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[WonderWoman61]

Surprised no one else had remembered that until now.

[WonderWoman61]

Also in 1995, Max Papis replaced Gianni Morbidelli at Arrows for 7 races, then Morbidelli replaced Papis for the last 3 races.

[messy]

It’s a shame Papis didn’t replace Inoue really given how much faster Morbidelli was.

DeLaRosa replaced Heidfeld at Sauber for 2010, leaving Heidfeld out of a drive. Heidfeld, I think, was considered a cert for the Mercedes seat that then went to Schumacher instead late in the day. Then mid-way through 2010, DeLaRosa stepped back and was again replaced by Heidfeld, who was then himself replaced for 2011 by Perez, who in turn was replaced by DeLaRosa for the 2011 Canadian GP after getting injured at Monaco.

[WonderWoman61]

Again in 1995:

Karl Wendlinger (first 4 races), then Jean-Christophe Boullion (11 races), then back to Wendlinger (last 2 races) at Sauber.

[WonderWoman61]

Benetton in 1994 until Johnny Herbert rejoined them.

[WonderWoman61]

Heinz-Harald Frentzen replaced Felipe Massa at Sauber for 2003 then Massa replaced Frentzen at Sauber for 2004.

[WonderWoman61]

Giancarlo Fisichella was replaced by Tarso Marques at Minardi for the South American races in 1996 then Fisichella regained his seat until Giovanni Lavaggi replaced him for the last 6 races.

[IrvTheSwerve]

Heinz-Harald Frentzen replaced Felipe Massa at Sauber for 2003 then Massa replaced Frentzen at Sauber for 2004.

I totally forgot that Massa had a year out in 2003.

[WonderWoman61]

I totally forgot that Massa had a year out in 2003.

We all make mistakes.

[WonderWoman61]

Can't believe this has been overlooked:

In 1990, Alain Prost replaced Gerhard Berger at Ferrari, Berger replaced Prost at McLaren.

[WonderWoman61]

Midway through 2019, Alexander Albon replaced Pierre Gasly at Red Bull, Gasly replaced Albon at Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri

[WonderWoman61]

Jean Alesi sharing his Tyrrell seat with Johnny Herbert due to F3000 commitments in 1989.

Johnny Herbert losing his Lotus seat to Julian Bailey for the first 4 rounds of 1991 then regaining it then sharing with Michael Bartels over the course of the remaining 12 races.

[noikeee]

Surely most of those 90s examples are drivers that bought a seat but only had the budget for a certain amount of races. When the contract runs out, the regular driver returns.

[EvilPhil II]

Brundle and Alliot McLaren 1994

[WonderWoman61]

The seat-sharing between David Coulthard and Nigel Mansell at Williams in 1994 after Ayrton Senna died.

[NewMrMe]

This does require a little bit of spin to make it work, but there is an example where it could be argued that two drivers each replaced each other twice.

 

On this thread I did previously site Alain Prost and Patrick Tambay. Prost replaced Tambay at McLaren for 1980 and then Tambay replaced Prost at Renault for 1984. For 1984 Renault had a completely new driver line up with Tambay and Derek Warwick replacing Prost and Eddie Cheever. Going by car numbers Tambay replaced Prost and Warwick Cheever, but if you can twist it to argue Tambay replaced Cheever you then get this double replacement scenario.

 

Cheever had previously replaced Tambay, taking Patrick's drive when he joined Ligier for 1982. Later in 1986, Tambay would injure his legs in an accident during the sunday morning warm up for the Canadian Grand Prix. Cheever would then stand in for Tambay at the next race in Detroit.

[WonderWoman61]

Some more.
 
1980 Alain Prost replaced Patrick Tambay at McLaren
1984 Patrick Tambay replaced Alain Prost at Renault
 
1993 Alex Zanardi injured in a practice accident at Spa. Replaced by Pedro Lamy.
1994 Pedro Lamy injured in a testing accident at Silverstone. Replaced by Alex Zanardi.

Then Zanardi had to share his seat with Philippe Adams for a couple of races.

[PayasYouRace]

You know the OP had a very specific idea in mind and now it seems it’s just everyone naming drivers who shared or swapped seats at some point.

2015 - Vettel replaced Alonso at Ferrari
2023 - Alonso replaces Vettel at Aston Martin

Is there any other case in history that this weird thing happened? Not counting driver swaps like the Red Bull teams did

[PayasYouRace]

Brundle and Alliot McLaren 1994

Alliot subbed for Hakkinen while the Finn was sitting out his race ban.

[WonderWoman61]

You know the OP had a very specific idea in mind and now it seems it’s just everyone naming drivers who shared or swapped seats at some point.

I was starting to feel that way myself.