Aramco presents 2024 F2 Best Performer Award and F3 Best Rookie Award

The ceremony took place after the F2 season finale in Abu Dhabi on December 8, 2024.

Al-Zamil presented the Aramco Formula 2 Best Performer Award to 2024 F2 runner-up Isack Hadjar for his race weekend in Australia at Melbourne’s Albert Park Circuit, where he won the F2 feature race from eighth on the grid - after crossing the line first in the F2 sprint race before being demoted to sixth by a post-race 10-second penalty.

Aramco F2 Best Performer Award winner Hadjar said: “Thank you very much to Aramco for this great trophy. It highlights my race weekend in Melbourne, which was my best memory of the year. It started my season and it ended a long wait of zero podiums. It was the start of a great, great season. In my mind I won both races, I did the double, so it's cool.”

The Aramco Formula 3 Best Rookie Award was presented to Arvid Lindblad, who finished fourth this year with five wins and five podiums for Prema. Lindblad, a Red Bull junior driver, will step up to F2 next season with Campos Racing.

“Thank you very much to Aramco for the Best Rookie trophy. It’s going to look amazing in the trophy cabinet and it’s a great addition. I think it’s amazing what they’re doing to support F2 and F3 as well as F1, so I’m really grateful to them,” said Lindblad.

“A really good season, winning the Best Rookie [award] - lots of victories, a really good team behind me, and an amazing campaign that was much better than I expected. I’m really grateful - thank you again to Aramco for the trophy.”

Bruno Michel, F2 and F3 CEO, said: “Aramco are great partners of Formula 2 and Formula 3, and we are very pleased that once again that they have chosen to present awards to two worthy winners in Isack Hadjar and Arvid Lindblad.

“Hadjar’s comeback in Melbourne won him the Aramco Best Performance Award in F2 and truly shows he has the racing mentality to succeed at the highest of levels of motorsport. Meanwhile, Lindblad’s 2024 F3 campaign resulted in his Aramco Best Rookie Award at just 17 years old. We are excited to see the future of these two stars and are incredibly grateful to Aramco for their support.”

The F2 and F3 awards took place at the Billionaire venue at the Taj Hotel, Business Bay, Dubai. Senior delegates from Formula 1, Formula 2 and Formula 3, along with industry experts, drivers, and team principals, attended the ceremony.

“We are delighted as Aramco to be presenting the Best Rookie Aaward to the best newcomer of the 2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship, and the Best Performing Driver of the 2024 FIA Formula 2 Championship - two championships that demonstrate the fiercest competition on the road to Formula 1,” said Al-Zamil.

In 2023, the Aramco Advanced Fuel Best Performance Award was awarded to Richard Verschoor and Jack Doohan for their respective efforts in the F2 feature races in Austria and Belgium.