Formula One’s official entry list for the 2023 season has been released by the FIA and here’s everything you need to know about it – F1 driver numbers for 2023 season.
FIA has officially released the driver numbers for the 2023 Formula One season. The season-opener is still more than three months away but all teams are already set with their driver line-ups. The new season is scheduled to begin on March 5 in Bahrain and end on November 26 in Abu Dhabi.
The racing numbers have mostly remained the same throughout the grid barring the three new entries. McLaren’s Oscar Piastri has chosen No.81 for himself and Alpha Tauri’s Nyck de Vries and Williams’ Logan Sargeant will race with numbers 21 and 2 respectively. The entry list also reflects a name tweak on the engine front, with Red Bull and AlphaTauri’s supplier now listed as ‘Honda RBPT’ compared to last year when it was just ‘RBPT’.
The new season of Formula One is less than three months away and teams already seem to have finalised their drivers’ lineup for 2023. The 2023 F1 grid will see a number of new faces while we will certainly miss four-time World Champion, Sebastian Vettel, who decided to retire at the end of 2022 season. Let us take a look at the teams and drivers who are set to be a part of the 2023 F1 World Championship.
There will be three debutants in the F1 grid next season – Nyck de Vries (Alpha Tauri), Oscar Piastri (McLaren) and Logan Sargeant (Williams). We will also see the full-time return of Nico Hulkenberg for the first time since 2019, who has replaced Mick Schumacher at Haas. Meanwhile, Aston Martin has roped in two-time World Champion, Fernando Alonso to fill the spot vacated by the retiring Sebastian Vettel.
McLaren has brought in Oscar Piastri after Alonso’s departure from the team. Yuki Tsunoda has moved on to Alpha Tauri while Alpine have signed Esteban Ocon to partner with Gasly in the Japanese driver’s place. Nicholas Latifi, Mick Schumacher and Daniel Ricciardo are unfortunately missing out and won’t be a full-time part of the F1 grid next season.
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