{"id":21110,"date":"2025-10-15T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/formula-1-who-are-the-confirmed-drivers-for-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:23:18","slug":"formula-1-who-are-the-confirmed-drivers-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/formula-1-who-are-the-confirmed-drivers-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: Who are the confirmed drivers for 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Twenty-two drivers will make up the 2026 Formula 1 line-up across 11 teams.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A few teams have already announced their drivers for the next season and beyond, but others still have slots to fill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mercedes are the latest team to confirm their line-up after a delay in getting contracts ready.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Red Bull and Alpine are yet to name their second driver, while Racing Bulls have not confirmed their pair-up yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New team Cadillac named their driver pairing in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Full line-up as of October 2025:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McLaren &#8211; Oscar Piastri, Lando Norris<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ferrari &#8211; Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Red Bull &#8211; Max Verstappen, TBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mercedes &#8211; George Russell, Kimi Antonelli<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams &#8211; Alex Albon, Carlos Sainz<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Audi (Sauber) &#8211; Nico Hulkenberg, Gabriel Bortoleto<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aston Martin &#8211; Fernando Alonso, Lance Stroll<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alpine &#8211; Pierre Gasly, TBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Haas &#8211; Esteban Ocon, Oliver Bearman<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Racing Bulls &#8211; TBC, TBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cadillac &#8211; Sergio Perez, Valtteri Bottas<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This article is the latest from BBC Sport&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/ask-me-anything\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Ask Me Anything<\/i><\/a> team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/cq83x3jk747o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-two drivers will make up the 2026 Formula 1 line-up across 11 teams. A few teams have already announced their drivers for the next season and beyond, but others still have slots to fill. Mercedes are the latest team to confirm their line-up after a delay in getting contracts ready. Red Bull and Alpine are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21112,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21110\/revisions\/21112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}