166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817166","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=817166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}