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The Autosport F1 Podcast

F1 2025 Driver Market Update - Where Do Sainz, Perez and Ricciardo Fit?

The Autosport F1 Podcast

Motorsport Network

Sports News, News, Sports

4723 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The 2023 Formula 1 offseason marked the first time in the sport's history that all 20 drivers on the grid that finished last season, stayed with their original teams. But when Lewis Hamilton announced in February that he was switching to Ferrari for 2025, it opened the floodgates to some of the earliest "silly season" dialogue that the sport has ever seen. In this edition of the Autosport Podcast, Bryn Lucas sits down with Grand Prix Editor Alex Kalinauckas to discuss the possibilities as to where drivers could be heading for 2025, including the latest on both Red Bull drivers, Mercedes push for Andrea Kimi Antonelli from F2, where Carlos Sainz fits into the equation, and seeing if Sauber could take a chance on Nico Hulkenberg as Audi begins to exert their influence on the team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From autosport.com and autosport magazine, this is the Autosport Podcast.

0:46.4

2020, marked the first time the Formula One grid started and ended with all the drivers staying with their teams going into the new season.

0:49.7

However, early this year, the Formula One world was shocked as Lewis Hamilton announced

0:53.7

his move

0:54.2

from Mercedes to Ferrari, starting the silly season early, and were several drivers out of

1:00.1

contract at the end of this year, including Carlos Sites, we're going to have a look at the

1:04.3

driver's market and see who might move to where.

1:07.2

Well, I'm Bryn Lucas, and joining me, I'm delighted to have Alex Kalanas, who's written an article on autosport.com about this very topic. Now, Alex, let's kick it off,

1:15.9

shall we? It is looking like it's going to be the silliest of silly seasons. Yeah, hi, Bryn,

1:23.1

hi listeners, hi viewers. Yeah, I mean, I always like the silly season sort of monica,

1:30.6

because obviously that's addressing the speculation and the rumours that we love that swirl

1:34.8

around Formula One, but of course actually very, very, very serious business, which we

1:39.1

illustrated on the cover of Autosport magazine with some nice squiggles, which I thought is particularly

1:43.7

good,

1:47.6

although on reflection, this one definitely shouldn't be just going off into the ether.

1:51.6

It should be pointing directly this man who he's replacing Lewis Hamilton going to replace car lot sites at Ferrari.

1:52.9

But yeah, very serious business in the end, driver contracts.

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