Driver Market: We predict the 2027 F1 grid
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We predict the line-up for all 11 Formula 1 teams in 2027 in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast. Jon Noble and Scott Mitchell-Malm join Edd Straw to run through the field and decided how the 22 seats will be filled. That means anticipating what the future might hold for Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, as well as the knock-on effects of their decisions. And with the prospect for a midfield mix up, we explain why the Williams drivers could emerge as significant figures in the silly season.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | The Race is on, and the Formula One driver market is already building momentum, even with |
| 0:16.8 | 2027, a long way off. |
| 0:18.8 | That means it's time for us to put our necks on the line and predict next year's full. |
| 0:22.5 | Driver line-up informed by what we know about the current contract situations and behind-the-scenes talks. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm Ed Straw and joining me for this game of silly season Crystal Ballgating, |
| 0:31.3 | us Scott Mitchell Malm and John Noble. |
| 0:35.0 | Scott, ready for some of your trademark driver market predictions? |
| 0:38.4 | Honestly, you make one very, very firm declaration that gets immediately proven wrong |
| 0:44.6 | 12 hours later and embarrasses you and you're marked for life. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh, I don't know this story. What's this story? |
| 0:51.0 | Could you take us back to Hungary and what were we, 22, Scott? |
| 0:54.9 | Yes, it was not the first time I've retold this story on this podcast, so any regular |
| 0:59.5 | listeners will know exactly what's coming. |
| 1:01.8 | It was as we were doing the post-race podcast going into the summer break and there |
| 1:08.0 | were the lingering driver market shenanigans going on. |
| 1:13.8 | And I confidently declared that Fernando Alonzo would be, you know, he's not going to be coming back from the summer break with like an Aston contract or something. |
| 1:25.8 | You know, they'll get that Alpine renewal |
| 1:28.1 | over the line, something along those lines. And then obviously 9am, 10 a.m., whatever it was on |
| 1:33.1 | the Monday morning, Alonzo to Aston Martin was announced. So yeah, that went really well. |
| 1:38.0 | So that's the kind of gold standard we're going for in this podcast. Last year we were pretty |
| 1:42.1 | good. I think we've got 19 out of 22 seats |
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