Magnussen loses Haas drive for 2025

The US-based Haas squad person decided to driblet Kevin Magnussen for nan 2025 Formula 1 season.

The team's announcement of Magnussen's departure does not uncover who will switch him arsenic nan team-mate of Briton Oliver Bearman adjacent season.

However, BBC Sport has been told that Esteban Ocon, who races for Alpine this season, will return nan drive.

The accusation comes from sources adjacent to Haas and Mercedes, who negociate nan Frenchman's career.

The determination intends Haas will person an all-new F1 line-up adjacent year. Magnussen's existent team-mate Nico Hulkenberg is moving to nan Sauber squad arsenic it morphs into Audi successful clip for nan German company's charismatic F1 introduction successful 2026.

Magnussen raced for Haas from 2017 until 2020, and was re-signed earlier nan 2022 play aft they dropped nan Russian Nikita Mazepin pursuing nan country's penetration of Ukraine.

His champion consequence for nan squad is fifth, which he has achieved 3 times. His highest title decorativeness for them was successful 2018, erstwhile he was ninth. His profession champion consequence is nan 2nd spot he scored connected his F1 debut for McLaren astatine nan 2014 Australian Grand Prix.

Haas squad main Ayao Komatsu said: "Kevin has genuinely been a bedrock of our driver line-up complete nan years.

"Nobody's driven much races for america and we’ve had immoderate memorable highlights together – not slightest a fifth-place decorativeness astatine nan Bahrain Grand Prix successful 2022 erstwhile Kevin returned to commencement his 2nd spell pinch nan team.

"He wasn't expecting to beryllium driving a Formula 1 car that weekend, but he put successful a singular capacity that was a tremendous boost to nan full organisation and erstwhile again showcased his ain talents down nan wheel."

Komatsu added: "I'm hoping we tin find a measurement to support moving together successful immoderate capacity. We tin hopefully specify that successful nan adjacent future, but his extended acquisition successful F1 and knowledge of our moving operations are undoubtedly of worth successful our ongoing maturation and development."

Magnussen, whose early connected nan F1 grid is successful uncertainty pinch only constricted options still disposable for adjacent season, said: “I’m proud to person raced for specified a awesome squad of group these past fewer years.

"In peculiar I'd for illustration to convey [owner] Gene Haas for his committedness to me, notably successful bringing maine backmost erstwhile again successful 2022 erstwhile I thought, astatine that clip astatine least, my clip successful F1 had ended. I've enjoyed immoderate awesome moments pinch this squad – memories I'll ne'er forget."

Haas person extended their motor proviso statement pinch Ferrari until nan extremity of nan 2028 season.

The squad are besides said to beryllium successful talks pinch car elephantine Toyota astir a business from adjacent season.

Insiders opportunity they are negotiating a woody whereby Toyota would person marque vulnerability connected nan car successful return for engineering support.

Haas would use from entree to nan Japanese company’s immense resources while Toyota would person a measurement of introducing its engineers and racing drivers to F1.

Haas presently has a mini UK guidelines successful Banbury and engineers embedded successful nan Ferrari mill utilizing its facilities, while its car is built by Italian constructor Dallara.

It is readying to move into a caller mill arsenic it seeks to amended its capacity successful early years. Haas and Komatsu were fixed a circuit of nan Mercedes mill successful Brackley earlier this period arsenic portion of a fact-finding ngo arsenic they scheme their caller UK base.

Haas declined to remark connected nan taxable of Toyota.