Barring 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nyck de Vries’ mid-season ousting which paved the way for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo’s shock comeback with AlphaTauri, this year’s driver market has been remarkablꦐy stable.

No drivers have switched teams for 2024 and the grid will remain as it is if Williams decide to retain168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Logan Sargeant, whose seat is the only left unconfirm🐠♈ed for next year. 

However, Haas driver Hulkenberg, who himself has been linked with a 🐭return to Sauber ahead of Audi’s takeover, expects plenty of movement before new engine rules are introd꧙uced in 2026. 

“I tꦰhink there’s still so much gap between now and then,” the German said of the 2026 regulations. 

“Sounds like quite a big change [the regulations] and for sure, I think at the beginning of 🍷next year, you start to wonder about that. 

“The 𝓰Musical Chairs I think will move in and work quite a bit next year and I think naturally things will fall in place for people so yeah, depends what happens, how you perform and how strong your value is.”

So who could end up moving between noꦕw and then? 

It’s all complete guesswork at this stage, but that hasn’t stopped us from making some purely hypothetical (and probably incorrect) fantasy ♕predictions…

Norris joins Verstappen at Red Bull

Having decided to dispense of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez’s services after the Mexican’s inconsistent performances ಌspill over into 2024, and unconvinced that Ricciardo is the answer, Red Bull break with tradition to create an F1 ‘superteam’.

They launch a mega-money offer that McLaren and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris simply cannot refuse to get the highly-rated Briton out of his contract a year early to become 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s next teammate from 2025. 

After demonstrating his talents at McLaren for several years, Norris finally gets the chance to drive a front-running and championship-winning car, and pit himself against a now four-time world champ𓆏𝔉ion. 

Ocon replaces Hamilton at Mercedes 

After Mercedes’ competitive struggles continue and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton grows tired of battling in the midfield for another two seasons, the seven-time world champion makes t🤡he bombshell decision to call time on his illustrious career at the end of his contract. 

With Red Bull moving early to take Norris off the market, Mercedes are forced to look at other targets. An attempt to sign 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc was re⛄buffed, with Ferrari unwilling to make further changes to their driver line-up (more on that to come below). 

Mercedes look to former protege 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon, who Toto Wolff is a huge admirer of and originally wanted to place in one of his cars. Having proved his worth as a grand prix winner at Alpine, Ocon gets his dream move to Mercedes where he will partner 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, who has t🅺aken on the team leader position. &nღbsp;

Sainz gambles on Audi's F1 project 

Unable to force himself ahead of superstar teammate Leclerc, and with Ferrari still not in a position to fight for world championships, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz decides against signing a new deal to instead put his faith in Audi’s F1 project.&nbs🐻p;

The much-rumoured move is finally confirmed during the 2024 summer break, with Sainz joining the Sauber-run F1 team in 2025 to give himself a year to bed in prior to the Swiss outfit’s transformation 🔴into the Audi works squad. 

At Audi, where Sainz will reunite with former McLaren boss Andreas Seidl, Sainz will finally get t🐟he chance to establish himself as a number one driver and build a team around him, something he has so 💟far been unable to do. 

Ferrari snap up sought-after Albon 

Ferrari, in need of a replacement for Sainz, offer their number one target168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Alex Albon another chance to show what he can do in front-running F1 machinಌery𒊎. 

Despite being happy at an ever-improving Williams, where he has flourished and rebuilt his reputation following his difficult and short-lived Red Bull stint, Albon jumps at the opportunity to drive for F1’s most famous team and try to help 🍬turn them back into serial winners. 

Herta (finally) gets F1 shot with Andretti 

In a world where the Andretti-Cadillac bid is approved by F1 after initially being green-lighted by the FIA, Colton Herta gets a long-awaited F1 break for the American outfit’💎s debut season in 2026. 

Herta, who was unfortunate to miss out on an F1 drive for 2023 due to the sport’s stringent super-lic🦹ence rules, follows Andretti over from America after an impre🐟ssive IndyCar career. 

Now 26, Herta fulfiꦫls F1’s desire to h𝔍ave an American driver racing for an American team.