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Formula 1 had the unprecedented situation of every starting 2024 line-up being identical to the one each team finished 2023 with.
But the driver market kicked in early this year, and we're already guaranteed plenty of changes for 2024.
And after a brief period of calm, the driver market kicked back before, during and after the F1 summer break with deadlines approaching and options dwindling.
Even so, there are still seats to be filled before everything is in place.
Below is the 2025 F1 grid as it currently stands.
Red Bull
Max Verstappen
Sergio Perez
On paper, Red Bull is - probably - sticking with the same driver line-up for a fifth-successive season for 2025, having announced Sergio Perez will continue to partner three-time champion Max Verstappen, whose contract runs until 2028.
That announcement made mention of a two-year contract extension for Perez, but also included team principal Christian Horner quoting only that now was an important time for Red Bull "to confirm our line-up for 2025".
That could indicate that Perez's deal is a one-year-plus-one, with the option for the second year on the team's side. There is also uncertainty over Verstappen's future beyond the end of 2025 amid Red Bull's internal struggles.
And Perez's situation is still not as secure as that 2025 contract suggests, as he only narrowly avoided being dropped during the 2024 summer break and remains under pressure to keep his seat for 2025.
Ferrari
Charles Leclerc
Lewis Hamilton
Ferrari's audacious and successful move to lure Lewis Hamilton away from Mercedes kicked the 2025 F1 driver market into gear before the 2024 campaign had even begun.
Seven-time world champion Hamilton joins Charles Leclerc at the team, Leclerc having been announced on a deal covering "several more seasons" in January.
Mercedes
George Russell
Kimi Antonelli
Hamilton's departure prompted Mercedes to put its faith in its teenage protege Kimi Antonelli, whose long-anticipated 2025 deal was announced at the Italian Grand Prix in September after months of private testing in older-spec cars.
He'll line up alongside incumbent George Russell, whose deal runs through 2025.
McLaren
Lando Norris
Oscar Piastri
McLaren was the first team to have its 2025 line-up locked in.
F1's most recent first-time race winner Lando Norris is contracted at the team he's spent his entire top-level career with until at least the end of 2026, as is his team-mate Oscar Piastri - who will be part of an unchanged line-up for a third year in a row in 2025.
Aston Martin
Fernando Alonso
Lance Stroll
Aston Martin is one of three teams that will boast an F1 champion in its 2025 line-up, as 42-year-old Fernando Alonso ruled himself out of the silly season early by committing his future to the team with which he scored eight podiums last season.
At the end of June, Aston also confirmed a new deal for Lance Stroll that will keep him at the team through the first year of F1's next rules cycle in 2026.
Alpine
Pierre Gasly
Jack Doohan
Alpine confirmed a "new multi-year" deal for Gasly - that should extend beyond the end of 2025 - just before the Austrian Grand Prix.
Esteban Ocon, who has driven for the team since his return to the grid in 2020 following a year out, will be leaving after 2024.
His place will be taken by Jack Doohan, Alpine having opted to promote its 21-year-old reserve driver to a race seat for 2025.
Williams
Alex Albon
Carlos Sainz
Williams tied down Alex Albon to a new long-term contract as part of team principal James Vowles outlining his vision for the team's revival in the coming years.
That vision has clearly impressed Carlos Sainz, who eventually picked Williams as his post-Ferrari destination.
RB
Yuki Tsunoda
TBC
Red Bull officially exercised its option to keep Yuki Tsunoda at RB for 2025 ahead of the 2024 Canadian Grand Prix. But there's still a question mark over his team-mate.
Liam Lawson has the seat right now but he's a contender for promotion to Red Bull's senior team for 2025. It could be that Franco Colapinto or Isack Hadjar replaces him, should he go to Red Bull Racing.
Sauber
Nico Hulkenberg
Gabriel Bortoleto
Nico Hulkenberg's career revival at Haas has been impressive enough to catch the eye of Sauber and its CEO Andreas Seidl, with Hulkenberg the first driver signed for the transitional 2025 season ahead of the team's rebirth as the factory Audi team for 2026.
The identity of his team-mate is current F2 points leader Gabriel Bortoleto, who beat Valtteri Bottas to the second seat after months of negotiations.
Haas
Ollie Bearman
Esteban Ocon
Hulkenberg's exit left Haas with two vacancies for 2025 as his team-mate Kevin Magnussen is also out of contract at the end of the year.
But it announced on the eve of the British GP weekend that Ferrari protege Ollie Bearman, who starred when standing in for Sainz at the Scuderia back at the second round of the season, will make his F1 graduation in 2025 despite a fairly ordinary F2 season so far with Prema. He will have six FP1 outings with Haas this year.
Haas then confirmed prior to the Hungarian GP that Magnussen would not be retained, meaning a relationship spanning two multi-year stints - and close to 150 grands prix come its conclusion - will end later this year.
One week later it confirmed Ocon will replace him on a multi-year deal with the team.
