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🏎️ Car Launch Dates by Team

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Jordan Williams
January 09, 2024

In this week’s email:

  • Car Launch Dates by team 🏎️

  • 2024 Reserve Drivers 🛞

  • F1 Drivers Numbers 2024 #️⃣

Car Launch Dates 🏎️

Over the upcoming weeks, teams plan to reveal their 2024 cars prior to the March 2nd start date to the season. Below are the teams that have launch dates confirmed and those that still need to be confirmed: :

Confirmed:

  • Williams: February 5th

  • Sauber: February 5th

  • Aston Martin: February 12th

  • Ferrari: February 13th

Teams still to be confirmed:

  • Reb Bull

  • Mercedes

  • McLaren

  • Alpine

  • Haas

  • AlphaTauri

2024 F1 reserve drivers 🛞

Confirmed:

  • Alfa Romeo: Theo Pourchaire

  • AlphaTauri: Liam Lawson

  • Aston Martin: Felipe Drugovich

  • McLaren: Ryo Hirakawa, Pato O’Ward

  • Mercedes: Mick Schumacher

Teams still to be confirmed:

  • Alpine

  • Ferrari

  • Haas

  • Red Bull

  • Williams

Some teams including McLaren have decided to sign new backup drivers. Le Mans winner Ryo Hirakawa and IndyCar driver Pato O’Ward for the upcoming season.

F1 Drivers Numbers 2024 #️⃣

The only number that can’t be used in F1 is #17 who was last used by Jules Bianchi at the time of his accident in Suzuka in 2014.

  • Max Verstappen - #1

  • Logan Sargeant - #2

  • Daniel Ricciardo - #3

  • Lando Norris - #4

  • Pierre Gasly - #10

  • Sergio Perez - #11

  • Fernando Alonso - #14

  • Charles Leclerc - #16

  • Lance Stroll - #18

  • Kevin Magnussen - #20

  • Yuki Tsunoda - #22

  • Alex Albon - #23

  • Zhou Guanyu - #24

  • Niko Hülkenberg - #27

  • Esteban Ocon - #31

  • Lewis Hamilton - #44

  • Carlos Sainz - #55

  • George Russell - #63

  • Valterri Bottas - #77

  • Oscar Piastri - #81

Below are a few drivers reason as to why they chose their driver number:

Pierre Gasly - Won the 2013 Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup with the number 10. Also is a big fan of footballer Zinedine Zidane who played with the number 10 for the French team.

Fernando Alonso - At the age of 14, he became a world champion in karting with #14. “From that moment I knew #14 was my number,” he said.

Zhou Guanyu - He chose his number as a tribute to the basketball legend Kobe Bryant.