While we have had some important decisions made already – like Lewis Hamilton to Ferrari and Fernando Alonso re-committing to Aston Martin – there remains a great deal still to be sorted.
What is perhaps most fascinating though is that not everyone is running to the same timing agenda, and that has left things hugely complicated for both drivers and teams as they try to plot their best path forward.
On the one hand, teams like Mercedes and Red Bull are pretty relaxed with how things are playing out as they look ready to bide their time and wait to see what their best options are for 2025.
At Red Bull, Sergio Perez is doing enough to justify him being retained once again, but we have seen strong starts to a campaign not follow through to the remainder of the year.
That is why the team has repeatedly said that it wants to wait a while – potentially until the summer – to choose what it does with who lines up alongside Max Verstappen.
Mercedes is also playing a watching brief on things as it plots who best to slot in as George Russell’s team-mate in 2025 as replacement for Hamilton.
The early favourite is Andrea Kimi Antonelli, whose F1 testing programme has been expanded as the German manufacturer intends to do everything it can to get him up to speed with grand prix machinery.
Source: Autosport