Driver For: Mercedes
Age: 38
Instagram Followers: 31.5 million
Relationship Status: Currently azygous aft romances with Nicole Scherzinger, Rita Ora and Winnie Harlow. He besides reportedly dated Nicki Minaj, Sofia Richie and was past linked to exemplary Camila Kendra in 2021.
Need to Know Facts: Um, he's arguably the champion Formula One operator of each time? With 7 wins, Hamilton is tied with Michael Schumacher for astir World Drivers' Championships. He besides holds the records for astir wins, rod positions and podium finishes.

By acold the sport's astir well-known figure, Hamilton works with celebrity stylist Law Roach and counts Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Kendall Jenner, Dwyane Wade, Gabrielle Union and Will Smith among his celebrated friends.

Hamilton is besides the first, and truthful acold only, Black operator successful F1 past and the activistic launched The Hamilton Commission, an inaugural to amended diverseness wrong Motorsport UK.

Driver For: Red Bull
Age: 26
Instagram Followers: 9.4 million
Relationship Status: Currently dating Kelly Piquet, the girl of three-time Formula One World Champion Nelson Piquet and the ex-girlfriend of Verstappen's erstwhile rival Daniil Kvyat.
Need to Know Facts: At 17, he became the youngest driver to ever vie successful a Formula One contention and astatine 18 helium was the youngest to triumph one, with galore successful the athletics dubbing him the  "Chosen One." The Dutch racer was the archetypal person in years to springiness Lewis Hamilton immoderate superior contention for the championship, with the 2 getting into a headline-making collision astatine the British Grand Prix before—spoiler alert!—Verstappen yet bushed the seven-time champ successful arguable fashion. 

Though helium infamously threatened to punch rival (yep, different one!) Esteban Ocon during a 2018 race, Verstappen has settled down implicit the years, adopting a calmer approach. 

"You person to recognize that if it's not your day, it's not your day, and you person to settee for a definite result," helium explained to Red Bull. "It's much than conscionable a one-weekend wonder. We person to marque definite that adjacent if we don't person a cleanable weekend, we inactive people a batch of points. It's a antithetic approach."

And helium took an absorbing 1 successful play 4 of Drive to Survive, declining to beryllium down for interviews. But viewers tin expect to spot him reply producers' questions successful the series' 5th installment. 

Driver For: Ferrari
Age: 25
Instagram Followers: 9.9 million
Relationship Status: He was successful a narration with influencer Charlotte Sine, but the mates broke up successful December 2022 aft 3 years of dating.
Need to Know Facts: Just 3 years aged erstwhile helium began driving, LeClerc is 1 of the sport's up-and-coming stars. In 2017, he won an F2 contention conscionable 4 days aft the decease of his father, Herve LeClerc. He went connected to triumph the title rubric that year. 

LeClerc is champion friends with Pierre Gasly, with the 2 drivers gathering erstwhile they were just 5 years old.

Driver For: Ferrari
Age: 28
Instagram Followers: 6.2 million
Relationship Status: Reportedly dating Isabel Hernaez.
Need to Know Facts: The lad of champion rally operator Carlos Sainz, helium competed for 3 teams earlier achieving his eventual goal. 

"I person ever pictured myself arsenic a Ferrari driver," Sainz told The Race successful March 2021. "I conscionable felt close. I don't cognize why. It's a unusual feeling. It's ever been similar that."

Driver For: McLaren
Age: 32
Instagram Followers: 7.7 million
Relationship Status: Reportedly dating actress Heidi Berger.
Need to Know Facts: The outgoing Aussie is 1 of the sport's astir fashionable drivers and was 1 of the breakout stars from the Netflix series. Ricciardo made his debut for McLaren successful play 4 aft switching teams doubly since the amusement premiered successful 2019.  

When it comes to the upcoming 2023 season, however, Ricciardo volition not beryllium connected the grid aft losing his spot to rookie operator Oscar Piastri, which means viewers apt won't spot him successful play six (though helium is serving arsenic Red Bull's reserve driver). 

'Without Daniel I deliberation determination astir apt wouldn't person been a Drive to Survive," the show's enforcement shaper Paul Martin told The Post astir Ricciardo's position. "'He was the archetypal operator that we talked to astir it, the archetypal operator that invited america to his location successful Australia. I felt precise affectional with him leaving."

Driver For: Scuderia AlphaTauri
Age: 27
Instagram Followers: 3.8 million
Relationship Status: He is reportedly dating Portuguese exemplary Francisca Cerqueira Gomes aft his breakup with Katerina Berezhna past year. 
Need to Know Facts: Gasly has flooded respective setbacks—including being dropped mid-season by Red Bull successful 2019—and tragedies, particularly the decease of his adjacent puerility person Anthoine Hubert, who was killed successful a clang during an F2 contention the aforesaid year.

In March 2021, Gasly penned an unfastened letter about the impact Hubert's decease had connected him for the Players' Tribune, and opened up astir the value of intelligence wellness for athletes successful a caller interrogation with The Guardian.  

"People conflict to recognize that we besides consciousness emotions, we besides person our ups and downs," helium said. "It doesn't substance if you are palmy oregon not, we saw it with Naomi [Osaka] successful the tennis with the intelligence wellness issues. People extracurricular spot you arsenic a operator and presume that is the lone happening that goes done your caput but you person a idiosyncratic life, feelings and emotions."

After spending 2 seasons astatine AlphaTauri, Gasly is acceptable to contention for Alpine successful 2023.

Driver For: Red Bull
Age: 33
Instagram Followers: 5.3 million
Relationship Status: He joined Carola Martinez successful 2018 and the mates have three children.
Need to Know Facts: In 2020, helium broke the grounds for astir starts earlier a contention triumph erstwhile helium took archetypal spot astatine the Sakhir Grand Prix. 

Nicknamed "Checo," Pérez is an avid golfer, breaking retired his clubs doubly a week during the off-season. He launched The Checo Pérez Foundation, a foundation that supports orphans and children with cancer, in his hometown of Guadalajara successful 2012.

Driver For: Alpine
Age: 41
Instagram Followers: 4 million
Relationship Status: In a narration with Italian exemplary Linda Morselli.
Need to Know Facts: Considered 1 of the sport's top drivers with 2 World Driver's Championships, helium came retired of status for the 2021 season. And Alonso, the oldest operator connected the grid, made headlines erstwhile helium announced helium would beryllium leaving Alpine to spell to Aston Martin successful 2023. 

"It was due to the fact that of the tendency I saw connected the portion of Aston Martin to person me," Alonso explained to DAZN. "Perhaps that was missing with Alpine oregon the signs of affection that possibly I did not person here."

Driver For: Williams
Age: 26
Instagram Followers: 1.8 million
Relationship Status: In a narration with professional golfer Lily Muni.
Need to Know Facts: After a lackluster play astatine Red Bull successful 2020, Albon recovered himself astatine Williams successful 2022, which proved to beryllium the close acceptable and resulted successful a multi-year woody for the driver.

In a caller interrogation with GQ Sports, Albon revealed helium has a Chipotle personage card, which gets him escaped burritos. "What did I bash to merit this? I don't know," helium admitted. "I'm conscionable precise privileged."

Driver For: Alfa Romeo
Age: 23 
Instagram Followers: 776,000
Relationship Status: Unknown
Need to Know Facts: Guanya made his debut connected the grid successful 2022, helium is the archetypal Chinese operator to vie successful Formula One. He's landed large endorsement deals with HSBC and Dior, with Guanya opening up astir his involvement successful fashion.

"Formula 1 is simply a large platform, particularly erstwhile you're walking down to the way wearing your ain clothes," helium told Hypebeast. "I don't person a stylist; I conscionable prime what I similar from my wardrobe. It's large that radical tin spot a antithetic broadside of me, and I deliberation radical truly admit what I'm doing."

Driver For: Alpine
Age: 26
Instagram Followers: 1.4 million
Relationship Status: In a narration with influencer and exemplary Elena Berri.
Need to Know Facts: While galore drivers travel from affluent backgrounds, Ocon's household sold their location and lived successful a caravan successful bid to money his aboriginal career. 

"It was not an enjoyable time," helium admitted to ESPN successful 2019. "It was portion of my beingness wherever my parents sacrificed massively and if I didn't execute it was over. I had a batch of unit connected my shoulders and I besides had large responsibilities for my family, due to the fact that if I did not execute we were going to beryllium successful trouble.

The sacrifice yet paid off, with Ocon winning his archetypal Formula One contention successful August 2021, beating his longtime rival Max Verstappen. 

Driver For: Aston Martin
Age: 34
Instagram Followers: 2.6 million
Relationship Status: Married to Hanna Prater since 2019, the mates person 3 children.
Need to Know Fact: When helium was 23, Vettel became the the youngest idiosyncratic to triumph the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, going connected to nab 3 much titles. The German jock was the lone F1 operator who is not connected societal media, until helium joined it successful July 2022 to denote his retirement. 

"Next to racing, I person grown a household who I emotion being around. I've grown different interests extracurricular of Formula One," Vettel said. "My passionateness with racing and Formula One comes with tons of clip spent distant from them, and takes a batch of energy. My goals person shifted from winning races and warring for championships to spot my children grow, passing connected my values, helping them up erstwhile they fall, listening to them erstwhile they request me."

His spot astatine Aston Martin was filled by Fernando Alonso for the 2023 grid.

Driver For: Haas
Age: 23
Instagram Followers: 3.4 million
Relationship Status: Reportedly dating Justine Huysman.
Need to Know Facts: The lad of seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher, he started his racing vocation nether the pseudonym "Mick Betsch" to debar drafting attraction due to the fact that of his father.

While helium drove for Haas successful the 2022 season, Schumacher lost his spot connected the grid to Nico Hulkenberg, who is returning to F1 aft a three-year hiatus.

"It was astatine times bumpy but I steadily improved, learned a batch and present cognize for definite that I merit a spot successful Formula One," Schumacher wrote connected societal media. "The taxable is thing but closed for me. Setbacks lone marque you stronger. My occurrence burns for Formula One and I volition combat hard to instrumentality to the starting grid."

For the 2023 season, Schumacher volition service arsenic McLaren's reserve driver.

Driver For: Williams 
Age: 27
Instagram Followers: 632,000
Relationship Status: In a narration with exemplary and lawyer Sandra Dziwiszek.
Need to Know Facts: Latifi's billionaire begetter Michael Latifi has invested astir $272 cardinal successful the McLaren group, portion antecedently investing $36 cardinal into Williams, which his institution besides sponsors. Some of Latifi's popular civilization faves see Drake, Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame and The Last Dance. And portion helium drives professionally, helium revealed that helium doesn't ain a car.

For the 2023 season, Latifi volition nary longer beryllium connected the grid, with American driver Logan Sargeant taking his seat.

It's been the champion journey," helium wrote connected Instagram past November, "and I person an immense magnitude of gratitude for everyone who has been a portion of this."