Often, driver contracts are primarily based on a calendar yr, not a season foundation, and begin on January 1st and finish on December thirty first. Due to this fact, with the transition from 2024 to 2025, two of essentially the most vital driver modifications in latest occasions have develop into efficient: Lewis Hamilton is now formally a Ferrari driver and Marc Marquez is a Ducati rider.
Hamilton shocked the world when, earlier than the beginning of the 2024 World Championship, he revealed his departure from Mercedes and his transfer to Ferrari for 2025, linking essentially the most profitable driver of all time with essentially the most profitable crew in historical past. Nevertheless, each are eager for a title, albeit at totally different ranges. Lewis Hamilton’s file got here to a halt in that historic 2021, which marked the beginning of Max Verstappen’s golden period, whereas Ferrari has not gained a drivers’ title since 2007 and a constructors’ title since 2008.
In 2024, nonetheless, the Scuderia fought for the Constructors’ title till the final race with McLaren, and in 2025 it hopes to assert no less than one of many two crowns. Hamilton, however, needs to go away behind a disappointing 2024 and begin what he hopes might be a brand new chapter of success for his already glittering profession.
He arrives in Maranello with the intention of undertaking what nice champions like Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel did not do—win a world championship in Crimson.
And, after not receiving permission from Mercedes to debut with Ferrari within the post-season assessments in Abu Dhabi, we may quickly see the perfect photographs of Lewis Hamilton with the Ferrari brand past the montages utilized in latest months (or just like the one used with Grok, AI of X, for this text).
Marc Marquez is now a Ducati rider in MotoGP
“All the pieces in Crimson,” learn Marc Marquez’s cap and go well with throughout his first take a look at with the official Ducati crew final November. Gresini Racing allowed the quantity 93 to make his debut with the official Italian crew, however he couldn’t put on all of the sponsors of his new crew and appeared fairly impartial in his equipment.
Now, essentially the most profitable rider on the present grid begins his journey with the crew to beat, which has gained in latest seasons. The multi-time champion has not gained a title since 2019, however after the nightmare damage early in 2020, which he carried via the next seasons, in 2024, with a satellite tv for pc crew and a motorbike from the earlier yr, he already achieved nice outcomes and nobody excludes him as a World Championship contender in 2025.
He must beat everybody, particularly his teammate Pecco Bagnaia, who gained’t be capable to carry the “1” on his bike to mark his territory, having misplaced the title to Jorge Martin, who had the identical bike however with a satellite tv for pc crew, Prima Pramac Racing. Now, in truth, the Spaniard is an official Aprilia rider from January 1st.
F1 and MotoGP contracts beginning January 1st
Hamilton with Ferrari
Marc Marquez with Ducati
Carlos Sainz with Williams
Nico Hulkenberg with Sauber
Gabriel Bortoleto with Sauber
Esteban Ocon with Haas
Oliver Bearman with Haas
Jorge Martin with Aprilia
Enea Bastianini with KTM (as a Tech3 rider)
Marco Bezzecchi with Aprilia
Franco Morbidelli with VR46
Miguel Oliveira with Yamaha (as a Pramac rider)
Jack Miller with Yamaha (as a Pramac rider)
Maverick Vinales with KTM (as a Tech3 rider)
Fermin Aldeguer with Ducati (as a Gresini rider)
Andrea Kimi Antonelli is already formally a Mercedes principal driver, similar to Jack Doohan at Alpine or Liam Lawson at Crimson Bull, however all three belonged to those groups and had been already contracted with them. Isack Hadjar was a part of the Crimson Bull academy and is now a Racing Bulls rider.
Pedro Acosta was already a KTM rider however will now make his debut with the official crew.
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