The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 2024 driver line-up is identical to 2023’s - it is the first time in history that every driver is unchanged𝓡 from the previous year.

But amid a sea of expiring contracts and impatient team principals, the chopping and changing of drivers 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, are busy battling away♊ to secure their long-term driver duo.

Leclerc has been in talks over a new contract for some time alꦏthough he 💜hasn’t yet put pen to paper.

“Souඣrces say contract talks with Leclerc are taking precedence,” Lawrence Barretto at reports about Ferrari’s plans.

Leclerc was paid a reported $19m last year bu﷽t will want a significant pay rise to commit the next few years to Ferrari.

His current deal will expire at th🧔e end of the season.

Italian media reported last month that he had agreed a new five-year deal to stay untꦿil the end🌺 of 2029.

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur pointed out that Mercedes required half of last season until they finali♐sed Lewis Hamilton’s new contract, suggesting Leclerc’s time-frame may be similarꦍ.

"We are not i🐠n a rush to extend the deals but have started discussions,” Vasseur told Sky in Italy. 

“Mercedes did it in August. W♛e are not in a rush at all.”

The competitiveness in🏅 the early grands prix may i🐈nfluence 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 wil🌌l keep Max V♍erstappen plus one other in 2025, while Mercedes are committed to Hamilton and George Russell.