GB3 champion Louis Sharp will grow to be 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 equivalent 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 grow to be 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 yr. Sharp will compete in Method 3 this yr, making his debut on the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 14-16 March.
“It’s an unbelievable honour to have been invited to hitch such a tremendous record of true motorsport heroes on this yr’s Race of Champions,” mentioned Sharp.
“It’s loopy to assume I used to be born in the identical yr Sebastian Vettel gained his first ROC Nations Cup title, and I now get to race towards the very icons grew up admiring.”
Within the Race of Champions, pairs from all over the world compete towards 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 need 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 once in a while 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 long run and I’ve little doubt that in a number of 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’.”
