We're down to 22 cars for next season HRT are gone

The FIA has announced the full 2013 Formula 1 World Championship entry list, reduced to 22 cars following the demise of HRT.

Although several driver names are still 'tba' on the list - believed to be because teams have yet to allocate numbers to each driver - the only remaining vacancies are at Lotus, which is yet to confirm that Romain Grosjean will stay, Force India, Caterham and Marussia.

Paul di Resta is expected to keep one Force India drive, while Marussia will retain Timo Glock and is expected to add Max Chilton.

Sauber has signed Nico Hulkenberg and Esteban Gutierrez. Caterham has one vacancy but has confirmed Charles Pic. Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne stay on at Toro Rosso.

Of the drivers moving teams, McLaren signing Sergio Perez takes #6 behind Jenson Button, and Lewis Hamilton gets #10 at Mercedes.
No. Driver Full team name Chassis/Engine
1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing Red Bull-Renault
2 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing Red Bull-Renault
3 Fernando Alonso Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari
4 Felipe Massa Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari
5 Jenson Button Vodafone McLaren Mercedes McLaren-Mercedes
6 Sergio Perez Vodafone McLaren Mercedes McLaren-Mercedes
7 Kimi Raikkonen Lotus F1 Team Lotus-Renault
8 tba Lotus F1 Team Lotus-Renault
9 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team Mercedes
10 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team Mercedes
11 tba Sauber F1 Team Sauber-Ferrari
12 tba Sauber F1 Team Sauber-Ferrari
14 tba Sahara Force India F1 Team Force India-Mercedes
15 tba Sahara Force India F1 Team Force India-Mercedes
16 Pastor Maldonado Williams F1 Team Williams-Renault
17 Valtteri Bottas Williams F1 Team Williams-Renault
18 tba Scuderia Toro Rosso Toro Rosso-Ferrari
19 tba Scuderia Toro Rosso Toro Rosso-Ferrari
20 tba Caterham F1 Team Caterham-Renault
21 tba Caterham F1 Team Caterham-Renault
22 tba Marussia F1 Team Marussia-Cosworth
23 tba Marussia F1 Team Marussia-Cosworth

Source:Autosport.com

Don't mean to be pedantic but it should be Verizon Mclaren Mercedes

HRT are gone, Karthikeyan is gone........Thankgod.

I've never been able to take their name seriously anyway.

Can't say I'm sorry to see them go. I just hope Marussia and Caterham can make big leaps in development and start mixing it up with Toro Rosso and Williams. I'd hate for either to become the "new HRT".

Funny, I never noticed until now that there is no number 13 car. Driver / team superstition or tradition?

They used it until the 1920's until a team had 2 fatal incidents inside a year at the same team so dropped it altogether. Although has been used 3 times since then but neither were very successful 2 didn't qualify and 1 retired but finished 11th

Also what your notice is that a Japanese driver will never use the no.4

I can't see Marussia making a step forward after losing that battle with Caterham. Lost a whole heap of money and I'm sure there will be alot of negativity surrounding that team over the winter amongst it's workforce.

Shame really because Caterham have shown nothing in terms of performance gain over the last two years with a bigger budget. I'm just glad Karthikeyan is gone, simply an embarrasing driver who simply can't understand what a mirror is used for.

Fernando wrote:They used it until the 1920's until a team had 2 fatal incidents inside a year at the same team so dropped it altogether. Although has been used 3 times since then but neither were very successful 2 didn't qualify and 1 retired but finished 11th

Also what your notice is that a Japanese driver will never use the no.4

Sato did at BAR for a year.

Dave. wrote:

Fernando wrote:They used it until the 1920's until a team had 2 fatal incidents inside a year at the same team so dropped it altogether. Although has been used 3 times since then but neither were very successful 2 didn't qualify and 1 retired but finished 11th

Also what your notice is that a Japanese driver will never use the no.4

Sato did at BAR for a year.

Good point He was always a bit of a strange one though Sato and that wasn't a very good year for Takuma until near the end of season

So, is 4 considered unlucky for the Japanese?

I loved Sato, what a legend. Nearly won Indy this year too......

On the losing of another team Bernie (Ecclestone) the warmer seemed happy enough claiming there are too many teams as it is. He just changes like the wind and was saying more teams were needed two or three years ago when the new teams came into being around that time. Seems obvious Bernie doesn't know what he is talking about.