The youngest driver on the F1 grid is Yuki Tsunoda.
The AlphaTauri starlet is the only current F1 driver born in the 2000s, having been born on May 11, 2000.
Yuki Tsunoda is a Japanese racing driver who is racing for Scuderia AlphaTauri in Formula One.
Supported by Honda since 2016 through the Honda Formula Dream Project, he was the 2018 Japanese F4 champion and in 2019 also received backing from Red Bull.
Yuki Tsunoda finished third in the 2020 Formula 2 Championship and made his Formula One debut in 2021 for AlphaTauri, a team owned by Red Bull and using Honda engines.
Born in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Yuki Tsunoda started his professional karting career in 2010, joining the JAF Junior Karting Championship, before moving to the regional class in 2013 and to the national class in 2014.
In 2017, Yuki Tsunoda started his first full season of single-seater racing in the F4 Japanese Championship while also contesting in the regional East series of the JAF F4 Japanese Championship.
Yuki Tsunoda won the title of the regional championship while finishing third in the national Formula 4 championship. He contested both championships with Honda.
However, Max Verstappen at the age of 17 years, 166 days is the youngest driver to start a race.