The Wil🌳liams Formula 1 team is not anticipating any driver line-up changes🐲 before the Russian Grand Prix at the end of September.

Following Lawrence Stroll’s takeover of the rebranded Force India squad, the Canadian bu♕sinessman’s son, Lance Stroll has been linked with a mid-season switch from Williams to the Silverstone-based outfit.

That could open the door for a s🐲ensational return to grand prix racing for Robert Kubica, who would be favourite to fill Stroll’s vac🦩ant seat due to his role as Williams reserve driver.

Esteban Oc♔on would be the driver likely to lose out, with backers Mercedes working to ensure t꧒he Frenchman would remain on the grid this year – possibly with McLaren – should such a situation occur.

But deputy team principal Claire Williams has played down reports of switc🥂hes as soon as the next race in Singapore.

"I don't think it's going to happen quickly," Will🎃iams told Sky Sports F1. "There are quite a lot of hoops that we've all still got to jump through around the [Force India] sale in particular.

"Once that's happened I think the🐎n things will start moving. I don't think we'♕ll see a change before Singapore certainly."

When asked when chang🌟es would be likely to happen, she replied: "I don't kno𓃲w, maybe around Russia, Austin, something like that. I think we just have to wait and see. It's a real moving target at the moment."

Force India team principal Otmar Szafnauer agreed with Williams and stressed theღ team is keen to retain its current line-up at Singapore with scoring regular points finishes its short-term priority.

The team is also expecting to be boosted at the upcoming race by a major upgrade package, which had previously been delayed amid its♓ off-track financial struggles.

When asked by Sky F1 if he expected any changes before Singapore, Szafnauer replied: "I don't think so. We've got to look to see what we'r🀅e going to do next year, we've got a lot of points yet to score this year.

"I think we're ninth now and we've got our sights set to be a little෴ bit higher so we've got to focus on that. We'll worry about drivers at a later date.

"It was our biggest points haul of the year, 18 points in Spa, and we need to get some good points here🎶 as well,” he added.

"Hopefully this track suits us too, and then we've got🍷 a big upgrade coming in Singapore. We've got to focus on what we do best, which is going racing."