The full story of F1's ridiculous 2025 driver market

Nobody had seen anything quite like it: the most ridiculous, and early-starting, driver market that even F1's most experienced driver managers and team bosses could remember. An absurdly long-running saga to set the 2025 grid finally came to an end in December - 323 days after it started - when Red Bull confirmed Sergio Perez would be replaced by Liam Lawson and Isack Hadjar got promoted to a Racing Bulls seat. It means that this year, HALF the grid is changing, 12 months on from the line-up staying the same from the end of one season to the start of the next for the first time ever! And, remarkably, the full story might yet have a post-script, several races into the 2025 season. 00:00 Introduction 01:09 Top team uncertainty 03:30 Audi enters the fray 05:07 The cork in the bottle 07:04 Curveball(s) with Sainz 08:29 All change at the surprise package 09:39 Red Bull chaos interjection 10:53 Sainz finally decides! 12:51 The impact of mid-season changes 14:40 Audi resolution 15:55 Red Bull nonsense: The final chapter Published: 2025-01-16
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