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F1 drivers and teams guide 2023: Who's driving for Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes and the rest?

The 2023 F1 season is already shaping up to be another thrilling championship battle with the prospect of more teams catching up to Red Bull in the performance stakes as their understanding and interpretation of the latest regulations improves.

Changes to the 2023 cars include a 2kg reduction in minimum weight to 796kg and strengthening of the roll hoops to improve safety. There is an increase in ride height of 15mm to mitigate the ‘porpoising’ that affected cars early in the 2022 season, and the cars are also now fitted with larger rear-view mirrors.

An expanded calendar includes six sprint races that will take place in Azerbaijan, Austria, Belgium, Qatar, United States (Circuit of the Americas, Texas) and Brazil.

Formula One 2023 calendar

2023 F1 team guide

Here are the F1 teams and drivers for the 2023 season. Which team will you be supporting this year? Let us know in the comments.

Mercedes

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  • Car name: Mercedes-AMG W14
  • Drivers: Lewis Hamilton and George Russell
  • 2022 championship position: 3

After taking a radical approach to the design of its 2022 car that only saw it begin to deliver true performance after the halfway point of the season, Mercedes is hoping its W14 challenger will get off to a smoother start.

The team launch will be mid-week, after which we’ll update this page with images of the new car. Much of the Mercedes personnel line-up is unchanged but the departure of Chief Strategist James Vowles to replace Jost Capito as team boss at Williams is a loss.

Lewis Hamilton is keen to get back to regular podiums after his first winless season last year. Meanwhile, his rapid understudy, George Russell, will want to notch up more victories and emulate some of his teammate’s prior success. Expect the so-far convivial relationship between the two to become frostier as Russell begins to assert his authority this year.

Red Bull Racing

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  • Car name: Red Bull RB19
  • Drivers: Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez
  • 2022 Championship position: 1

The launch of the Red Bull RB19 in New York had all the pizzazz of a Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championship-winning team, supplemented by the announcement that it will partner with Ford to develop powertrains from 2026.

For now, the livery continues to feature the Honda name, although the car shown was only for the purposes of that event. Team boss Christian Horner has already hinted that the 2023 racer will look different once pre-season testing begins in Bahrain.

Max Verstappen goes into the new season with a strong chance of adding a third title to his name. After narrowly missing out on second place in last year’s championship, Sergio Perez will also be chasing victories.

Ferrari

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  • Car name: Ferrari SF-23
  • Drivers: Charles Leclerc and Carlo Sainz
  • 2022 Championship position: 2

Ferrari goes into the 2023 season with Charles Leclerc and Carlo Sainz once more, but following some disastrous strategy decisions last year, Mattia Binnoto has been replaced as team boss by Fred Vasseur. The former Alfa Romeo team chief is a long-time friend and ally of Leclerc from his junior days and brings plenty of experience to Maranello.

Often a team guilty of prematurely talking up its title hopes, the rumour in the paddock is that its engine performance will significantly improve for 2023. We get to see the car tomorrow (Tuesday).

McLaren

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  • Car name: McLaren Mercedes MCL60
  • Drivers: Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri
  • 2022 Championship position: 5

One of the biggest talking points ahead of McLaren’s 2023 season will be how its new driver Oscar Piastri settles into F1.

Having been announced as a driver for Alpine last year he immediately took to Twitter to deny he had a contract with the French team, causing a social media storm. A subsequent court battle determined that the Australian driver would race with McLaren.

With Lando Norris assuming the team leader role, McLaren has one of the most promising and exciting driver pairings on the grid. If it can produce a good enough car, we could see a return to form for the Woking team.

Alpine

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  • Car name: Alpine Renault A523
  • Drivers: Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon
  • 2022 Championship position: 4

Alpine will be the final team to reveal its 2023 F1 car, with the launch set for Thursday. It’s a tantalising prospect as things were looking up in 2022. A series of solid results saw Alpine secure fourth place in the 2022 constructor standings as the ‘best of the rest’ outside the top three teams.

It becomes an all-French affair this season with Pierre Gasly joining Esteban Ocon. A widely-reported rivalry between the two drivers, which dates back to their junior categories, could create tension within the team.

Nevertheless, both drivers are very quick on their day, and if the A523 has the performance, the Alpine team will be a force to be reckoned with in 2023.

AlphaTauri

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  • Car name: AlphaTauri RBPT AT04
  • Drivers: Yuki Tsunoda and Nyck de Vries
  • 2022 Championship position: 9

As the feeder team for Red Bull, AlphaTauri has rarely come close to its better-resourced cousins (when it does there are red faces at the Milton Keynes-based outfit), and last year it was some way off the championship winners’ phenomenal pace. We wouldn’t expect it to be at the sharp end often, but a strong mid-pack performance is definitely on the cards.

The 2023 car has only been shown in a livery design spec for now ahead of pre-season testing but includes new sponsorship AlphaTauri stolen from Alfa Romeo.

The mercurial Japanese driver Yuki Tsunoda teams up with Nyck de Vries, who made an impressive debut last year after a last-minute call-up to drive a Williams at Monza. Unless Tsunoda can find consistency it’s likely the new boy will find himself higher up the drivers’ table at the end of the season.

Aston Martin

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  • Car name: Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes AMR23
  • Drivers: Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll
  • 2022 Championship position: 7

It’s a year of change for the Aston Martin team, having moved to a opened a new state-of-the-art factory and welcomed two-times world champion Fernando Alonso to the team from Alpine. It’s a major statement of intent from team owner Lawrence Stroll.

The Spaniard will race alongside old hand Lance Stroll. Despite being the boss’s son, the Canadian is decent on his day.

Both drivers will be hoping Aston Martin is not bluffing when it says the new car is “a considerable evolution of last year’s chassis”.

Only towards the tail end of the 2022 season did Aston Martin get a proper handle on its performance, so it will need a better start to 2023 or Alonso may become disillusioned. On the other hand, the maestro may feel he can help build the growing team into a proper powerhouse, a la Schumacher at Ferrari, and see this as a multi-year project.

Alfa Romeo

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  • Car name: Alfa Romeo Ferrari C43
  • Drivers: Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu
  • 2022 Championship position: 6

The Alfa Romeo C43 was the first of the 2023 cars to break cover, and it appears to be the race car rather than merely a launch model.

A striking black and red colour scheme could clothe a cleverly engineered machine; its rear end is said to unlock the “next level of performance”, according to the team’s technical director.

The driver pairing of Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu works well, providing a balance of experience and speed, though neither are considered top tier.

Haas F1

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  • Car name: Haas Ferrari VF-23
  • Drivers: Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg
  • 2022 Championship position: 8

The Haas team retains a similar look to its past cars, with black becoming a more prominent colour.

With Kevin Magnussen and super-sub Nico Hulkenberg returning to a full-time drive, Haas has quite an experienced pairing that should help the team secure more points finishes in 2023.

Haas has been fairly inconsistent, and it can’t keep pace with the better-funded teams in terms of mid-season development, but if it has come up with another stunningly good design and pre-season rumours of an improved Ferrari power unit are true, we could see team punching well above its weight once again.

Williams F1

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  • Car name: Williams Mercedes FW45
  • Drivers: Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant
  • 2022 Championship position: 10

Williams remains a shadow of its former self and the current team owners will want to see a better performance this season.

Joining Alex Albon is rookie driver Logan Sargeant, the sole American driver on the grid, who should bring much welcome media attention for the team in a market which has seen interest in F1 explode in recent years. This will be particularly true at the three — yes, three — US races this year.

The recruitment of Mercedes’ former chief strategist as the new team principal should also help lift the team that finished in last place in the 2022 championship, though significant improvements could be slow to arrive.

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