Founded | 2001 |
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Base | Milton Keynes, England, UK |
Team principal(s) | Helmut Marko |
Current drivers | Super Formula Ayumu Iwasa FIA Formula 2 Isack Hadjar Pepe Martí Oliver Goethe FIA Formula 3 Arvid Lindblad Tim Tramnitz FR European Championship Enzo Deligny Spanish F4 James Egozi Enzo Tarnvanichkul Ernesto Rivera French F4 Jules Caranta Karting Fionn McLaughlin Scott Lindblom Rocco Coronel Christopher Feghali |
Website | https://www.redbull.com/int-en/juniorteam |
The Red Bull Junior Team, commonly referred to as the Red Bull Driver Academy, is a driver development programme run by the conglomerate company Red Bull GmbH in an attempt to identify potential future racing stars in open wheel racing. The similar Red Bull Driver Search, now ended, was an American spinoff of the same idea held in 2005. Members of the Junior Team are financed and sponsored by Red Bull in lower racing formulae.
The programs have been successful in bringing a selection of drivers into Formula One. Five of them, Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo, Max Verstappen, Pierre Gasly, and Carlos Sainz Jr. have won a Formula One race, with two of them (Vettel and Verstappen) having won at least three World Championships. Red Bull owns two teams in Formula One, Red Bull Racing and RB.
The Red Bull Junior Team was also the name of RSM Marko, a team that competed in International Formula 3000 between 1999 and 2003, sponsored by Red Bull and run by Helmut Marko.
The Red Bull Junior Team was formed in 2001 as Red Bull's European driver programme. Red Bull offers funding and support for the promising young drivers that are part of the programme. In 2004, Christian Klien became the first Red Bull Junior to race in Formula One, while in 2008, Sebastian Vettel became the first Red Bull Junior to win a Formula One Grand Prix, the Italian Grand Prix. Two years later, in 2010, Vettel became the first Red Bull Junior graduate to win the Formula One World Championship.
In 2024, Red Bull formed a separate programme, called the Red Bull Ford Academy Programme, to support the team's F1 Academy drivers.
Driver | Years | Current Series | Titles as Red Bull Junior |
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Ayumu Iwasa [1] [lower-alpha 1] | 2021– | Super Formula Championship | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
Arvid Lindblad [1] | 2021– | Formula Regional Middle East Championship FIA Formula 3 Championship | WSK Euro Series - OK WSK Final Cup - OK Macau Formula 4 Race |
Isack Hadjar [2] | 2022– | FIA Formula 2 Championship | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
Enzo Deligny [3] | 2023– | Formula 4 UAE Championship Formula Regional European Championship | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
Enzo Tarnvanichkul [3] | 2023– | Formula Winter Series F4 Spanish Championship | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
Pepe Martí [4] | 2023– | FIA Formula 2 Championship | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
Tim Tramnitz [5] | 2023– | FIA Formula 3 Championship | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
Oliver Goethe [6] | 2023– | Middle East Trophy FIA Formula 3 Championship FIA Formula 2 Champsionship | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
James Egozi [7] | 2024– | Formula Winter Series F4 Spanish Championship | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
Fionn McLaughlin [8] | 2024– | Karting (OK) | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
Scott Lindblom [8] | 2024– | Karting (OK) | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
Ernesto Rivera [9] | 2024– | F4 Spanish Championship | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
Jules Caranta [9] | 2024– | French F4 Championship | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
Rocco Coronel [9] | 2024– | Karting (OK) | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
Christopher Feghali [9] | 2024– | Karting (OK) | None as Red Bull Junior Team member |
This list includes drivers who have graduated from the Junior Team to Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri/RB but have not raced for Red Bull Racing. Former Red Bull Junior Team drivers who have driven for Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri/RB and Red Bull Racing appear on the Graduates to Red Bull Racing table.
This section needs to be updated.(August 2021) |
The scheme has been successful, with several of the drivers backed by Red Bull making it into Formula One:
As well as these, Red Bull has supported many up-and-coming young drivers:
Red Bull Driver Search was an American spin-off run from 2002 to 2005 in parallel with the Red Bull Junior Team. Its aim was "Searching for the future American F1 Champion". The winner was Scott Speed, who went on to compete in F1 in 2005 as a test driver for Red Bull.[ citation needed ]
In 2024, Red Bull set up the Red Bull Ford Academy Programme to support the team's F1 Academy drivers. [33] [34] F1 Academy was founded by Formula One as a racing series aimed at developing and preparing young female drivers to progress to higher levels of competition. [35]
Driver | Years | F1 Academy titles as Red Bull Academy Programme member |
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Amna Al Qubaisi | 2024 | None as Red Bull Academy Programme member |
Hamda Al Qubaisi [36] | 2024 | None as Red Bull Academy Programme member |
Emely de Heus [37] | 2024 | None as Red Bull Academy Programme member |
Sources: [38] |
International Formula 3000 Championship Results [39] | |||||||||
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Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
1999 | Lola B99/50-Zytek | Enrique Bernoldi | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18th | ? |
Markus Friesacher | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
Ricardo Mauricio | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22nd | |||
2000 | Lola B99/50-Zytek | Ricardo Mauricio | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17th | 9th |
Enrique Bernoldi | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16th | |||
2001 | Lola B99/50-Zytek | Patrick Friesacher | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 13th | 5th |
Antonio García | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
Ricardo Mauricio | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 8th | |||
2002 | Lola B02/50-Zytek | Patrick Friesacher | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 10th | 5th |
Ricardo Mauricio | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 11th | |||
2003 | Lola B02/50-Zytek | Vitantonio Liuzzi | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 4th | 2nd |
Patrick Friesacher | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 5th | |||
Bernhard Auinger | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
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