2025 F1 drivers and teams

Jack Doohan to replace Ocon at Alpine F1 in 2025

Updated: Friday 23^rd August. Reserve and junior driver Jack Doohan will step up to a full-time Formula 1 drive with Alpine in 2025, replacing the outgoing Esteban Ocon. The 2021 F3 runner-up and six-time F2 race winner becomes the first Alpine junior driver to be promoted to a full-time F1 driver for the new year after spending 2024 working as the team's reserve and simulator driver. He'll spend the rest of 2024 undertaking a testing programme in the 2022 Alpine A522 to prepare for the upcoming promotion.

Speaking of the move Doohan said: “I am so happy to secure promotion into a full-time race seat in 2025 with BWT Alpine F1 Team. I am very grateful for the trust and belief by the team’s senior management. There is so much work ahead to be prepared and ready and I will give my best in the meantime to absorb as much information and knowledge to be ready for the step up."

F1 2025 drivers and teams

Carlos Sainz Jr. to join Williams in 2025

Updated: Monday 29^th July. Speculation surrounding Carlos Sainz’s Jr.’s future has been swirling ever since it was announced that Lewis Hamilton would be moving to Ferrari for the 2025 season, and finally it has been confirmed that Sainz’s future will be at Williams.

The Spaniard has signed a two-year deal with the British team with the option to extend, and will be partnering Alex Albon, replacing the departing Logan Sargeant. A three-time grand prix winner, Sainz was the only non-Red Bull driver to win a race in 2023, and most recently won the Australian Grand Prix this season. He makes the move to Williams after spending four seasons at Ferrari, and has also driven for Toro Rosso, Renault, and McLaren in his near-decade long Formula 1 career.

“I am very happy to announce that I will be joining Williams Racing from 2025 onwards," he said. "It is no secret that this year’s driver market has been exceptionally complex for various reasons and that it has taken me some time to announce my decision.

"However, I am fully confident that Williams is the right place for me to continue my F1 journey and I am extremely proud of joining such a historic and successful team, where many of my childhood heroes drove in the past and made their mark on our sport.

"The ultimate goal of bringing Williams back to where it belongs, at the front of the grid, is a challenge that I embrace with excitement and positivity... I will give my absolute best to drive Williams forward alongside every single member of the team."

Esteban Ocon to drive for Haas in 2025

Updated: 25^th July. Haas’ driver line-up has been finalised for next season with the announcement that Esteban Ocon will join the team in 2025. Ocon and his new teammate, the recently announced Oliver Bearman, will replace Nico Hülkenberg – who is moving to Sauber before it transforms into Audi’s first Formula 1 effort, and Kevin Magnussen, who’s departure from Haas was announced last week.

Ocon spent five years with Renault and then Alpine, and secured the Enstone-based team’s only win at the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix. He is yet to score any points this season with struggling Alpine, and has a fraught relationship with teammate Pierre Gasly which came to a head in Monaco.  

Partnering with rookie Bearman will be Ocon’s first time as the more experienced driver in the team, so it will be interesting to see how their dynamic plays out over the course of next season. 

Kevin Magnussen to leave Haas at the end of the season

Updated: Thursday 18^th July. Kevin Magnussen will leave Haas at the end of the 2024 F1 season, bringing to an end the Dane’s second spell at the team.

Magnussen originally joined Haas back in 2017, forming a four-season partnership with team-mate Romain Grosjean until he was replaced for the 2021 season in a wholesale reshuffle that saw youngsters Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin join the team.

He spent 2021 racing in sportscars for Cadillac, but returned to Haas in 2022, scoring a stunning fifth-place finish in his first race back.

Magnussen has been largely outperformed by Nico Hülkenberg since the German joined the team in 2023. With Hülkenberg already leaving to join Sauber in 2025, the Haas team has again decided to completely refresh its driver line-up and replace Magnussen as well.

Oliver Bearman has already been confirmed to join Haas next year, and Alpine outcast Esteban Ocon is heavily favoured to become his team-mate.

Magnussen’s future in F1 is now uncertain, there are still spaces left on the grid at RB, Alpine, Williams and Mercedes, while there is the possibility that he could follow Hülkenberg to Sauber, but for now, there is no word on where the former McLaren and Renault driver could end up.

Oliver Bearman announced as Haas driver for 2025

Updated: Thursday 4^th July. Oliver Bearman will become an F1 driver in 2025 with Haas, having signed a multi-year deal with the team that will see him graduate from Formula 2.

A member of the Ferrari Driver Academy, Bearman made his F1 debut in 2024, standing in for an ill Carlos Sainz Jr. at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. He finished seventh to score his first F1 points, and has been linked with a seat at Haas ever since.

He is currently competing in his second season of F2, so far winning only once – last time out in the Austrian sprint race, and sitting 14^th in the drivers’ standings as his Prema team struggle for form. Despite his F1 cameo, he has been largely outperformed by his team-mate Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who is also heavily linked with a move to Mercedes for next year.

Bearman is the first confirmed driver for Haas in 2025. Nico Hülkenberg will make the move to Sauber next season, and there has been no news yet surrounding Kevin Magnussen’s future at the team.

Which drivers are confirmed for F1 2025?

Aside from Lewis Hamilton’s impending arrival at Ferrari at the end of the 2024 season, Charles Leclerc will remain in Maranello as his team-mate.

Among the other top teams, Red Bull has both Sergio Pérez and Max Verstappen locked in with contracts for 2025, although the reigning three-time world champion’s future is still far from clear as rifts within the team continue to cause doubt.

The in-form duo of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri will both remain at McLaren, as will Aston Martin’s two drivers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll. George Russell will also continue his stay at Mercedes as he waits to learn the identity of his new team-mate.

Elsewhere, Nico Hülkenberg will make the move to Sauber for 2025 ahead of Audi’s arrival for 2026, Yuki Tsunoda will remain at RB, Alex Albon sticks with Williams joined by new teammate Carlos Sainz Jr., and Pierre Gasly remains under contract with Alpine. Gasly’s 2024 team-mate Esteban Ocon will leave the French team at the end of the season to join Haas alongside Oliver Bearman. 

Which drivers do not have F1 contracts for 2025?

Current Sauber drivers, Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas are both fighting their future at the team, as is Daniel Ricciardo, whose ambition to remain in F1 appears to be in major doubt as his long-term struggle for form continues. 

Who will drive for Mercedes in 2025?

Andrea Kimi Antonelli is by far and away the favourite to fill the Mercedes seat vacated by Lewis Hamilton in 2025. The 17-year-old Italian has performed consistently in F2 this season, and following news that the FIA has removed the requirement for a super licence applicant to have a valid road licence, his arrival in F1 for next season appears to be only a matter of time.

We’ll keep updating this page through 2024 with any news on who is racing in Formula 1 in 2025, so stay tuned to GRR for all the F1 2025 grid news.

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