This will be the starting number of debutant Tsunoda at AlphaTauri!

Yuki Tsunoda finished third in the F2 Championship and will replace Daniil Kvyat at AlphaTauri in 2021. Pierre Gasly's new teammate will drive there with starting number 22. The starting number that previously belonged to Button was used for the last time in 2017.

Three new starting numbers in 2021

Button was already using it at Brawn GP when he became champion, but when he had to fill in for Fernando Alonso in the Monaco race in 2017, just after he retired, the starting number came back. Tsunoda chooses to rejoin the grid in 2021 with the number.

Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin, Haas F1's new driver duo, have chosen numbers 47 and 9 respectively, as they announced earlier.

Starting number 1

Striking fact is that starting number 1 has not been used since 2014. That starting number only belongs to the winner of last season. Lewis Hamilton has chosen not to put the number on his car.

Since then, the number hasn't appeared, given that the Briton claims the title almost every year. Only Nico Rosberg beat him after that in 2016. However, the German chose not to return to the grid in 2017.