I can remember thinking Vettel would be with Red Bull forever. All it took was one bad season for them both to say their goodbyes. If a four-time champion can be gone just like that, no one is irreplaceable in this sport.
It's probably the younger fans who have the hardest time imagining team changes. There was once a time when it was unthinkable that Kimi would race for Ferrari or Schumi for any other team than Ferrari. And yet they both swapped teams. Alonso leaving Renault for McLaren was also a weird move, but above all Lewis had raced for McLaren his entire career. No one thought he'd leave the team to go anywhere else. So we've been in this situation before. I don't think Leclerc, Norris, or Verstappen would stay at their current teams if they started faltering any more than Lewis, Kimi, or Fernando did.
@@rhodrage Kimi to Sauber is considered "back to where we started" thing, you know like maybe back to the parent's village or something on the other hand, Kimi to Ferrari is like "you are supposed to defeat them, not join them" moment imo and, Lewis to Merc was WTF1 moment back then, funny when we look back
I have zero doubt that Max will leave Red Bull willingly at some point. Max still has at least 10 PRIME years ahead of him, and he’s the only driver on pace to challenge Hamilton’s records (right now). If Red Bull’s performance slips, he’ll go to the best team and challenge for championships, no questions asked These driver-team relationships seem airtight when things are going well, but circumstances change season by season. You can’t look too far ahead
What If that best team is Ferrari or mercedes. They will already have their number 1 in leclerc and Russel and I'm sure a solid number 2 like sainz ocon etc. Then what does he do?
@@zameernizam3825 Then he stays at Red Bull until an opportunity opens up, he accepts an offer to join a team with the likes of Russell or Leclerc (which has been done before), or Russell or Leclerc get pushed out in favor of Max, which also isn’t out of the question in the future if max is a world champion, given that Kimi was pushed out for Alonso in 2010, and Alonso was pushed out for Seb in 2014
@@cody95 I have to disagree with you there. Kimi wanted to leave f1 anyway for a sabbatical. Alonso and Ferrari had much tension built up over those years, and it was essentially a mutual breakup. Leclerc verstappen are essentially almost equally talented (maybe Russel too) so there'd be no need for Ferrari to push out leclerc in favour of a driver equally as good, than 1 who's well integrated into the team. McLaren is really the only option. Or another unexpected championship contender. I do see Norris potentially moving to merc with George. Other than that, Ferrari and RB have their driver academies with loads of talent to act as no.2 drivers.
Verstappen? Norris? Leclerc? They all want to be at the dominant team, still going to drive more than 10 years. More than 10 years in a row being the best team is nearly impossible, especially if the teams are going to be closer to each other due to cost cap
I remember well, when Hamilton burst upon the scene, he stated boldly and clearly that he intended to spend his entire career with McLaren. I chuckled to myself at the time 'cause we all knew that wouldn't happen.
Interesting fact: The only ever driver’s champion to only drive for one team is Jim Clark, who drove just for Lotus from 1960-1968, winning two titles. He would have continued with Lotus even if he hadn’t died in Hockenheim, Colin Chapman & Jim Clark were close friends.
For me at least, what drove Seb to Ferrari was the fact he had to win it there because of The Michael. Seb grew up watching Schumacher tear up the track in the red car, no way Seb wasn't going there too. Max? Max doesn't seem to have those dreams. He wants a team that is competitive and always behind him, and I can't see him leaving RedBull anytime soon because of that. RBR is 100% behind Max in a way I don't see other teams do with their drivers. So yeah, I think Max is in RBR for the long haul.
@@nealfirstofhisname that makes sense, from top tier team to midfield shenanigans, understandable that top talent dropping down on the grid because of the car not because of their own ability would want to float back to the top asap
My prediction comes from the F1 2021 career mode where Verstappen to McLaren Russell to Alfa Romeo Norris to Aston Martin Leclerc to Red Bull Mick to Mercedes
Bro, my own MyTeam career driver transfers had Jack Aitken to Red Bull (replacing a retiring Sergio Perez), Callum Ilott to Williams (replacing Russell when I signed him onto my team), Christian Lundgaard to Alpine (replacing a retiring Fernando Alonso) and Guanyu Zhou to Aston Martin (replacing a retiring Sebastian Vettel), and Pedro Piquet to Alfa Romeo. As for the driver transfers in my normal driver career mode I had Pierre Gasly to Mercedes, Italian Jesus to Alpine, Mick Schumacher to Alfa Romeo (which is the only other one that logically made sense besides Ilott to Alfa), Callum Ilott to Alpha Tauri (to replace Gasly) then he moved to Alfa in the midst of a season after they hired Latifi, Christian Lundgaard to Williams, and of course I still couldn't escape having Guanyu Zhou as my teammate except this time at Aston Martin 😂
@Luke Brown.. agree but what about Fangio and Tazio Nuvolare? They also won in every car they ever drove! Tazio won his last race ever in the first Abarth which was also the last Cisitalia ever and Fangio even became world champion for Maserati in ‘48 and’49 before he started racing in the first F1 race ever for Alfa Romeo in 1950. Weren’t they GOATS too? Just saying. Greetings 🙋🏻♀️🏎🏎
The most likely I could see for each would be: Charles ---> Red Bull Max ---> Ferrari Lando ---> Mercedes George ---> Aston Martin Honestly Charles was for sure the hardest to come up with, he is just so wrapped up in Ferrari, but I could maybe see his hunger to win eventually winning out and him deciding going to a hotshot team like Redbull who only care for winning. Max is definitely very loyal to Red Bull, but eventually I could see him making his way over to Ferrari, as they have the most resources. If they were to give him a massive deal and have the car be competitive at the time, especially if Red Bull slump again after the 2022 reg updates, I could see him 100% suiting up in red. Lando I always felt like would gel really well with Mercedes and for a time before he signed again with Mclaren I thought he might just get the seat over George. Plus he has some similarities to Lewis like pointed out in the video. Lastly George I think would definitely hop over to Aston Martin if they were to drop Seb, British Team with a British driver, plus Aston is very linked up to Mercedes so I feel like it wouldn't be too big a transition for him either. Aston also would really love to have a super talented young British gun to lead them to championships in the future and really push the brand harder.
This looks like the driver transfers in the F1 game to me. I don't know, maybe this will happen. Just watched the 2018 US GP and the grid is very different to now.
Jack Brabham? Extraordinary what he was able to do achieve; driver, engineer, team owner and world champion. This is when the teams were smaller and non-factory teams were pretty much racing on an amateur basis, funding themselves as best they could.
As much as I agree no driver will stick to one team if say Charles stays with Ferrari for years wins titles then drops down to Sauber or another Ferrari affiliated team. Or George winning for years with Merc then going back to Williams. I’d still see that as a one team driver as the teams are connected and they stay within the family. That’s just me though.
I mean there's absolutely no way to tell where they are going, they're all signed through the regulation change. However, after next year we'll have a much better picture through 2025/2026 (can't remember when the engine freeze ends), since if Renault and Ferrari don't manage to match the Merc and the Honda/RB, that essentially eliminates Max, George and Lando from going to Ferrari or Alpine, which means essentially the only teams they'd go to are the ones they are currently in plus Aston Martin maybe.
For Verstappen I think he’s got that hunger for multiple championships, so once RB starts to drop the ball, he would definitely leave for another dominant team. With Leclerc, I can only imagine him going back to Alfa Romeo at the end of his career, much like Kimi. As for Russell and Norris, I can’t imagine those two with any other team than Mercedes and McLaren respectively.
I don't want him to leave, he and McLaren just have to be together. But let's say he has right before having to sign a new contract, a season like Lewis had in 2012 or he has the same bad luck as he had in the latter part of this season, he could leave. But I'd be sad if he leaves them. They're just meant to be there for one another imo. The way it looks to me. Especially if Lando stays as fast as he is or becomes even more fast.
We should also add that McLaren was operating as the Merc factory team till 2009. Hence everyone called it McLaren-Mercedes during that period (Similar to Williams-BMW).
Aston Martin kinda inspired this take.... but imagine a new team coming in with the budget to fight at the front. I can see that being major appeal to a Max or Charles!
I remember Jaques Lafite from when I started watching F1! He breifly had or equalled the most ever F1 starts record with about 176-7 odd, memory serving, too.
Norris at MacLaren, Russel (soon to be) at Mercedes, LeClerc at Ferrari, Max at Red Bull are all what we call in the states ‘Franchise Quarterbacks’. They’re synonymous with their teams. Sure things could change, but not for a while.
I think its important to note that Lewis has almost always raced for the factory-supported Mercedes team. 2007-2010 then 2013-onward. Even during the 2010-2012 years at least at the beginning, Mercedes was still treating Mclaren as a Factory team.
Taking into account the amount of investment aston martin is putting in, in developing it's facilities and infrastructure and ultimately in developing a car, it won't be very far off in future that we see one of these talents coming to AM teaming with Sir Lancelot ofc...
if Messi left Barca, anyone has the potential to move anywhere (for those unfamiliar, Messi spent basically his childhood as a Barca player. It was like a 2nd family. He spent all his prime years with the team, even when he was linked with a mega money move to china, but unfortunatley, Barca couldn't afford to keep him, thanks to a, quite frankly, stupid policy of paying players twice what their worth. So he had to go to PSG. It was basically like the Lewis Hamilton of football, but with MORE attachment)
I think George is gonna be the one that moves around the most. Maybe not, but I think moving teams during a massive regulation change is always gonna be a massive gamble.
If McLaren fails to get to the next step and chanllenge for victories week in week out, he'll want out at some point, don't be naive. I'm sure he loves McLaren, but he doesn't want to end his career with 3 circumptancial wins... He'll go where he thinks he has the besr chances. And maybe his choices will be bad, but he won't stay passive in a bad car
People seem to be forgetting that new regulations are coming in 2022, which will essentially shuffle teams around the grid yet again. And obviously the drivers will aim to get in those new top teams. However I do agree with the crowd, that Leclerc will spend the most time in Ferrari, than other drivers in their respective teams.
The thing you really have to consider is that even if they want to stay at their respective teams, they might can’t. There only option then would be to retire or change teams. Even with team loyalty I don’t believe that any of them would give up their F1 career just so they don’t race for another team
@@chrisc475 PG would be good for Ferrari would that not be exactly like having another Carlos? I mean he would be doing the same job as Carlos, as in, the support driver but maybe worse? (I rate Carlos higher than Pierre)
I knew Vettel was never going to to stay at Red Bull forever. It was obvious that he wanted to emulate Schumacher and go to Ferrari even prior to his move to the scarlet red.
There are only three teams on the grid who have the potential to have a one team driver. McLaren, Aston Martin & Alpine. Mercedes, Red Bull & Ferrari will take their drivers from Williams, AlphaTauri & Alfa Romeo/Haas. So any young Merc driver will have a seat at these teams and then either move up to Mercedes or will not retain their seat because a younger driver who shows potential will get it. So these 7 teams will not have one driver. McLaren, Aston Martin & Alpine will send their young drivers directly from F2 so they have the only chance to have a one team driver.
I do feel like McLaren and Lando are on the same trajectory right now, so I could see that relationship lasting for a long time, whereas McLaren was slipping in performance when Hamilton left. Ferrari seems like it can be a bit more unpredictable to me, especially if they aren’t chasing a championship soon they aren’t afraid to start mixing things up. Even if Max moves on it will be hard to think of him as anything but a Red Bull driver.
7:45 Seb had enough of Ferrari’s incapable car and team. The environment already began toxic in 2020 for him, moving to Aston Martin actually being one of his best career choice of all time alongside the RB choice..
1. Lando to Mercedes to partner George OR to RedBull partnering whoever might be there at the time (he'd look good in that suit). 2. Charles stays at Ferrari. 3. Max to McLaren or Ferrari (most likely the former). 4. George to RedBull. I don't know. I just really see Lando and George ending up in the same team's line-up in one way or another.
I have the feeling that because of social media these teams will see that keeping a driver can create a legacy for both the team and the driver. So as long as one of these drivers can stay consistentand the team stays at the top they could stay there their whole career.
I think the strongest relationship right now is norris-mclaren. Norris is clearly more emotional than leclerc, verstappen or russell, hence it is more difficult to imagine him quitting mclaren easily. I think norris-mclaren will stay the longest. I don't see leclerc-ferrari and verstappen-red bull going beyond 2025, at least one of those ties will break.
Here my 2 cents.... Max did say in many interviews that right now he feels great with the team. As long he believes they can give him a competitive car he will be at RBR but as soon as he feels that I don't know Newey will resign or some other factor. He will go for sure. If the 2022 rules will make them at the back of the grid... he will be fast gone. The other 3, Russell, he've been very patient so far. But I do believe when he fails to challenge Hamilton or the 2022 car will be bad, I think he will find another spot. Funny enough I find Norris quite similar to Max his story. The team where down and now going back up together and the team is build around him. McLaren is getting better every season but I do believe when performance is going down it will be hard for him to stay. Last but not least, Leclerc, find it quite interesting to see the development of Leclerc and Sainz. Sainz seems to be more in the grove and he's new to the team. Although you know what they say. You retire at Ferrari (or they fire you)... but they all want to become world champion. They all think they are good enough, so they will all go to other teams to win Championships. I do think IF Verstappen will win (he really need Newey being there and fix his car because he isn't the same car anymore and the Mercedes is much better right now) or when one of those 4 will win a Championship it will be easier to get your way into another team. Last I'm not even a Schumacher fan.... but to keep saying they all went to teams because that wanted the best cars isn't right to say.
Max has a contract up until 2028 with Red Bull. He has said that if he doesn’t feel like it, if the team isn’t up to his expectations at the end of 2028, he will just entirely retire out of F1. Of course I’m not actually paraphrasing, and he can change his mind, now being 2022, but it is basically what he said recently
"Lafitte/Ligier: a team and driver that no one would have heard of before.." Don't worry Aldas, some of us are over 18 years old, have pubic hair for quite some time, and still remember this driver.
As much as drivers want the best seat its not that easy still. I think everybody should acknowledge that championships come through career consistency. Hamilton is at Mercedes for almost 10 years now (and a 6 years of McLaren consistency before). Vettel had quite a bit of run at Red Bull and he had another 5 years at Ferrari fighting for WC in 2018. The list goes back, Rosberg, Schumacher, Hakkinen, Alonso (maybe not Kimi and Button). And I'd reckon drivers know this as well. Check Ricciardo for example, imagine if he was still Max's team mate. But instead he went the inconsistent way of changing teams. (Maybe Alpine will nail the regs and he'll regret that too who knows) All in all even if they change team I think it'd still be for a long term relationship.
They all think their teams can deliver so they will stay at least 2 more seasons. When the new regulations settle down and some teams start falling apart and others thrive, they will lose patience and change teams, no doubt. Great job, aldas
@@mitchellbaker4847 I don't believe so, there is the likes of Gasly, Ocon, Vandoorne, and other drivers who are likely to take Hamilton's place. Especially Gasly, he deserves a seat in a top team other than Red Bull.
If Max leaves Red Bull at the end of 2024, he'll have spent 9 years with Red Bull and he'll only be 27. Meaning he could spend another 9 years in formula one and still be 4 years young than Fernando Alonso is today.
Maybe the only way to stay as a driver for one team for his entire career is if he died during in the middle of the season after a long time from his debut year till his death. Even that is impossible with the modern F1 more safe than ever....
Leclerc to Haas would be very interesting. If Gene, Gunther, Dmitry and company can pull it together and improve as the years go by, they'll need a championship-caliber driver to fire them firmly into the midfield. Charles with his Ferrari links would make that happen, if he does wins a title(s) with Ferrari. It sounds mental crazy and I think Ferrari will want to but an FDA driver in there alongside Nikita, but if that team is wants to push forward, they can't keep bringing in rookies. They need an experienced, talented driver to help them achieve more, its like Bottas to Alfa Romeo we will see next year.
Charles & Ferrari is just a match made in heaven, there's a special aura around him whenever he's in or around a Ferrari, even the great Michael didn't have it.
As of right now I can see Charles leaving with how they are treating him similar to Vettel I see Max staying with Red Bull till he retires same as George Lando is their best driver so far and with Piastri most likely being the next driver instead of Riccardo so I don't see him going
I think the only way a team and/or driver will manage this is if they can remain somewhat on top whenever there's a major rule change while avoiding any internal internal. Schumi and Ferrari lasted untill the fuelling rules came in, Seb and Redbull lost out when the hybrids came and maybe Mercedes will suffer from the 2022 rules. If the driver doesn't perform their team will look for new opportunities and likewise, if the team doesn't perform the driver will look for new opportunities. I honestly believe that the chance of a driver staying with the same team is slim to none.
I think it depends more on the constructor then the driver to be honest, as stated in the video the drivers are out for wins so as long as the current top teams stays as top teams then no the drivers most likely won't leave, but if the constructor drops then there is no reason to stay. With that being said if one of them where to leave their team i think it would be Verstappen, red bull seems to be pretty good to throw one driver to the side when a better one comes.
Norris has history with RB, Max has history and has been linked to Mercedes in the past, Russell and leclerc I can't see going anywhere for a very long time tbh
I think the difference between Lewis and Norris at McLaren is Lewis came in when McLaren was still up there but Norris came into McLaren while it was growing. I do believe he will leave but he'll probably leave after 9/10 seasons.
I request everyone to see this video in 2023. Just see the damage in relationship between Leclerc and Ferrari. Max has a contract till '28 which ofc can be terminated earlier. Lando is rumoured to be having talks with Red Bull. George is in Merc and has beaten Hamilton in their first season together as teammates. 😱
Drivers are loyal to success, not to any team or anyone. These drivers might look happy now because there are possiblities, but once the new regulation drops, some teams will under deliever, give it a few years, the relationship will turn soar quickly.
Wild prediction: After Aston Martin's pretty poor 2021 season, they make a big step up the field and start looking in contention to be fighting for a championship in the near future. With Vettel looking to retire in the near future, they poach Verstappen as Red Bull takes a drop down the order from over-developing the RB16.
I believe That Charles could do it. There are already more rumors that he will extend his Ferrari contract till 2027. Also he rejected Redbull without even thinking about it
The one driver I can see spending their rest of their career at their current team is Lance
Good point
@@duxandrespasha *Good racing point
Its already his second team so stroll is out
@@-avinash2344 williams is the same team?
@@princessaka3189 Roy said current team
I can remember thinking Vettel would be with Red Bull forever. All it took was one bad season for them both to say their goodbyes. If a four-time champion can be gone just like that, no one is irreplaceable in this sport.
Exactly that
@@Aldas001 You forgot to mention lance stroll
It wasn’t the bad year - Seb always said his dream was to drive for Ferrari, and they came knocking
@@Matthiasnoscal already raced for a team thats not his dads team though?
@@chrisrougue yeah williams
Antonio Giovinazzi will be at one team for his entire career since he’s about to be dropped
well if that's the case, then there are a bunch of drivers that have raced for one or two seasons for the same team
@@JoseRodriguez-ey7ju Felipe Nasr
@@JoseRodriguez-ey7ju difference is antonio has been alfa since 2017 i think
@@JoseRodriguez-ey7ju its a joke bro, theres obviously drivers like Stoffel who only drove for one team cuz they got dropped
"Long and successful career" you didn't fit within the parameters.
It's probably the younger fans who have the hardest time imagining team changes. There was once a time when it was unthinkable that Kimi would race for Ferrari or Schumi for any other team than Ferrari. And yet they both swapped teams. Alonso leaving Renault for McLaren was also a weird move, but above all Lewis had raced for McLaren his entire career. No one thought he'd leave the team to go anywhere else.
So we've been in this situation before. I don't think Leclerc, Norris, or Verstappen would stay at their current teams if they started faltering any more than Lewis, Kimi, or Fernando did.
I mean Schumi's is a different case tho but still true
Can't believe Kimi to Ferrari felt unreal twice, but not as unreal as Kimi to Alfa Romeo (Sauber) felt
@@rhodrage Kimi to Sauber is considered "back to where we started" thing, you know like maybe back to the parent's village or something
on the other hand, Kimi to Ferrari is like "you are supposed to defeat them, not join them" moment imo
and, Lewis to Merc was WTF1 moment back then, funny when we look back
Alsono to Ferrari was also a weird move.
I have zero doubt that Max will leave Red Bull willingly at some point. Max still has at least 10 PRIME years ahead of him, and he’s the only driver on pace to challenge Hamilton’s records (right now). If Red Bull’s performance slips, he’ll go to the best team and challenge for championships, no questions asked
These driver-team relationships seem airtight when things are going well, but circumstances change season by season. You can’t look too far ahead
What If that best team is Ferrari or mercedes. They will already have their number 1 in leclerc and Russel and I'm sure a solid number 2 like sainz ocon etc.
Then what does he do?
@@zameernizam3825 Then he stays at Red Bull until an opportunity opens up, he accepts an offer to join a team with the likes of Russell or Leclerc (which has been done before), or Russell or Leclerc get pushed out in favor of Max, which also isn’t out of the question in the future if max is a world champion, given that Kimi was pushed out for Alonso in 2010, and Alonso was pushed out for Seb in 2014
@@cody95 Alonso wasnt pushed out for Seb lol
@@serxhiokasa3665 not necessarily pushed out FOR seb, but was pushed out even though he was signed for the following season
@@cody95 I have to disagree with you there. Kimi wanted to leave f1 anyway for a sabbatical. Alonso and Ferrari had much tension built up over those years, and it was essentially a mutual breakup.
Leclerc verstappen are essentially almost equally talented (maybe Russel too) so there'd be no need for Ferrari to push out leclerc in favour of a driver equally as good, than 1 who's well integrated into the team.
McLaren is really the only option. Or another unexpected championship contender.
I do see Norris potentially moving to merc with George. Other than that, Ferrari and RB have their driver academies with loads of talent to act as no.2 drivers.
2:42 Excuse me. Mika Hakkinen did not retire. He is on a sabatical! His definately coming back soon!
Maybe as a team boss 🥰😍👍👌🤞
We must end the sabbatical. This is going waaaay to long. He needs to get that alfa seat asap.
@@somerandominternetuser9172 :))) That would be something :)) I would actually love to see him in the McLaren garage, at least from time to time.
He's the answer to Red Bulls second seat dilemma
Now I'm curious, how would mika actually do if he returned?
Verstappen? Norris? Leclerc? They all want to be at the dominant team, still going to drive more than 10 years. More than 10 years in a row being the best team is nearly impossible, especially if the teams are going to be closer to each other due to cost cap
Norris and Leclerc seem VERY attached to their teams....Verstappen? I don't see him as a singular RB driver for som reason.
Mostly likely leclerc will stay in Ferrari and he most probably stay there forever
@@quasar303 Yeah but he has also driven for Sauber already
Leclerc isn’t a one team driver
@@micahkiyimba8641 agreed.
People thought Hamilton would never leave Maclaren
Exactly. His connection to McLaren was just as strong if not stronger than the current drivers' connections to their respective teams.
I remember well, when Hamilton burst upon the scene, he stated boldly and clearly that he intended to spend his entire career with McLaren. I chuckled to myself at the time 'cause we all knew that wouldn't happen.
Heck, even Hamilton said that back in his McLaren years, then 2012 happened...
McLaren-Mercedes, and he never really did
Well it was the McLaren Mercedes young driver program he just divorced half of a team at the time really 🤣
Interesting fact:
The only ever driver’s champion to only drive for one team is Jim Clark, who drove just for Lotus from 1960-1968, winning two titles. He would have continued with Lotus even if he hadn’t died in Hockenheim, Colin Chapman & Jim Clark were close friends.
yeah he literally said it in the video lmao
@@UltraBanshee he didn’t mention Chapman & Clark being close friends though.
Chapman had a big of trauma from thier bond being broken like that
@@T0NYMANUEL indeed. A bit like Enzo Ferrari with Giuseppe Campari & Gilles Villeneuve.
Interesting fact: this was literally almost said word-for-word in the video
For me at least, what drove Seb to Ferrari was the fact he had to win it there because of The Michael. Seb grew up watching Schumacher tear up the track in the red car, no way Seb wasn't going there too.
Max? Max doesn't seem to have those dreams. He wants a team that is competitive and always behind him, and I can't see him leaving RedBull anytime soon because of that. RBR is 100% behind Max in a way I don't see other teams do with their drivers. So yeah, I think Max is in RBR for the long haul.
Poor Seb...
Horner said on DTS that if Max doesn't place 3rd or higher in the standings he is free to leave no questions asked, that was on DTS
@@mawile3037 Most drivers that are at the top have exit-clauses in their contract. I think Seb left Red Bull with a similar clause.
@@nealfirstofhisname that makes sense, from top tier team to midfield shenanigans, understandable that top talent dropping down on the grid because of the car not because of their own ability would want to float back to the top asap
I mean Max did grow up around Michael... so who knows... he'd proberly rellish the chance tbh.
The only one who can technically still do that is Norris, Max raced for Toro Rosso and Leclerc for Sauber
Yup
Norris is the only one team driver with championship potential, but Yuki, Mick, Mazapin, latif, and Gio have also only raced for one team so far
Yes
But I feel like the junior teams should count towards that because their the same group
@@baileyjones4379 nah man mazepin will win it
I could see Lando and George teaming up at either Mercedes of Mclaren at some point if the other got their car wrong for a number of years
Mika never retired! he’s just waiting for the right time to come back!
My prediction comes from the F1 2021 career mode where
Verstappen to McLaren
Russell to Alfa Romeo
Norris to Aston Martin
Leclerc to Red Bull
Mick to Mercedes
What in the actual fuck
@@tanmay4217 yeah crazy and i have Valtteri bottas as my wingnan in s4 finally.
Bro, my own MyTeam career driver transfers had Jack Aitken to Red Bull (replacing a retiring Sergio Perez), Callum Ilott to Williams (replacing Russell when I signed him onto my team), Christian Lundgaard to Alpine (replacing a retiring Fernando Alonso) and Guanyu Zhou to Aston Martin (replacing a retiring Sebastian Vettel), and Pedro Piquet to Alfa Romeo. As for the driver transfers in my normal driver career mode I had Pierre Gasly to Mercedes, Italian Jesus to Alpine, Mick Schumacher to Alfa Romeo (which is the only other one that logically made sense besides Ilott to Alfa), Callum Ilott to Alpha Tauri (to replace Gasly) then he moved to Alfa in the midst of a season after they hired Latifi, Christian Lundgaard to Williams, and of course I still couldn't escape having Guanyu Zhou as my teammate except this time at Aston Martin 😂
I think you're undermining gasly here.!!!
@@AdityaSingh-rp4mt it's a rá dinky generated game, why do Gasly fans have to bring Gasly into everything
Hamilton is as close as we're going to get in the modern era
Drove with only 1 engine manufacturer
@@gregoryrogers.21 and Mercedes owned McLaren when he signed and drove with them half the time
@@UA-cam2021FM i don't recall Mercedes owning McLaren, however they were title sponsor back then probably making the engine cheaper for McLaren
@@UA-cam2021FM I'm not sure if Mercedes ever owned Mclaren, although they did consider buying it in before acquiring Brawn
@@urilou777 Mclaren were the Mercedes works team, similar to Redbull and Renault back in the Vettel era
Jim Clark is arguably the best driver of all time. I don't mean F1 driver, I mean actual driver. He won in any kind of car he ever drive. True GOAT 🐐
@Luke Brown.. agree but what about Fangio and Tazio Nuvolare? They also won in every car they ever drove! Tazio won his last race ever in the first Abarth which was also the last Cisitalia ever and Fangio even became world champion for Maserati in ‘48 and’49 before he started racing in the first F1 race ever for Alfa Romeo in 1950. Weren’t they GOATS too? Just saying. Greetings 🙋🏻♀️🏎🏎
@@alexardies3171 Good Point but because Clark was Younger its likely he would've surpassed Fangio and Tazio if he had lived, same is true with Senna.
The most likely I could see for each would be:
Charles ---> Red Bull
Max ---> Ferrari
Lando ---> Mercedes
George ---> Aston Martin
Honestly Charles was for sure the hardest to come up with, he is just so wrapped up in Ferrari, but I could maybe see his hunger to win eventually winning out and him deciding going to a hotshot team like Redbull who only care for winning.
Max is definitely very loyal to Red Bull, but eventually I could see him making his way over to Ferrari, as they have the most resources. If they were to give him a massive deal and have the car be competitive at the time, especially if Red Bull slump again after the 2022 reg updates, I could see him 100% suiting up in red.
Lando I always felt like would gel really well with Mercedes and for a time before he signed again with Mclaren I thought he might just get the seat over George. Plus he has some similarities to Lewis like pointed out in the video.
Lastly George I think would definitely hop over to Aston Martin if they were to drop Seb, British Team with a British driver, plus Aston is very linked up to Mercedes so I feel like it wouldn't be too big a transition for him either. Aston also would really love to have a super talented young British gun to lead them to championships in the future and really push the brand harder.
This looks like the driver transfers in the F1 game to me.
I don't know, maybe this will happen. Just watched the 2018 US GP and the grid is very different to now.
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Jack Brabham? Extraordinary what he was able to do achieve; driver, engineer, team owner and world champion. This is when the teams were smaller and non-factory teams were pretty much racing on an amateur basis, funding themselves as best they could.
As much as I agree no driver will stick to one team if say Charles stays with Ferrari for years wins titles then drops down to Sauber or another Ferrari affiliated team. Or George winning for years with Merc then going back to Williams. I’d still see that as a one team driver as the teams are connected and they stay within the family. That’s just me though.
yep I agree as Max drove for Toro Rosso but that is the RB Jr team so in my opinion, he's still a 1 team driver
I mean there's absolutely no way to tell where they are going, they're all signed through the regulation change. However, after next year we'll have a much better picture through 2025/2026 (can't remember when the engine freeze ends), since if Renault and Ferrari don't manage to match the Merc and the Honda/RB, that essentially eliminates Max, George and Lando from going to Ferrari or Alpine, which means essentially the only teams they'd go to are the ones they are currently in plus Aston Martin maybe.
For Verstappen I think he’s got that hunger for multiple championships, so once RB starts to drop the ball, he would definitely leave for another dominant team. With Leclerc, I can only imagine him going back to Alfa Romeo at the end of his career, much like Kimi. As for Russell and Norris, I can’t imagine those two with any other team than Mercedes and McLaren respectively.
I’ve always thought Lando would be a one man team! I can’t ever see him leaving McLaren
I'm sure people thought the same about lewis
I don't want him to leave, he and McLaren just have to be together. But let's say he has right before having to sign a new contract, a season like Lewis had in 2012 or he has the same bad luck as he had in the latter part of this season, he could leave. But I'd be sad if he leaves them. They're just meant to be there for one another imo. The way it looks to me. Especially if Lando stays as fast as he is or becomes even more fast.
@@cedricasdfghjkl9151 I believe lando will go to red bull in a couple of years.
I sure hope Mazepin spends the entirety of his short carreer at Haas
Don't forget to mention, Jim Clark still holds a record even to this day, most grand chelems in F1
That's not what the video is about...
Cool, but I don’t think anyone here asked to be totally honest with you
I can't imagine Verstappen and Leclerc in anything other than a Red Bull and Ferrari
I couldn't imagine Seb and Lewis in anything else than a Red Bull and McLaren. Yet here we are
I can image Norris in a Merc or RB
@Chaska I can't, especially after the British GP this year.
I can't imagine Lando outside of McLaren, I can only imagine him driving for McLaren in F1, and Arrow McLaren SP in Indycar
We should also add that McLaren was operating as the Merc factory team till 2009. Hence everyone called it McLaren-Mercedes during that period (Similar to Williams-BMW).
Aston Martin kinda inspired this take.... but imagine a new team coming in with the budget to fight at the front. I can see that being major appeal to a Max or Charles!
Well, they basically all have the same budget now
It's a bit of a stretch to include Mansell given his tenure at Williams was split over 3 different stints...
I remember Jaques Lafite from when I started watching F1! He breifly had or equalled the most ever F1 starts record with about 176-7 odd, memory serving, too.
Norris at MacLaren, Russel (soon to be) at Mercedes, LeClerc at Ferrari, Max at Red Bull are all what we call in the states ‘Franchise Quarterbacks’. They’re synonymous with their teams.
Sure things could change, but not for a while.
A bad year is all it takes.
I think its important to note that Lewis has almost always raced for the factory-supported Mercedes team. 2007-2010 then 2013-onward. Even during the 2010-2012 years at least at the beginning, Mercedes was still treating Mclaren as a Factory team.
You got to be joking😂😂
Do you really think with Michael in there that Mercedes works Team was just there to make up the numbers?
I think it's a special coincidence that Landos and Lewis' current contracts do end at the same season (after 2023) :D
I thought Danny Ric wouldn't leave RB unless merc came knocking, here we are now
Taking into account the amount of investment aston martin is putting in, in developing it's facilities and infrastructure and ultimately in developing a car, it won't be very far off in future that we see one of these talents coming to AM teaming with Sir Lancelot ofc...
Old Man Lando looks like Captain Bird's Eye haha.
Love all my f1 content creators. But your videos are next level man. Thank you for your work!
*gasp* will Lando finally grow a beard? the world is saved
if Messi left Barca, anyone has the potential to move anywhere
(for those unfamiliar, Messi spent basically his childhood as a Barca player. It was like a 2nd family. He spent all his prime years with the team, even when he was linked with a mega money move to china, but unfortunatley, Barca couldn't afford to keep him, thanks to a, quite frankly, stupid policy of paying players twice what their worth. So he had to go to PSG. It was basically like the Lewis Hamilton of football, but with MORE attachment)
Aldas! Mika Hakkinen is on Sabbatical, He's coming back when the time is right!!!!!!
LET US HOPE!
I think George is gonna be the one that moves around the most. Maybe not, but I think moving teams during a massive regulation change is always gonna be a massive gamble.
We've seen Jules Bianchi (RIP) drive for Marussia only. He would've been driving for Sauber in 2015 and maybe Ferrari nowadays.
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I remember lando saying how if he could he would never leave McLaren, whether that may apply in the future who knows 🤷♀️
Norris is probably the only one that will do it, hopefully anyway as a Mclaren fan I never want him to leave
If McLaren fails to get to the next step and chanllenge for victories week in week out, he'll want out at some point, don't be naive.
I'm sure he loves McLaren, but he doesn't want to end his career with 3 circumptancial wins... He'll go where he thinks he has the besr chances. And maybe his choices will be bad, but he won't stay passive in a bad car
@@hugolouessard3914 Mclaren won't have a bad car they will win the double in 2022
@@tommychong9055 Well, there is a chance. But I doubt it honnestly.
@@tommychong9055 Aged well LOL
People seem to be forgetting that new regulations are coming in 2022, which will essentially shuffle teams around the grid yet again. And obviously the drivers will aim to get in those new top teams. However I do agree with the crowd, that Leclerc will spend the most time in Ferrari, than other drivers in their respective teams.
The thing you really have to consider is that even if they want to stay at their respective teams, they might can’t. There only option then would be to retire or change teams. Even with team loyalty I don’t believe that any of them would give up their F1 career just so they don’t race for another team
I mean goatifi is ending his career a williams legend having only driven for them
I know he wasn't part of the conversation, but gasly to AM when Seb leaves
Huge fan of PG here. AM makes sense, but could also see him at McLaren (or even Ferrari)
@@chrisc475 PG would be good for Ferrari would that not be exactly like having another Carlos? I mean he would be doing the same job as Carlos, as in, the support driver but maybe worse? (I rate Carlos higher than Pierre)
@@chrisc475 McLaren or AM is interesting though. Would love to see how it pans out
Your videos are always awesome
Im pretty sure mazepin is gonna stay loyal to Haas
Because Haas will be loyal to the oligarchy
Is it called loyalty when the only other option is watching on tv?
@@safcjcp Yeah he's ensuring his 30 million is getting spent 😂
But not the other way around...
I knew Vettel was never going to to stay at Red Bull forever. It was obvious that he wanted to emulate Schumacher and go to Ferrari even prior to his move to the scarlet red.
There are only three teams on the grid who have the potential to have a one team driver. McLaren, Aston Martin & Alpine.
Mercedes, Red Bull & Ferrari will take their drivers from Williams, AlphaTauri & Alfa Romeo/Haas.
So any young Merc driver will have a seat at these teams and then either move up to Mercedes or will not retain their seat because a younger driver who shows potential will get it. So these 7 teams will not have one driver.
McLaren, Aston Martin & Alpine will send their young drivers directly from F2 so they have the only chance to have a one team driver.
I do feel like McLaren and Lando are on the same trajectory right now, so I could see that relationship lasting for a long time, whereas McLaren was slipping in performance when Hamilton left.
Ferrari seems like it can be a bit more unpredictable to me, especially if they aren’t chasing a championship soon they aren’t afraid to start mixing things up.
Even if Max moves on it will be hard to think of him as anything but a Red Bull driver.
if they can get them selves into the title race. lando's in his 4th season. how long will he wait?
7:45 Seb had enough of Ferrari’s incapable car and team. The environment already began toxic in 2020 for him, moving to Aston Martin actually being one of his best career choice of all time alongside the RB choice..
1. Lando to Mercedes to partner George OR to RedBull partnering whoever might be there at the time (he'd look good in that suit).
2. Charles stays at Ferrari.
3. Max to McLaren or Ferrari (most likely the former).
4. George to RedBull.
I don't know. I just really see Lando and George ending up in the same team's line-up in one way or another.
I have the feeling that because of social media these teams will see that keeping a driver can create a legacy for both the team and the driver. So as long as one of these drivers can stay consistentand the team stays at the top they could stay there their whole career.
Kimi drove for himself for 20 years plus. He must be the one.
I think the strongest relationship right now is norris-mclaren. Norris is clearly more emotional than leclerc, verstappen or russell, hence it is more difficult to imagine him quitting mclaren easily.
I think norris-mclaren will stay the longest. I don't see leclerc-ferrari and verstappen-red bull going beyond 2025, at least one of those ties will break.
me coming back to this video when LANDO moves to mercedes
ahhhh ALDAS knew it all along
Here my 2 cents.... Max did say in many interviews that right now he feels great with the team. As long he believes they can give him a competitive car he will be at RBR but as soon as he feels that I don't know Newey will resign or some other factor. He will go for sure. If the 2022 rules will make them at the back of the grid... he will be fast gone.
The other 3, Russell, he've been very patient so far. But I do believe when he fails to challenge Hamilton or the 2022 car will be bad, I think he will find another spot. Funny enough I find Norris quite similar to Max his story. The team where down and now going back up together and the team is build around him. McLaren is getting better every season but I do believe when performance is going down it will be hard for him to stay. Last but not least, Leclerc, find it quite interesting to see the development of Leclerc and Sainz. Sainz seems to be more in the grove and he's new to the team. Although you know what they say. You retire at Ferrari (or they fire you)... but they all want to become world champion. They all think they are good enough, so they will all go to other teams to win Championships.
I do think IF Verstappen will win (he really need Newey being there and fix his car because he isn't the same car anymore and the Mercedes is much better right now) or when one of those 4 will win a Championship it will be easier to get your way into another team.
Last I'm not even a Schumacher fan.... but to keep saying they all went to teams because that wanted the best cars isn't right to say.
Max has a contract up until 2028 with Red Bull. He has said that if he doesn’t feel like it, if the team isn’t up to his expectations at the end of 2028, he will just entirely retire out of F1. Of course I’m not actually paraphrasing, and he can change his mind, now being 2022, but it is basically what he said recently
Teams change and I think we'll eventually see a shift amongst the pecking order that will likely make those in their current rides move on to new ones
Was literally thinking about this , Adrian Sutil comes to mind
for sauber or force india?
"Lafitte/Ligier: a team and driver that no one would have heard of before.."
Don't worry Aldas, some of us are over 18 years old, have pubic hair for quite some time, and still remember this driver.
I had the same reaction. I took it personally 😂
I can see Max and Lance spending all their time at their current teams.
As much as drivers want the best seat its not that easy still. I think everybody should acknowledge that championships come through career consistency. Hamilton is at Mercedes for almost 10 years now (and a 6 years of McLaren consistency before). Vettel had quite a bit of run at Red Bull and he had another 5 years at Ferrari fighting for WC in 2018. The list goes back, Rosberg, Schumacher, Hakkinen, Alonso (maybe not Kimi and Button). And I'd reckon drivers know this as well. Check Ricciardo for example, imagine if he was still Max's team mate. But instead he went the inconsistent way of changing teams. (Maybe Alpine will nail the regs and he'll regret that too who knows)
All in all even if they change team I think it'd still be for a long term relationship.
Button was at Brawn GP (used to be Honda) since 2004 until he won the championship in 09, so it makes your point even stronger.
@@amld14 Im relatively new to F1 (started following in 2016) so Im not 100% sure about past knowledge. Thanks for telling without toxicity
They all think their teams can deliver so they will stay at least 2 more seasons. When the new regulations settle down and some teams start falling apart and others thrive, they will lose patience and change teams, no doubt.
Great job, aldas
I'm convinced Lando will replace Lewis when he retires from f1
I think Lando will stay with McLaren the longest. I cant imagine him with any other team tbh.
I get the feeling Mercedes is looking at him as a Hamilton replacement in the future.
@@mitchellbaker4847 I don't believe so, there is the likes of Gasly, Ocon, Vandoorne, and other drivers who are likely to take Hamilton's place.
Especially Gasly, he deserves a seat in a top team other than Red Bull.
@@C1rcusMaximus I agree I think mercedes will go for gasly he deserves it and even mercedes knows how consistent he is
If Max leaves Red Bull at the end of 2024, he'll have spent 9 years with Red Bull and he'll only be 27. Meaning he could spend another 9 years in formula one and still be 4 years young than Fernando Alonso is today.
I need to say max has to this day alott of loyalty to redbull with his contract extensions in 2017 and 2019
Maybe the only way to stay as a driver for one team for his entire career is if he died during in the middle of the season after a long time from his debut year till his death. Even that is impossible with the modern F1 more safe than ever....
4:49 oh how I wish modern F1 cars could even do that.
Leclerc to Haas would be very interesting. If Gene, Gunther, Dmitry and company can pull it together and improve as the years go by, they'll need a championship-caliber driver to fire them firmly into the midfield. Charles with his Ferrari links would make that happen, if he does wins a title(s) with Ferrari. It sounds mental crazy and I think Ferrari will want to but an FDA driver in there alongside Nikita, but if that team is wants to push forward, they can't keep bringing in rookies. They need an experienced, talented driver to help them achieve more, its like Bottas to Alfa Romeo we will see next year.
Charles & Ferrari is just a match made in heaven, there's a special aura around him whenever he's in or around a Ferrari, even the great Michael didn't have it.
Verstappen could be an early 2000s Ferrari Driver ;)
As of right now I can see Charles leaving with how they are treating him similar to Vettel I see Max staying with Red Bull till he retires same as George Lando is their best driver so far and with Piastri most likely being the next driver instead of Riccardo so I don't see him going
I normally love your work but this is grasping at straws!!!
I think the only way a team and/or driver will manage this is if they can remain somewhat on top whenever there's a major rule change while avoiding any internal internal. Schumi and Ferrari lasted untill the fuelling rules came in, Seb and Redbull lost out when the hybrids came and maybe Mercedes will suffer from the 2022 rules.
If the driver doesn't perform their team will look for new opportunities and likewise, if the team doesn't perform the driver will look for new opportunities. I honestly believe that the chance of a driver staying with the same team is slim to none.
How u always so fresh Aldas, so qt
4:49 that move tho
I think odds are pretty good they’ll spend their prime with the same team, but at some point new talent is going to come in and replace them
i like and respect that they are loyal to their teams.. and i am old AF :P has nothing with being young, just different times :)
I think it depends more on the constructor then the driver to be honest, as stated in the video the drivers are out for wins so as long as the current top teams stays as top teams then no the drivers most likely won't leave, but if the constructor drops then there is no reason to stay.
With that being said if one of them where to leave their team i think it would be Verstappen, red bull seems to be pretty good to throw one driver to the side when a better one comes.
Norris has history with RB, Max has history and has been linked to Mercedes in the past, Russell and leclerc I can't see going anywhere for a very long time tbh
I can! LeClerc will be frustrated if Ferrari destroy all his chances to win a title every year
I think Max counts as a 1 team driver, same arguably goes for Charles and George Russel. Toro Rosso is basically RB
Russel to Alpine is not that crazy because we saw at DTS how Toto got the seat for Esteban Ocon
I think Lando will spend most of his career at McLaren.
I feel Lando might take a similar trajectory to Hamilton and move on Mercedes at some point of time in future
I could very easily see Verstappen to Aston Martin in the future
Interesting topic!
I think the difference between Lewis and Norris at McLaren is Lewis came in when McLaren was still up there but Norris came into McLaren while it was growing. I do believe he will leave but he'll probably leave after 9/10 seasons.
I request everyone to see this video in 2023.
Just see the damage in relationship between Leclerc and Ferrari.
Max has a contract till '28 which ofc can be terminated earlier.
Lando is rumoured to be having talks with Red Bull.
George is in Merc and has beaten Hamilton in their first season together as teammates.
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"...and he also retired as a McLaren driver."
I believe you mean "went on hiatus." He'll be back any day now.
One day Max will be beaten by an excellent youngest, Hamilton retiring, Charles frustrated with Ferrari. Can't wait for those days .
I think and pray that Charles remains at Ferrari forever
Drivers are loyal to success, not to any team or anyone. These drivers might look happy now because there are possiblities, but once the new regulation drops, some teams will under deliever, give it a few years, the relationship will turn soar quickly.
That thumbnail tho xD
Jimmie Johnson in the background, who was in the #48 Hendrick Chevy for his whole career: *Laughs*
Wild prediction: After Aston Martin's pretty poor 2021 season, they make a big step up the field and start looking in contention to be fighting for a championship in the near future. With Vettel looking to retire in the near future, they poach Verstappen as Red Bull takes a drop down the order from over-developing the RB16.
I believe That Charles could do it. There are already more rumors that he will extend his Ferrari contract till 2027. Also he rejected Redbull without even thinking about it
Charles raced for Sauber