Function/Formula based autocorrection or replacing values based on a table (undiscribable)

Good day,

I am struggling with setting up a pool/stake/competition sheet for me and my friends for this season's Formula 1.
I've worked out a lot of my initial problems thanks to this great forum, but I find it hard to describe the problem I am stuck on right now and have been unable to find a useful solution from the posts that exist. My apologies if this has been explained somewhere, I simply can't translate my question well.

In my sheet I've made a table of all the drivers, their cars, abbreviations and full names. What I would like is that when I type the abbreviation of a driver in other parts of the sheet (for example the race results), that these abbreviations are transformed into the full surname of the driver.

For example last race in China the result was:

1. ALO
2. RAI
3. HAM

These abbreviations would then be changed in the full surnames Alonso, Räikkönen and Hamilton where I've typed them in.
Of course, auto-correction helps greatly - but my friends Excel isn't set up the way mine is, so they can't fill it in when I use auto-correction. I need it to be in the sheet itself.

Picture of the table I managed to make is in the attachment.

Any help is greatly appreciated!