There are just four seats remaining on the 2026 F1 grid after Mercedes finally officially confirmed the extensions of George Russell and Kimi Antonelli.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although boss Toto Wolff had indicated a decision was close in previous months, it had taken until now for the Briton and Italian to be confirmed as the team’s 2026 line-up, on what have been described as multi-year contracts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It leaves three of the four Red Bull-backed seats, Max Verstappen aside, to be filled with Yuki Tsunoda, Isack Hadjar, and Liam Lawson, all hoping to stay in F1 for next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The identity of the second Alpine driver is also yet to be announced, although Franco Colapinto does look set to stay on as Pierre Gasly’s team-mate.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, the grid will expand to 22 cars for the first time since 2016, with the arrival of Cadillac and its uber-experienced line-up of Valterri Bottas and Sergio Perez.<\/p>\n
Take a look below at those confirmed for the 2026 F1 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are just four seats remaining on the 2026 F1 grid after Mercedes finally officially confirmed the extensions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-215616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}