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The 2025 Formula 1 entry list has revealed the race numbers for four rookies added to the grid, as well as confirming a revised name for Red Bull's second team.
The team is now formally entered as Visa Cash App Racing Bulls Formula One Team, marking a pivot from 'RB' to 'Racing Bulls' as the team's preferred nomenclature - as explained by team CEO Peter Bayer during the final round of the 2024 season.
"People [are] struggling with the RB thing alone, because some of them mixed it up with Red Bull. Others didn't really know what it stands for," said Bayer.
"So that's why we decided to clarify that, and basically what you will see in the future is Visa Cash App Racing Bulls, and VCARB as an abbreviation."
Four new driver numbers have also been rubberstamped, with Mercedes newcomer Kimi Antonelli taking #12, Alpine debutant Jack Doohan taking over #7, Haas recruit Ollie Bearman choosing the #87 and Sauber rookie Gabriel Bortoleto going ahead with #5.
Both Antonelli and Doohan wanted #12 as their number, but Mercedes lodging the application first means Doohan has instead picked the number that was previously used by Kimi Raikkonen in this current era of permanent F1 driver numbers.
And Bortoleto becomes the second driver during said era to pick #5 after it had become synonymous with Sebastian Vettel.
Bearman and Doohan have both raced in F1 already, in 2024, but used the relevant teams' assigned 'spare' driver numbers - Bearman running #38 at Ferrari and #50 at Haas and Doohan racing #61 for Alpine.
The entry list also includes Sergio Perez in the Red Bull and a 'TBC' driver alongside Yuki Tsunoda at Racing Bulls - but that is not an impediment to Perez being replaced, as is expected, with either Tsunoda or Liam Lawson, nor to Red Bull junior Isack Hadjar getting the 'TBC' Racing Bulls slot.
