The 2025 Formula 1 season is approaching - and that means the scrutiny on 🗹some dཧrivers will ramp up.

Expected to hit the ground running and keep the🎐ir teams in healthy constructors' championship positions, the pressure on F1 drivers has▨ scarcely been greater.

Here's five drivers who will be looking over their shoulder if things don't stไart well...

Andrea Kimi Antonelli

Andrea Kimi Antonelli is the 18-year-old Mercedes wonderkid who has been handed168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton’s seat for the𓄧 2025 campai💧gn. To say his seat for next year is at risk is not entirely fair, given he is yet to make his F1 grand prix debut.

However, various circumstances in the driver market could put Antonelli - or his teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell - at risk. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has publicly aired his desire to sign 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen throughout the past year.

While Verstappen’s Red Bull contract does not end until 2028, Red Bull’s on-track competitiveness could result in a premature departure. Verstappen grew increasingly frustrated with the performance of his RB20 in 2024, ev꧋en though he clinched his fourthꩲ straight title.

Ve✱rstappen loves Red Bull, so leaving them would be a last resort, but if he does, it could be Antonelli - or even Russell - that has to make way. For Antonelli, making his F1 debut in a top team is far from a common occurrence.

Hamilton was thrown into McLaren in 2007 alongside 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso and excelled, narrowly missing out on the drivers’ title. However, in recent years, other prodigious talents like Verstappen, Russell, and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc have all spent se�💧�asons learning their trade in midfield machinery.

Verstappen and Leclerc spent the best part of a year at Toro Rosso and Sauber respectively, while Russell had to wait three years at Williams before getting a chance at Mercedes. If Antonelli ♛struggles considerably in his rookie season - and Verstappen is potentially availℱable - then Wolff might be forced into a shock change for 2026.

Alex Albon

Since making his F1 comeback with Williams at the start of 2022, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon has steadily enhanced his reputation. The Thai driver’s F1 form w💦as so impressive that he was tipped as a possible candidate to join Ferrari, while ꧒a return to Red Bull also seemed possible.

The arrival of Franco Colapinto as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Logan Sargeant’s mid-season replacement put the spotlight back 🅘on Albon. The Argentine was imm🙈ediately a close match for Albon, putting him under immense pressure.

Of course, Albon had the edge - and as the year♍ progressed, maintained a comfortable advantage over Colapinto, who had to run older-spec parts. Still, it showed that Albon isn’t quite the complete driver ahead of Carlos Sainz’s arrival.

Sainz will be jo🦂in෴ing Williams on the back of his strongest year with Ferrari to date. It will be a crucial test to judge Albon’s true ability against a known quantity.

With Colapinto waiting in the wings, Albon will need a s𒈔trong season.

Liam Lawson

If you’re teammates with Verstappen, then your seat is going to be at risk.168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Liam Lawson has the daunting tas𝕴k of going up against the four-time world champion in 2025.

To Lawson’s credit, he has shown great adaptability to get up to speed and prove himself in his short 11-race F1 stint. Lawson will be under✨ intense pressure alongside Verstappen as Red Bull look to return to title-winning ways in the constructors’ Championship.

Jack Doohan

Out of all 20 drivers on the 2025 F1 grid, Jack Doohan’s seat is at the most risk. There have been recurring rumo💞urs about Doohan’s future with Alpine - even before his debut at the season-ending 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Alpine executive advisor Flavio Briatore has talked about♌ being interested in Colapinto, while refusing to give absolute assurances rega🦄rding Doohan seeing out the season. Doohan will be fortunate to make it into next year, given the speculation around his future and the identity of his teammate - Pierre Gasly - who ended 2024 spectacularly.

Isack Hadjar

Isack Hadjar will be one of the five rookies on the 2025 F1 𝕴grid. The Frenchman finished runner-up in the Formula 2 standings, missing out on the title to Sauber driver Gabriel Bortoleto.

Despite concerns about h꧃is temperament and performance in various tests for Red Bull, Hadjar has earned the call-up alongside Tsunoda for the upcoming season.

Tsunoda has outperformed all three of his most recent teammates - Nyck de Vries, Daniel Ricciardo, and Lawson - and will be expecting to do the same with Hadjar. Hadjar will havꦡe to perform well in 2025, given Red Bull have 17-year-old prodigy Arvid Lindblad competing in F2 this year.