F1 2025 driver line-up: Who is confirmed for the 2025 grid?
The F1 2025 grid has been filling up fast, but who already has a place on it?
While the 2023 silly season was something of a damp squib, 2024 really was the season of change as teams made their driver plans for F1 2025.
Only seven drivers had contracts until the 2025 campaign going into the 2024 season, which left 13 seats available for what would almost certainly leave room open for several bold team moves and reshuffles on the F1 grid. That indeed proved the case and the F1 2025 grid is now set, so here is a breakdown of every team on the grid and the current state of play over their seats for the F1 2025 season:
Red Bull
Max Verstappen (Contract until end of 2028 season)
Liam Lawson (Contract for 2025)
Verstappen signed a mega six-year contract extension after his first title-winning season with Red Bull in 2021 and he will barely be halfway through it by the time he reaches 2025.
Sergio Perez was due to be joining him on the grid after a two-year contract extension, but his decision to step away from the team set up an open cockpit within the team to fill, which went to Liam Lawson who stepped up from Racing Bulls.
Mercedes
George Russell (Contract until end of 2025 season)
Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Contract covering at least 2025 season)
Mercedes confirmed George Russell and Lewis Hamilton would remain as team-mates until the end of 2025, until Hamilton made his switch to Ferrari for 2025 – a move few had seen coming.
The team waited until the Italian Grand Prix to confirm the identity of Hamilton’s replacement, with teenage sensation Andrea Kimi Antonelli promoted from F2.
Ferrari
Charles Leclerc (Contract for ‘several more seasons’ beyond 2025)
Lewis Hamilton (Contract is “multi-year”)
Leclerc is confirmed on a new contract with Ferrari that will take him into F1 2025, but the Scuderia haven’t confirmed just how long his new deal is for.
On the other side of the garage, Lewis Hamilton will make a sensational switch from Mercedes to join Ferrari on a “multi-year” deal that begins in 2025.
Aston Martin
Lance Stroll (Contract for ‘2025 and beyond’)
Fernando Alonso (“Multi-year contract” until at least end of 2026)
Having been linked with Mercedes and Red Bull in the early months of 2024, Fernando Alonso put pen to paper on a “multi-year contract” to remain with Aston Martin until at least 2026, setting him up for a reunion with his old friends Honda.
As for Lance Stroll, his contractual status had appeared to have been on a rolling basis, but the team confirmed a new deal in June 2024 for ‘2025 and beyond’ without an exact end date.
McLaren
Lando Norris (Contract for ‘multi-year extension’ beyond 2025)
Oscar Piastri (Contract until end of 2026)
Lando Norris signed a long-term contract extension with McLaren that will keep him with the team beyond the end of 2025, fending off any advances from other teams for his services.
Oscar Piastri, meanwhile, penned a new contract with the team before the end of his debut season in 2023 that would see him through until the end of 2026, after impressing on his rookie year.
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Alpine
Pierre Gasly (Contracted until at least end of 2026)
Jack Doohan (Contract for 2025)
On Thursday June 27, Alpine announced that Pierre Gasly would be staying with the team until at least the end of 2026 season, having signed a new multi-year deal with the team.
He will have a new team-mate, though, as it was confirmed in early June that Esteban Ocon will be leaving the team at the end of the season. And Jack Doohan is that new team-mate, Alpine confirming on Friday August 23 that he will step up from reserve to race driver for F1 2025.
Williams
Alex Albon (Contracted until at least end of 2026)
Carlos Sainz (Contracted until at least end of 2026)
Alex Albon committed his long-term future to Williams in mid-May with a new ‘multi-year’ contract announced by the team ahead of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola.
After months of speculation, Williams announced that Carlos Sainz would be Albon’s new team-mate from the start of F1 2025 after signing a two-year deal until the end of 2026 “with options to extend.”
Haas
Oliver Bearman (“Multi-year” contract until at least end of 2026)
Esteban Ocon (“Multi-year” contract until at least end of 2026)
Haas renewed both Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen’s contracts for the F1 2024 season after doing a solid job alongside each other in 2023, but it will be an all-new line-up for 2025 and 2026 with Oliver Bearman and Esteban Ocon both snapped up.
Stake F1 Team
Nico Hulkenberg (“Multi-year” contract until at least end of 2026)
Gabriel Bortoleto (“Multi-year” contract starting from 2025)
Sauber/Stake/Audi have opted for an all-new driver-line-up for the 20225 with Nico Hulkenberg and Gabriel Bortoleto replacing Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu.
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Yuki Tsunoda (Contract until end of 2025)
Isack Hadjar (Contract until end of 2025)
Red Bull signed Yuki Tsunoda for a fifth season to their sister team, RB, on another one-year deal at the Canadian Grand Prix in 2024 after sterling performances to start the 2024 season.
And stepping up to fill the second seat is Isack Hadjar, as the Frenchman graduates from Formula 2 after finishing runner-up to 2024 champion Gabriel Bortoleto.
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