The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 2024 driver line-up is identical to 2023’s - it is the first time in history that every driver is u🔯nchanged from the previous year.

But amid a sea of expiring contracts and impatient team principals, the chopping and changing of dr🐲ivers could begin from the earliest months of the new season.

Ferrari, the only team apart from Red Bull to win an F1 grand prix last year,𝔉 are busy✤ battling away to secure their long-term driver duo.

Leclerc has been in talks over a new contract foওr some time although he hasn’t yet put pen🧸 to paper.

“Sources say contract talks with Leclerc are taking pre💧cedence,” Laꦏwrence Barretto at reports about Ferrari’s plans.

Leclerc was paid a reported $19m last ಞyear but will want a significant pay riseꦇ to commit the next few years to Ferrari.

His current deal will expire at the end of the seasꦦon♊.

Italian media reported last 😼month that he had agre꧙ed a new five-year deal to stay until the end of 2029.

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur pointed out that Mercedes required half of last seasﷺon until they finalised Lewis Hamilton’s new contract, suggesting Leclerc’s time-frame may be similar.

"We are not in a r♓ush 🎃to extend the deals but have started discussions,” Vasseur told Sky in Italy. 

“Mercedes did it in August. We a🍃re not in a rush at all.”

The competitiveness in the eaꦅrly grands prix may🐓 influence Leclerc’s decision or whether to stay or go.

But he will also be aware that Ferrari might still be his best bet, because Red Bull will keep Max Verstappen plus one other in 2025, while Mercedes are committed to Hamilton ⛄and George Russell.