Mercedes

The level of the driver market drama we see for 2024 will largely be dictated by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton, who is the biggest-name ‘free agen♛t’ on the grid💖. 

Hamilt♛on potentially leaving Mercedes - and F1 altogether - would send shockwaves throughout the sport and create a domino effect that would throw the driver market into chaos. But that is not a likely scenꦫario. 

Although the seven-time world champion’s c🦹urrent deal expires at the end of the 2023 season, both driver and team have repeatedly reiterated their desire to continue their partnership. 

Ha🍒milton has been in negotiations with Mercedes boss Toto Wolff for several months and an agreement is imminent. That is despite rumours of a sensational switch to Ferrari - speculation that was quickly quashed by both sides.

Wolff recently said Hamilton’s contract extension was “emot♑ionally” done and just n🅘eeded signing off.

Both Hamilton and Mercedes have st🍰ressed there is no rush for the extension - mooted to be two years - to be finalised. It is considered a formality by both parties and official confirmation will simply be 📖a matter of time. 

Charles Leclerc or Lando Norris are mooted as dream replacements should the un𓄧thinka🐭ble happen, and Hamilton leaves.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell is tied to Mercedes until the end of 2025 after the Silver Arrows 1🐼68澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:repor💎tedly took up an option to add an extra year to the Briton’s contract. 

Red Bull

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen is sitting on t﷽he longest contract in F1 today, until the end of 2028, on mega-money. And why would he want to drive any other car, anyway?

The interest surrounds his teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez who has a contract for next season but will not feel particularly secure𓆏.

The not💝oriously ruthless Helmut Marko said this week: “There is no reason to think about measures affecting Perez. He still has a contract with Red Bull for 2024.”

But how many previous Red Bull dri🧸vers heard the same? Standards are high at the constructors’ champions and Perez will be feeling the heat to keep his seat.

Daniel Ricciardo, inserted into R✱ed Bull’s sister team AlphaTauri by Marko, has made it clear he aspires to the car alongside Verstappen.

Watch this space.

Ferrari

Leclerc is routinely linked to Me𒁃rcedes but more recently was rumoured to𒁃 be signing a new Ferrari contract that will tie him down until the end of 2026, with the option for three more years.

That report claims the deal is worth £160m and wo♌uld be the second-longest behind Verstappen’s.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz is cꦑontracted for next season but has been linked with penning a pre-agreement to join the Sauber-run team in 2025, ahead of Audi’s takeover the following year.

Aston Martin

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, the oldest driver on the grid at 42, is c𒅌ontracted for one more season at Aston Martin who shot into the podium positions at the start of the year before falling off more rec♚ently.

His choices about when and where to move are infamous - and h⭕ave not always produced results - but Aston Martin will expect൲ him to stay for next year.

But 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll? In theory his sea💙t is guaranteed because his dad, Lawrence Stroll, is the billionaire who owns the team.

“I just have a little feeling that in ab𝕴out a year and a half’s time, Lance Stroll will race his last race in Formula 1 and go off and do something else”, Sky’s David Croft speculate🎶d.

“I just think he’s losing his mojo. I don’t think Formula 1 was the sport he wanted to go into when he wa﷽s younger.”

Alpine

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly are tied down for another season at least and nobody expects them to be anywhere else in ℱ2024.

McLaren

Norris has a contract for another two-and-a-haᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚlf years but is constantly rumoured to be heading elsewhere, often to Mercedes or Red B🎃ull.

Amid McLaren’s current upturn in form he has admitted: “In t🦄he back of my mind, there’s that impatient game of, ‘do I stick it out for another few years, or is it time to look at something different?’”

Zak Brown even addressed his star driver potentially looking f🧸or an escape route, claiming McLaren must continue giving him a competitive car to have any chance of keeping him.

“I think as long as we keep doing that, then he'll stick ꩲaround,” Brown said.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri has impressed in 🃏his rookie year and is tied to McLaren for 2024.

Alpha Tauri

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Ricciardo’s aim of returning to the F1 grid was unexpectedly fast-tracked after Red Bull reminded the padওdock of their ruthlessness by axing the underper𝐆forming Nyck de Vries from sister team AlphaTauri just 10 races into his rookie campaign. 

The Australia❀n has been parachuted in alongside Yuki Tsunoda and is determined to use the opportunity to rebuild his reputation and stock as he targets a full-time Red Bull drive in the future. 

A full season at the soon-ಞto-be rebranded AlphaTauri next year seems like Ricciardo’s best bet if he wants to position himself for a return to the Red Bull cockpit on a full-time basis. 

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda wil൲l beඣ hopeful of earning a contract extension with AlphaTauri considering he has been a rare bright spark in an otherwise challenging season for the Faenza-based outfit. 

The Japanese driver has continued his progress and stepped up as team leader in Gasly’s absence following his move to Alpine. Tsunoda has scored all of AlphaTauri’s points so far with a trio of 10th-place finishes and dom🌠inated De Vries prior to the Dutchman’s sacking. 

In Ricciardo, he now faces a tougher benchmark and what promises to be his sternest test yet. It will also give Red B🌃ull a chance to properly evaluate Tsunoda’s mettle, with the 23-year-old holding his own aspirations of a future seat at the parent team. ❀;

If Tsunoda can handle the additional pressure ඣand continue to perform well, a new deal will surely follow.𒊎 

Alfa Romeo

After a so-so rookie season, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Zhou Guanyu has vindicated Alfa Romeo’s decision to keep the faith in him with some consis🎶tent and solid performances during the first half of his sophomore F1 campaign. 

Just one point and one place behind teammate Valtteri Bottas in the championship, Zhou has held his own again🅺st his more experienced stablemate in uncompetitive machinery and will feel a contract renewal is a deserving reward.

The Chinese driver hopes to make progress on a new deal over the August break. With the Sauber-run team soon to be taken over by Audi ahead of their entry in 2✨026, it remains to be seen how much of an influence the German manufacturer will have on Zhou’s future. 

But with Alfa Romeo team boss Alessandro Alumni Bravi already hinting at an unchanged line-up for next season, it looks as though Zhou and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valtteri Bottas’s seats are safe for 2024, at least. 

Haas

Since impressing on his full-time F1 return, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg has beenཧ subject to some wild rumours linking him to Aston Martin, and even Red Bull, though Haas have no plans to change their driver-line-up for 2024🗹. 

Haas regard Hulkenberg and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kevin Magnussen as a solid pairing who provide some much-needed experience and stability after the team’s all-rookie line-up of Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher did not work o🔯ut as plannౠed. 

Haas team principal Guenther Steiner iꦿndicated that the American ou♏tfit are satisfied with their current duo in Canada. 

"Driver market-wise, I think at the moment we are pretty happy with what we haꦯve got," Steiner said.

"Obviously we want to announce our drivers as soon as possible so we don't have to hang around like last year, a long time.”&nbs♛p;

Magnussen does not hold a contract for 2024, s♔o his boss’ words may ✤be of little comfort until a new deal is struck. 

Williams

Despite being just one of three drivers yet to score points this season, and looking a bit shaky at times, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant is an improvement on ๊the man he replaced, Nicholas Latifi. 

However, he does😼 not have a guaranteed contract for next year.

A change for 2024 does not look on the cards at this stage and nor would it make much sense. After Williams were so w🥀illing to take a chance on their young American driver, it would seem unnecessarily harsh to boot him out after𝄹 just one year. 

Crucially, Sargeaꦚnt has new Williams team principal James Vowles’ backing. Volwes admitted that Sargeant has already proved him wrong for snu🧜bbing the 22-year-old in the past when he was at Mercedes. 

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon, Williams’ main man, was💜 linked to a huge move to Ferrari by the Italian media. A sure-fire sign that he is impressing up and down the paddock. He is thought to be tied down to Williams until at least 2024. 

Mick Schumacher, Mercedes’ current reserve driver, is a high-profile name waiting in the wings for a full-time comeback in case a🐻ny openings emerge. 

With the driver market looking set to be relatively static for next season, we don’t exp♕ect a repeat of a shock an🗹nouncement akin to Alonso’s bombshell switch to Aston Martin which rocked last summer. 

There could, however, be a lot more movement for 202𒁃5.&nb𓆉sp;