We are now in the final stages as regards the drivers market. The latest team to have made its pairing official for the next few years is Mercedes with a double two-year contract for Hamilton and Russell. Even before that Haas confirmed the duo of Magnussen and Hulkenberg for another season. One of the next teams to make a move is Williams. The Grove team has the security of Alexander Albon, confirmed until 2025. The Thai driver - who has brought Williams back to the points several times this year - is at the center of the project led by James Vowles. Albon alone scored the same points as Bottas, Zhou, Magnussen and Hulkenberg combined and it is also an important point of reference for your partner, rookie Logan Sargeant. The American - in his first year in F1 - already risks having to say goodbye to the Circus having a contract expiring in 2023. However, rather reassuring rumors regarding his future are coming from England.
Sargeant close to reconfirmation
Logan hasn't scored a single point in the championship but in the last few races he has come very close, and despite the difficulties he had at the beginning of the year, the team seems ready to reconfirm him. Even considering the absence of alternatives on the market. Sargeant arrived in 2023 to replace Nicholas Latifi. The leaders of Williams, says the British journalist Joe Saward, "they have no plan in mind to replace Sargeant". There therefore appears to be no possibility at the moment for a return of Mick Schumacher in 2024. The former Haas driver now holds the role of third Mercedes driver and, given the relationship between Williams and the star team, he was the main candidate for a possible replacement of Sargeant.
Besides Logan Sargeant there are also two other drivers who are about to renew, two other young drivers. Yuki Tsunoda and Guanyu Zhou. Daniel Ricciardo also remains in doubt, having arrived mid-season as De Vries' replacement, but who is now in a delicate recovery phase after the accident in Holland which caused him to fracture the metacarpal of his left hand. In all likelihood he too will be reconfirmed for 2024, hoping to be able to see him on the track as soon as possible.
Source: FormulaPassion
