Sky Sports F1 commentator David Croft has suggested that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly has started negotiations with Williams over a possible switch for the 2025 F1 season.

New dev🔯elopments surrounding the F1 driver market emerge on a daily basis.

As reported in the German press, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg is close to joining Saube♋r for 2025 on a three-year d🍰eal.

Audi want Carlos S🐷ainz alongside him but are💦 prepared to wait until the middle of May.

Gasly, who is out of contract at the end of 2024, has been mentioned as a possible alternative ▨to Sainz.

The 2020 Italian Grand Prix winner has now been mooted as a possible candidate to replace 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant at Williams.

Speaking on the latest episode of the Sky F1 podcast, Croft gave his predictions on how the F1 driver market will play out f✃or 2025.

“I think Nico Hulkenberg is going to 𝓀Sauber,” he said. “He will be there at Audi alongside Carlos Sainz. I think that’s where Sainz is heading because Mercedes will bring in Andrea Kimi Antonelli - that makes logical sense and I think Red Bull will keep hold of Sergio Perez - that makes logical sense as well.

“Where does Zhou go? He could go to Alpine. Remember he was a Renault academy dr♋iver so he could go back into that stable again. Ocon or Gasly - or both - are going toꦚ have to leave Alpine.

“Gasly might find himself at Williams. I am sure he’s been in negotiations with Williams to drive alongside Alex Albon. That does free up a space but they also have Jack Doohan waiting in the wings who is very much acclimatised in that team. Haas? No. I think that will be Kevin ꦇMagnussen and Ollie Bearman.

“Zhou is not part of that Ferrari stable so Ferrari will want to bring the young Ferrari driver in. It probably leads you to the conc🔴lusion we could do with two more teams on the grid but that’s a whole Andretti story.”

Based on Croft’s assess𒁏ment of the driver market, it seems🧜 likely Zhou will miss out on a drive for next year.

“I don’t think you keep a driver in the sport because the popularity of that driver as such guarantees a full house at a grand prix,” he explained. “I think Zhou deserves a plꦑace on the grid. He’s a much better driver than that Sauber allows him to show more often than not.

“Those scenes, that e🐻motion, just in the back of my mind I was just thinking ‘I hope this isn’t the last and it might well be the last’ for some time. I don’t see where he lines up on the grid.”