He is the latest name on the Red Bull team sheet to have come through their junior programme with 18 drivers in the past having graduated along the same pathway.
How has the young driver's career up until now prepared him for this mammoth moment and who will be the people cheering him on when he makes his debut in Melbourne in March?
The 22-year-old's elevation - confirmed on Thursday - pairs him with reigning world champion Max Verstappen. His big chance comes after Perez's departure.
Max Verstappen has paid a touching tribute to Sergio Perez after the Mexican driver confirmed Formula One's worst-kept secret that he is leaving Red Bull.
JONATHAN McEVOY: The 34-year-old Mexican is moving out after a tough season. A talented driver, his form was nevertheless shot and he finished 224 points behind Verstappen, in eighth place.
Perez penned a two-year extension with the Austrian manufacturer in May this year but he has since finished eighth in the driver's championship, 285 points behind Verstappen .
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY AADAM PATEL: Much has been documented about his love for virtual racing. His motorhome has a simulator. In May, he used it to win two races in 24 hours.
Hamilton shook the world of racing when he announced prior to the 2024 season that the upcoming year would be his final with the team he has won six of his seven world championships at.
The campaign concluded at the weekend in Abu Dhabi, with Lando Norris winning the final race of the season to ensure McLaren secured the Constructors' Championship title.
Fritsche was a close confidant of the Schumacher family for eight years, but when they decided to let him go in 2020, it has been alleged that he became bitter and hatched a blackmail plot.
JONATHAN McEVOY: The 2024 season was one of ups and downs, lefts and rights, spins, accusations, and bickers. And we'll do it all over again in three months for the 2025 campaign.
JONATHAN McEVOY AT THE YAS MARINA CIRCUIT: He was not entirely recrimination-free, however, talking of how hard it was going up against world champion Max Verstappen.
Hamilton worked his way through the field in Abu Dhabi, charging after team-mate George Russell in the closing stages and making a final-lap move which secured fourth in his final race for the team.
JONATHAN MCEVOY IN ABU DHABI: Lando Norris delivered. And it was fist pumps all round and deep breaths exhaled and bear hugs exchanged - McLaren were world constructors' champions.
It was a dramatic start to the race, with Verstappen appearing to come up the inside of the Aussie driver, making contact before the pair spun out on the track.
The ever-charismatic Aussie is yet to publicly speak out on his plans for the future and whether we'll see him behind the wheel of a racing car again in the future.
JONATHAN McEVOTY: The reel showed Lewis Hamilton as a boy karter, a kid dreaming his dreams, and ended with David Croft's commentary hailing the Briton as a seven-times world champion.
Max Verstappen and his partner Kelly Piquet announced on Friday that they are expecting a baby. They wrote a joint post across their Instagram accounts to confirm the news.
Max Verstappen and George Russell were pictured side-by-side in what can only be described as an awkward end-of-season photograph amid their ongoing feud.
When an Italian magazine conducted a poll to establish whose shoes its male readership would most like to fill, there were more likely candidates than Flavio Briatore, the Renault F1 team boss.
JONATHAN McEVOY: The furore, which is genuine but yet to play out on track in the way previous rivalries did, such as Senna and Prost, Is the perfect bookend to this season of controversy.
Oscar Piastri is moving closer to being part of a world championship-winning team while Australia's newest Formula One driver Jack Doohan will make his debut in Abu Dhabi
The Red Bull driver is currently celebrating yet another World Championship which was sealed as he finished ahead of Lando Norris at the Las Vegas Grand Prix last month.