Mercedes Junior Team

The Mercedes Junior Team is a driver development programme by the Mercedes-AMG F1 Team to help promote drivers from karts through the feeder series ladder to promote them to their Formula One team. All eligible drivers have been promoted to Formula One, with Pascal Wehrlein (2016), Esteban Ocon (2016) and George Russell (2019), the latter driving for Mercedes from 2022 onwards. Andrea Kimi Antonelli graduated to Formula One with Mercedes in 2025.

Mercedes Junior Team

Founded	2014; 11 years ago (2014)
Base	Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
Team principal(s)	Gwen Lagrue (co-Director)
Current drivers	Formula 3 Noah Strømsted Formula Regional Rashid Al Dhaheri Doriane Pin GB3 Yuanpu Cui Formula 4 Andy Consani Ethan Jeff-Hall Alex Powell F1 Academy Doriane Pin Karting James Anagnostiadis Kenzo Craigie Luna Fluxá Julia Montlaur Many Nuvolini
Website	https://www.mercedesamgf1.com/team

Current drivers

Driver	Years	Current series	Titles achieved as Mercedes Junior Team member
Alex Powell[1]	2019–	F4 Middle East Championship Italian F4 Championship	none as Mercedes Junior Team member
Yuanpu Cui[2]	2021–	GB3 Championship Formula Regional Middle East Championship	none as Mercedes Junior Team member
Luna Fluxá[3]	2022–	Karting (OK)	none as Mercedes Junior Team member
Kenzo Craigie[4]	2023–	Karting (OKJ)	none as Mercedes Junior Team member
Doriane Pin[5]	2024–	F1 Academy Formula Regional European Championship Formula Regional Middle East Championship	none as Mercedes Junior Team member
James Anagnostiadis[6]	2024–	Karting (OKJ)	none as Mercedes Junior Team member
Rashid Al Dhaheri[7]	2025–	Formula Regional Middle East Championship Formula Regional European Championship GB3 Championship	none as Mercedes Junior Team member
Andy Consani[7]	2025–	French F4 Championship	none as Mercedes Junior Team member
Ethan Jeff-Hall[8]	2025–	F4 British Championship	none as Mercedes Junior Team member
Julia Montlaur[7]	2025–	Karting	none as Mercedes Junior Team member
Many Nuvolini[7]	2025–	Karting	none as Mercedes Junior Team member
Noah Strømsted[7]	2025–	FIA Formula 3 Championship	none as Mercedes Junior Team member

Graduates to Formula 1

This list contains the drivers that have graduated to Formula 1 with support from Mercedes. Therefore, drivers who have had support in the past and entered Formula 1 through other means are not included. Drivers who drove for other teams while still part of Mercedes' youth setup are highlighted in italics.

Driver	Academy experience		F1 experience with Mercedes	F1 experience with other teams
	Years	Former series
Pascal Wehrlein	2014–2018	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (2014–2015, 2018) Formula One (2016–2017)	—	Manor (2016) Sauber (2017)
Esteban Ocon	2015–2019	GP3 Series (2015) Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (2016) Formula One (2016–2018)	—	Manor (2016) Force India (2017–2018) Renault (2020) Alpine (2021–2024) Haas (2025–)
George Russell	2017–2021	GP3 Series (2017) FIA Formula 2 Championship (2018) Formula One (2019–2021)	2020, 2022–	Williams (2019–2021)
Andrea Kimi Antonelli	2018–2024	Italian F4 Championship (2021–2022) ADAC Formula 4 Championship (2022) Formula Regional Middle East Championship (2023) Formula Regional European Championship (2023) FIA Formula 2 Championship (2024)	2025–	—

Former drivers

Driver	Years	Series that driver competed as Mercedes Junior	F1 Team(s)
Paul Aron[9][10]	2019–2023	Italian F4 Championship (2019) ADAC F4 Championship (2019) Formula Renault Eurocup (2020) Formula Regional European Championship (2021–2022) Formula Regional Asian Championship (2022) FIA Formula 3 Championship (2023)	None
Frederik Vesti[11]	2021–2024	FIA Formula 3 Championship (2021) FIA Formula 2 Championship (2022–2023) European Le Mans Series – LMP2 (2024) GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup (2024)	None
Daniel Guinchard[3][12]	2022	F4 British Championship (2022)	None

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