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Jak Crawford will continue driving for DAMS for a second season – and his third in the category – in 2025.
After finishing 13th in the standings as a rookie with Hitech in 2023, American driver Crawford switched to DAMS for this year and has enjoyed a more positive campaign, winning the Barcelona feature race and currently sitting fifth in the points with two rounds remaining.
“With DAMS, we are going to come back stronger in 2025,” he said. “I have never been in a team for two years in a row, and we are determined as a group to win the championship in 2025. Racing is a team sport, not an individual sport. We will do it together and it will be rewarding.”
Crawford left the Red Bull junior team at the end of 2023 and joined Aston Martin, carrying out his first Formula 1 test with the team in June.
He is expecting further opportunities with the team before the end of this year and an expanded role into 2025, but has also teased additional news over the coming weeks.
“I have been chasing F1 since I was 12 years old and we are close now and not going to give up now,” said Crawford. “I will continue to build on my professionalism and take on short term pro driver opportunities that don’t get in the way of my F1 future.”
He added: “I have another year promised with Aston Martin. Maybe I will find an F1 opportunity with them, or maybe not.”
Crawford has also expanded his management team, linking up with Harry Soden of Infinity Sports Management – who has guided George Russell’s career – “to assist with how I can be on the F1 grid as early as 2026, but no later than 2027”.