Aarava

Aarav Aarava (December 31st, 1995) is a British Racing Driver.

## Formula One Career

### **2015**

Aarava made his debut in Formula One in 2015, replacing Kevin Magnussen at McLaren-Honda. He had a record breaking debut season, clinching the title at the final round in Suzuka for both the drivers and constructors championships with McLaren.

### **2016**

Aarava was rumoured of going to the Red Bull Racing team, as Aarava was seen talking in the paddock of Suzuka with Christian Horner. However, nothing was confirmed yet. A few weeks later, Aarava was announced to sign for the Mercedes F1 Team for a whopping $70,000,000 deal, to team up with Pascal Wehrlein.

Aarava lost the drivers championship title an incredible 1 point to Stoffel Vandoorne of McLaren-Honda, the team Aarava made his debut with. Mercedes lost the constructors championship to McLaren, meaning McLaren still had the strongest car on the F1 Grid in 2016.

### **2017**

Aarava stayed with Mercedes for the 2017 season, hungry to win a championship with the Silver Arrows. His team-mate was Pascal Wehrlein again. However, at the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix, Pascal Wehrlein was demoted to the Manor Racing Team to replace Alex Lynn. Lynn swapped Manor for Williams after the departure of Nico Rosberg. Rosberg would return to Mercedes after leaving them a few seasons ago.

Aarava finally fulfilled his dream of winning a championship with Mercedes, beating 2016 rival Stoffel Vandoorne by the small margin of 4 points, but Red Bull Racing clinched the constructors title, with Mercedes only finishing in 4th place overall after struggles with a second driver.

### **2018**

Aarava signed a deal with Red Bull in 2018, partnering alongside Pierre Gasly.
At the 2018 German Grand Prix, Aarava and Gasly had an collision on the front stretch in lap 33, the second-to-last lap. This resulted in a demotion for the Brit, after Red Bull put the blame on him. Aarava made sure, however, that Christian Horner would regret this decision by WINNING the Italian Grand Prix, in front of the promoted Antonio Giovinazzi. Sebastian Vettel would clinch his 5th World Title, this time with Ferrari, only 2 points over Aarava.

### **2019**

Aarava joined the rebranded Jaguar Team, after a fall out with Red Bull and Pierre Gasly.

Max Verstappen clinched the title in a fantastic 4-way title fight, in which alongside Verstappen, also Hamilton (McLaren), Aarava (Jaguar) and Sainz (Audi) participated in. Aarava lost the title with only 1 point to Verstappen and being tied with Hamilton for points.

### **2020**

Aarava stayed at Jaguar for the 2020 season, as he was confident in the team that they could get him a 3rd world title. He was as close as 2016, only 1 point of Carlos Sainz in the Audi. His team, Jaguar, managed to clinch the Constructors title.

### **2021**

Aarava stayed with Jaguar for the 2021 season. However, after the Spanish Grand Prix, Aarava left the team with immediate effect after publicly questioning the team's development of the car. Aarava joined Haas, replacing Hülkenberg. Hülkenberg on his part joined Red Bull, replacing Niko Kari. Niko Kari was dropped to reserve driver of Red Bull. Esteban Ocon joined Jaguar to replace Aarava and Fuoco got loaned out by Ferrari to join Williams.
Aarava went on to win his 3rd World Title, 3 points over former team-mate Gasly and 6 over Charles Leclerc.

### **2022**

Initially, this was going to be Aarava's last season in the sport, finishing off his career at Ferrari, with team-mate Charles Leclerc. Aarava got his first back-to-back championship win, clearing out Pierre Gasly, his 2021 rival, with only 2 points.

He also won the constructors championship with Ferrari.

### **2023**

Aarava announced on May 18th, 2020, that he would return to the sport for a single season. The 2023 season had huge changes to all the teams chassis's adding the Halo and removing the shark-fin. Aarava returned with McLaren. He took the championship at the season finale in Brazil. This year Aarava really retired from Formula One with multiple titles and wins.