F1 23: What Drivers and Teams are Featured in the Game?

Which drivers await you in the F1 game that will be released in 2023? Also, how do these drivers get their cockpits in the first place? You can find out all that in this post.

In career mode you can start directly in Formula 1, then you can choose one of these teams and one of these drivers as teammates:

Formula 1 2023 Teams and Drivers

Red Bull: Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez
Ferrari: Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz
Mercedes: Lewis Hamilton, George Russel
Alpine: Esteban Ocon, Pierre Gasly
McLaren: Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri
Alfa Romeo: Valtteri Bottas, Guanyu Zhou
Aston Martin: Fernando Alonso, Lance Stroll
Haas: Kevin Magnussen, Nico Hulkenberg
AlphaTauri: Yuki Tsunoda, Nyck de Vries
Williams: Alex Albon, Logan Sargeant

Additional Drivers in the F1 23 Champions Edition

Devon Butler (Braking Point 2)
Aiden Jackson (Braking Point 2)
Callie Mayer (Braking Point 2)
Casper Akkerman (Braking Point 2)
Nigel Mansell (World Champion 1992)
Jamie Chadwick
Pastor Maldonado
Kamui Kobayashi

Career Start in Formula 2

In career mode in F1 2023 you can probably start again as an F1 candidate in the "Formula 2" feeder series. In the following season you start as a rookie in Formula 1. In Formula 2 you will meet the following teams and drivers of the 2022 F2 season:

Formula 2 2022 Teams and Drivers

Prema Racing: Dennis Hauger, Jehan Daruvala
Virtuosi Racing: Jack Doohan, Marino Sato
Carlin: Liam Lawson, Logan Sargeant
Hitech Grand Prix: Marcus Armstrong, Jüri Vips
ART Grand Prix: Theo Pourchaire, Frederik Vesti
MP Motorsport: Felipe Drugovich, Clement Novalak
Campos Racing: Olli Caldwell, Ralph Boschung
DAMS: Roy Nissany, Ayumu Iwasa
Trident: Richard Verschoor, Calan Williams
Charouz Racing Systems: Enzo Fittipaldi, Cem Bölükbasi
Van Amersfoort Racing: Jake Hughes, Amaury Cordeel

How do Drivers get Promoted to Formula 1?

How do you become a Formula 1 driver? To become an F1 driver, you first need the super license. First of all, it costs a lot of money:

Basically, the driver's license for Formula 1 (super license) costs €10,000 per season. For drivers who have already driven in F1 for one season, there is an additional cost of 2.000€ per World Championship point achieved (Source: Focus, 2013).

Based on these numbers, the super license for world champion Max Verstappen in 2022 will cost an impressive 801.000€, for Sebastian Vettel still 96.000€ and for George Russel "only" 42.000€. So you see it varies a lot.

Of course, these numbers are outdated. You can expect a much higher cost of the super license nowadays.

Super License Points

Just having a lot of money is not enough to get a cockpit in Formula 1. The super license also requires achieved points in your driving career.

In the last three years, a driver must have collected at least 40 points for his FIA super license in order to be able to apply for it. You can collect many points by finishing high in other racing series. Here I have selected some well-known racing series as examples:

Racing Series	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th (...)
Formula 2	40	40	40	30	20
IndyCar Series	40	30	20	10	8
Formula E	30	25	20	10	8
DTM	15	12	10	7	5
Le Mans Series	10	8	6	4	2

For example, a driver with 1st place in the Le Mans Series (10 points), 4th place in Formula E (10 points) and 5th place in Formula 2 (20 points) can collect enough points to apply for his super license.