The announcement has left current incumbent, Carlos Sainz, without a seat for 2025, and a switch to Mercedes seems unlikely with the team favouring their junior driver Kimi Andrea Antonelli.
Sainz’s availability on the driver market has seen other drivers swoop to claim a race seat, with Nico Hulkenberg moving to Sauber/Audi for 2025.
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The 2025 grid will also see a new faces join, with Ollie Bearman poised to make a full-time return to F1 in a Haas after impressing at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
However, other drivers have recently lost their race seats with Kevin Magnussen exiting Haas, and Esteban Ocon leaving Alpine.
Reports suggest that Ocon could be taking Magnussen’s seat at Haas, however the team are yet to confirm whether the Frenchman will join them in 2025.
Despite departing Alpine, Ocon received a special gift from the team delivered to his home.
Esteban Ocon will leave Alpine at the end of this season
The 27-year-old revealed via Instagram that he had received his 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix winning Alpine, commemorating his first and only F1 victory.
“My @alpinef1team race winning car has a new home an extremely special day as we welcome the Hungarian GP A521 to the family garage!” Ocon wrote.
The post showed pictures of him, his girlfriend and parents by the car as they smiled at the tribute from the team.
Ocon won the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix in spectacular fashion, as a wet track caused a series of collisions.
The Frenchman pitted at the right time for dry tires, which kept him out ahead of Lewis Hamilton, and with help from his team-mate Fernando Alonso, managed to hold off his rivals to take a maiden victory.
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