Jak Crawford on life as Aston Martin F1 reserve driver in 2025

The reserve driver role is one of motorsport's more psychologically demanding positions — you train at race pace, you understand the car deeply, and then you watch. Crawford's account gives a rare honest look at what that limbo actually feels like from the inside, rather than the polished version teams tend to present. For anyone tracking the junior-to-F1 pipeline, how a driver handles this waiting period often says as much about their future prospects as their lap times. The piece is worth reading as a character study as much as a career update.