A rundown of the teams and drivers for the 2025 Formula One world championship starting in Australia Sunday (drivers: nationality, age, position/points last season):
Alpine
Engine: Renault
Team Principal: Oliver Oakes (GBR)
Drivers:
Pierre Gasly (FRA) 29, 10th/42pts
Jack Doohan (AUS), 22, 24th/0pts
Doohan, whose father Mick left his mark on two wheels as a five-time MotoGP world champion, is an exciting addition to the grid. The 22-year old joins Gasly in the seat left vacant by Esteban Ocon. Another unsettled season for the Renault team resulted in one of F1's more controversial figures Flavio Briatore taking up an advisory role, and Briton Oakes replacing Bruno Famin as team principal. The 2024 campaign proved a slow burner, Alpine's form improving with a double podium in Brazil to lift them to a respectable sixth in the teams' league. Oakes says there is no "silver bullet" to success, but is intent on cementing Alpine's place behind the big four - Red Bull, McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari. "I never want to walk to the back of the grid. I get upset. We need to get back to be consistently in the midfield, at the front of it. That's where this team was more often than not. Unfortunately, the last years we slipped back," said Oakes. This is the last season the team will be powered by Renault engines. In 2026, they will return to being a customer team for the first time since 2015.
Haas
Engine: Ferrari
Team Principal: Ayao Komatsu (JPN)
Drivers:
Esteban Ocon (FRA), 28, 14th/23pts
Oliver Bearman (GBR), 19, 18th/7pts
With former director of engineering Komatsu replacing Guenther Steiner as team principal this all-American outfit enjoyed an uptick in their fortunes last year, coming seventh in the standings with a 58-point haul. Haas field an all-new driver pairing of ex-Alpine driver Ocon and British teenager Bearman. The Ferrari reserve driver had a baptism of fire in F1 last year, replacing the ill Carlos Sainz for Ferrari in Saudi Arabia, and impressing with a seventh place - the youngest driver to score points on his debut. He went on to have two outings for Haas in Azerbaijan and Sao Paulo.
RB
Engine: Honda
Team Principal: Laurent Mekies (FRA)
Drivers:
Yuki Tsunoda (JPN) 24, 12th/30pts
Isack Hadjar (FRA), 20, debut season
Red Bull's sister team is in its second season competing under the RB banner after spells as Toro Rosso and AlphaTauri. Founded in 2006 out of Minardi, Sebastian Vettel won a race with them in 2008 before graduating to parent team Red Bull and claiming four world titles. Mekies is in his second year as team boss, with a new partnership out on the track - Tsunoda joined by French-Algerian rookie Hadjar. Tsunoda scored the bulk of the 46 points last term for RB's second successive eighth place finish, almost double the total in 2023. Hadjar takes the seat left vacant by Daniel Ricciardo, who was replaced by Liam Lawson for the final six races. Japan's Tsunoda will be looking to cement his place as team leader as he goes in search of that elusive first podium. Hadjar narrowly missed the F2 title last season, the Paris-born 20-year old impressing with four wins. "He's definitely a raw talent. He needs a little bit of polishing but he has the speed," said Red Bull chief Christian Horner.
Williams
Engine: Mercedes
Team Principal: James Vowles (GBR)
Drivers:
Alex Albon (THA) 28, 16th/12pts
Carlos Sainz (ESP) 30, 5th/290pts
When Ferrari told Sainz that Lewis Hamilton was replacing him in 2025 the Spaniard spent weeks anguishing over making the right choice for his next chapter in F1. Seduced by the vision, and perhaps history of the 16-time former champions, Sainz signed for Williams. His arrival, alongside Albon, has brought an air of expectation at the iconic British team under the stewardship of former Mercedes strategy chief Vowles. Pointless in 2022, the team established by the late Frank Williams, climbed to seventh in 2023. Last term proved a struggle though, with only Sauber behind them. American Logan Sargeant was let go midway through the season with only one point to his name, gained in 2023. He was replaced by Argentine Franco Colapinto, who picked up five points with talented Albon adding a further 12. Williams' fans will be hoping Sainz can help lift fortunes for the former serial winners whose last success was way back in 2012.
Sauber
Engine: Ferrari
Team Principal: Mattia Binotto (ITA) (Jonathan Wheatley from April)
Drivers:
Nico Hulkenberg (GER), 37, 11th/41pts
Gabriel Bortoleto (BRA) 20, debut season
This is the Swiss-based team's last season before becoming Audi's factory outfit in 2026. Former Ferrari chief Binotto was appointed midway through last season to oversee the ambitious Audi project with Red Bull's sporting director Wheatley their new team principal from April. Peter Sauber's team, competing in F1 since 1993, mustered just four points in 2024 with Zhou Guanyu, China's first F1 driver, and Valtteri Bottas. That duo have made way for the experienced Hulkenberg (who moves from Haas) and exciting Brazilian rookie Bortoleto, the reigning F2 champion.
