Magnussen, who recently secured his first win for the new Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac DPi program, will fill in as an injury replacement for Arrow McLaren SP's Felix Rosenqvist, who has yet to be cleared to return to racing after a harrowing crash last weekend. While Haas F1, the only American team in the sport, flounders to a season-best finish of 13th through six races, Magnussen and Grosjean have made waves in IMSA and Ind圜ar, respectively, a wave of success that will now give Magnussen the chance to compete directly with Grosjean in his first-ever Ind圜ar race. ![]() ![]() ![]() By 2020, all of that optimism had faded Haas F1 scored 3 total points, and both Magnussen and Grosjean were out of F1 by the end of the season.įormula 1's loss is American racing's gain. In 2018, they combined to grab fifth in the constructor's standings for a team in just its third year. To have a bird-eye view on this choatic situation, we will leave a complete grid contract’s deadline list below, for what could go down as one of the most exciting driver market to memory.Back in 2017, Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean were the two drivers at a Haas F1 team that was surprising the world. Most likely one among Callum Ilott, Mick Schumacher, Marcus Armstrong and Robert Shwartzman, that will be fighting eachother in Formula 2 in 2020, also depending on if they’ll get a superlicence next year. Kimi Raikkonen may retire as well at the end of next year, leaving the door open for a new rookie. It may also be Lance Stroll’s final year in the paddock: rumors want his dad Laurence –owner of the Racing Point Team- to have given his son one final chance to prove his potential. They will also have to consider the threat coming from Junior driver Juri Vips. It’s difficult to say ‘no’ when those drivers stand on your doorstep.įurthermore George Russell will be knocking as the Mercedes’ door as well, possibly with a Power Point presentation, to convince Toto Wolff of him deserving the seat more than Valtteri Bottas.Ĭivil wars are expected also inside the Red Bull family: Alexander Albon, Pierre Gasly and Daniil Kvyat will do their best in order to keep (or re-gain) a place in the box next to Verstappen’s. At the same time though, vacant names such as Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel may shake the Circus from its bottom. ![]() For this very reason, teams will be looking forward to keep their current line-ups, aiming for stability in a season crucial for car development. If one eye has therefore to be kept on the immediate future of those two youngsters, the second one has better not to be myopic: 16 out of the 20 drivers in the 2020’s line-up have their contract’s expiration set for the end of the next season.Īnyone but Charles Leclerc, Esteban Ocon and Sergio Perez knows where he will be in 2021, the year of the massive regulation change. After Hulkenberg and Kubica said their goodbyes to the Circus, young blood is going to step in as a replace: we are talking about Renault's Esteban Ocon, who has already competed in two and a half F1 seasons, and Williams' rookie Nicholas Latifi, fresh Formula 2 vice-champion.
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