F1 2025 team and driver lineups: Latest news and reports

There's always next year in sports, and the grid for the 2025 Formula One season is almost set amid a flurry of activity.

All 20 spots have now been filled following Friday's announcement that Isack Hadjar will drive for Racing Bulls. Only seven drivers will remain with the same team next season.

Here's how the grid looks for 2025.

Updated: Friday, Dec. 20.

ALPINE 

2024: Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon 

2025: Pierre Gasly, Jack Doohan 

Before Alpine even announced either of its drivers for next year, the team already said Esteban Ocon wouldn't be back. That news came in early June, just over a week after an embarrassing incident during the Monaco Grand Prix when Ocon crashed into teammate Pierre Gasly. It wasn’t the first incident between the two French drivers who have been frenemies since childhood. 

The team signed Gasly to a multi-year extension late that month and announced after the summer break in August that Jack Doohan would replace Ocon. The 21-year-old Australian driver finished third in the Formula 2 championship last year and served as Alpine's reserve driver this season.

Alpine even poked fun at the 2022 Oscar Piastri fiasco (aka the Piasco) when it prematurely announced it had promoted him to the F1 team.

Doohan got a headstart making his F1 debut at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, finishing 15th, after Alpine released Ocon from his contract early. Ocon is now with Haas.

ASTON MARTIN 

2024: Fernando Alonso, Lance Stroll 

2025: Fernando Alonso, Lance Stroll 

The ageless Fernando Alonso signed a contract extension with Aston Martin in April. Alonso, who will be 43 years old when the 2025 season begins, has had a bit of a career renaissance since joining the team, earning eight podiums and finishing fourth in the championship during the 2023 season. The two-time world champion also scored points through the first six grands prix this year and quietly went about his business to finish ninth overall.

No surprise, Canada's Lance Stroll re-signed with Aston Martin in June. His father, Lawrence Stroll, owns the team after all.

"The consistency and stability of both Lance and Fernando remaining with our team is a great platform to continue to realize our ambitions," team principal Mike Krack said, when Stroll's extension was announced. "We look forward to creating some incredible memories and achieving further success together."

FERRARI 

2024: Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz 

2025: Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton 

Ferrari announced it had signed Charles Leclerc to an extension on Jan. 25, only to shift silly season into top gear (before the season even began) with a blockbuster announcement just days later by signing Lewis Hamilton to a multi-year contract beginning in 2025. Hamilton turns 40 in January, but he's still driven (pardon the pun) to win a record-breaking eighth world championship.

That left Carlos Sainz as the odd man out, and the highly coveted free agent, who was linked to just about every team on the grid, is taking his talents to Williams.

HAAS

2024: Nico Hulkenberg, Kevin Magnussen

2025: Oliver Bearman, Esteban Ocon

Things had been quiet at Haas, a little too quiet, as it was the last team to make any driver announcements.

That all changed on July 4 with the news that Oliver Bearman had signed a multi-year contract. The 19-year-old competed in F2 this year while serving as a reserve driver for Ferrari and Haas. He made his F1 debut during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, filling in for Sainz, who missed the race while recovering from emergency appendix surgery. Bearman also subbed for Kevin Magnussen twice and finished 18th in the standings with seven points.

As it turned out, it'll be a complete overhaul for Haas as the team confirmed Ocon for the second seat on July 25. Ocon will become the first grand prix winner to race for Haas in team history.

Nico Hulkenberg is off to Sauber while Magnussen departs F1 to join BMW as a works driver.

McLAREN  

2024: Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri 

2025: Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri 

No changes are coming to McLaren and for good reason. McLaren has returned to top form with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri helping the team win its first constructors' championship since 1998. Both drivers earned their first GP victories with Norris scoring four wins and Piastri taking two.

Piastri earned his extension through to the end of 2026 during his rookie campaign last year while Norris inked a multi-year contract in January.

MERCEDES 

2024: Lewis Hamilton, George Russell 

2025: George Russell, Kimi Antonelli

George Russell re-signed with Mercedes on Aug. 31, 2023 — the same day the team announced it had extended Hamilton for two years. Yeah, about that. As it turned out, Hamilton had an option for the second year and decided to join Ferrari instead. Oops.

Mercedes has a strong junior program (Russell is a graduate as well) and turned to top prospect Kimi Antonelli for the second seat. The 18-year-old Italian fast-tracked through the ladder system, skipping F3 to race in F2 this season.

“I made up my mind five minutes after Lewis Hamilton told me that he’s going to Ferrari,” Wolff said to reporters at Monza on Aug. 31. “Obviously, we were discussing with other options and also kept the Max idea, didn’t discount it completely with looking at what happened at Red Bull.

“But instinctively, that is the lineup with these two that I always wanted.”

Meanwhile, Valtteri Bottas returns to the team as a reserve driver.

RACING BULLS

2024: Yuki Tsunoda, Daniel Ricciardo/Liam Lawson

2025: Yuki Tsunoda, Isack Hadjar 

Both seats were open for next season until RB announced just ahead of qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix in June that it had picked up the one-year option on Yuki Tsunoda's contract.

Although Ricciardo returned to the Red Bull family last to much fanfare, he scored points only four times in 25 races and was released on Sept. 26 with Liam Lawson taking over for the remainder of the season. Lawson, 22, was waiting in the wings (make that wiiings) as the reserve driver for both Red Bull and RB and did an admirable job filling in for five grands prix last season when Ricciardo was recovering from a hand injury.

Lawson had the inside track for the second seat in 2025 until he was promoted to the main Red Bull team (more on that in a little bit). That opened the door for rookie Isack Hadjar. The 20-year-old French and Algerian driver finished second in the F2 championship this season with four wins and eight podium results.

RED BULL 

2024: Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez 

2025: Max Verstappen, Liam Lawson 

Three-time reigning world champion Max Verstappen is in it for the long haul, having said he will honour his contract with Red Bull to 2028.

Sergio Perez was the big question mark as a pending free agent, but Red Bull answered that by signing him to a two-year contract extension on June 4. Yeah, that aged like milk.

The 34-year-old Mexican driver aided Red Bull in capturing back-to-back constructors’ championships in 2022 and 2023, but he hasn't won a race since April 2023. Perez finished eighth in the standings this year with just four podium results and none since China in April. Red Bull cut ties with Perez on Dec. 18.

A day after moving on from Perez, the team promoted Liam Lawson from RB.

SAUBER 

2024: Valtteri Bottas, Zhou Guanyu 

2025: Nico Hulkenberg, Gabriel Bortoleto 

Veteran journeyman Nico Hulkenberg, who drove for Sauber in 2013, announced in April he will rejoin the team. The lone German driver on the grid will arrive a year ahead of Audi's rebranding of the team in 2026.

While it looked like it would come down to Valtteri Bottas or Zhou Guanyu for the second seat, it was neither as Sauber cleaned house with a new challenger. Sauber signed Gabriel Bortoleto to a multi-year deal on Nov. 6. The 20-year-old won the Formula 3 championship in 2023 and the Formula 2 title this year. Bortoleto, who was part of the McLaren driver development program, will become the first full-time Brazilian driver in F1 since Felipe Massa in 2017.

Bottas, who helped Mercedes capture five consecutive constructors' championships, is heading back to the team as a reserve driver.

WILLIAMS  

2024: Alex Albon, Logan Sargeant/Franco Colapinto 

2025: Alex Albon, Carlos Sainz 

Alex Albon was already under contract for next season and signed (you guessed it) a multi-year contract extension in May.

Williams won the Carlos Sainz sweepstakes as the Ferrari driver was left without a ride when the team inked Charles Leclerc to an extension and signed Lewis Hamilton. The veteran Sainz, who won four races during his four seasons with Ferrari, has driven 10 seasons in F1, and Williams will mark his fifth different team.

Logan Sargeant, who was pointless on the 2024 campaign, didn't even make it to the end of the season as rookie Franco Colapinto was named his replacement on Aug. 27. Colapinto earned more points by his second race than Sargeant scored during his entire year-and-a-half tenure.