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Musical chairs: the 2019 driver line-up takes shape

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Ferrari

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Sebastian Vettel
Having signed a new multi-year deal to stay at Ferrari until 2020, Sebastian Vettel's medium-term future is secure. After an initial wobble in his relationship with the scuderia, the four-time champion is now completely embedded at Maranello and the team is centred around him.

POSSIBLE

Kimi Raikkonen
Every year it looks like Kimi Raikkonen has reached the end of the road at Ferrari, but the Iceman has continued to prove the great survivor. This looked certain to be his last year at Maranello, but recent events - including the passing of team president Sergio Marchionne - has tipped things back in the Finn's favour as the squad looks for a period of stability and status quo.

Charles Leclerc
Charles Leclerc is Raikkonen's biggest rival for the 2019 race seat. However, Ferrari have a long tradition of being disinclined to dip into the rookie driver gene pool, preferring their talent to come a little more matured. Some wobbly mid-season performances from the youngster might have served as a reminder as to why that's the case.

Antonio Giovinazzi
At work for the team as recently as this week's in-season test at the Hungaroring, Ferrari's development driver Antonio Giovinazzi is an outside chance for the role. He's had two Grand Prix outings already with Sauber, but it's hard to see that he's made the sort of impression that would win him a full-time role with one of F1's biggest teams.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.