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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.
That's not going to be the case in 2025 with a huge amount of changes from top to bottom.
Below is the complete 2025 F1 grid.
Red Bull
Max Verstappen
Liam Lawson
Although it gave Sergio Perez a contract beyond 2025, the Mexican driver left the team in December.
Ultimately his dip in performance likely cost Red Bull the constructors' title, and Perez his job.
Liam Lawson has now been confirmed for a promotion from Racing Bulls - ahead of Yuki Tsunoda - after just 11 grand prix starts.
Verstappen was already signed until 2028.
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.
Racing Bulls
Yuki Tsunoda
Isack Hadjar
Red Bull officially exercised its option to keep Yuki Tsunoda at Racing Bulls for 2025 ahead of the 2024 Canadian Grand Prix. With Lawson earning promotion to Red Bull Racing, Isack Hadjar has got the nod to make his F1 debut in 2025.
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.
