The chats have been had, the deals have been done, and the final, coveted places on Formula 1’s 2025 grid have been taken. Here’s a guide to who’s in and who’s out for the upcoming season.

The 2025 Formula 1 grid is complete, following two major shuffles and replacements within the Red Bull family. All of the drivers for the next season, which will begin in Melbourne, Australia, in mid-March, have now been confirmed, with six drivers set to make their full-season debuts. For half of the rookies, the 2025 season will mark their first time racing in the F1 arena.

Red Bull

Reigning World Champion Max Verstappen will be joined next season not by Mexico’s Sergio Pérez, but by New Zealand’s Liam Lawson. The 22-year-old is said to have impressed Red Bull bosses during his time standing in at sister team VCARB during the 2024 season.

Pérez had signed a deal with Red Bull that should have seen him stay until 2026, but the Mexican and the team parted ways with immediate effect earlier this month.

Ferrari

Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc, who famously won a historic victory on his home circuit at the Monaco Grand Prix this year, will be joined at Scuderia Ferrari by Lewis Hamilton. The British driver is a seven-time World Champion. It was revealed in a shock announcement back in 2023 that he would be replacing Leclerc’s longtime teammate, Carlos Sainz.

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McLaren

There will be no changes at McLaren for the 2025 season. Briton Lando Norris will continue to race alongside his Australian teammate Oscar Piastri. The duo helped the team surge through the rankings to claim the Constructors’ title in 2024 and will both stay on at McLaren for the foreseeable future, with both having signed long-term contracts.

Mercedes

George Russell will be joined by newcomer Kimi Antonelli for his fourth season with the Silver Arrows. Antonelli, an 18-year-old Italian racer, has no F1 starts to his name but has been a protege of Mercedes for some years now. He was signed by the team as a junior in 2018, during his karting days, and later skipped F3 entirely, going into F2 with PREMA under Mercedes’ wing.

Aston Martin

The lineup remains the same at Aston Martin for 2025: Spaniard Fernando Alonso is set to continue alongside Canadian Lance Stroll, the son of the team’s owner-investor, Lawrence Stroll.

VCARB

Japan’s Yuki Tsunoda will be entering his fifth season with Red Bull’s sister team in 2025. He will be joined by rookie Isack Hadjar, a 20-year-old French-Algerian racer, who came second in the 2024 Formula 2 season. Hadjar’s appointment was the final piece of the puzzle, with the news that he would be stepping up to F1 coming on 20th December, days after it was revealed that the seat had been vacated by Lawson.

Haas

It will be a new outfit for Haas next year. The team is welcoming Oliver Bearman, who drove in Carlos Sainz’s stead during the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix at the start of 2024. The drive made Bearman the youngest driver to ever make his debut in Formula 1 at the wheel of a Ferrari. He is a product of the Scuderia Ferrari Academy.

The British driver will be joined by Frenchman Esteban Ocon, who departed his former team, Alpine, after the Qatar Grand Prix.

The two drivers replace Nico Hulkenberg, who has gone to Kick Sauber, and Denmark’s Kevin Magnussen, who has retired.

Alpine

Fellow Frenchman Pierre Gasly will be staying on at Alpine for 2025. He will be joined by the team’s reserve driver, Jack Doohan. The Australian is the son of former 500cc motorcycle world champion Mick Doohan and has been part of the Alpine Academy since 2022.

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Williams

Britain’s Alex Albon will continue with Williams but with a new teammate in the form of Spanish Carlos Sainz, who left Ferrari at the end of 2024. Franco Colapinto, who spent part of the season racing for Williams, is without a seat for 2025.

Kick Sauber

Sauber ousted both of its 2024 drivers after a particularly poor season. Stepping into the shoes of the exiting Valtteri Bottas, who is joining Mercedes as a reserve driver in 2025, and Zhou Guanyu, the only Chinese driver in history to compete in Formula 1, will be Germany’s Nico Hulkenberg, coming from Haas, and newcomer Gabriel Bortoleto, the 20-year-old Brazilian who won the 2024 F2 series.

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