This might not exist in C (I've never written it), but something like this seems like a fairly clean pattern you could use:

  abstract class BaseDriver {
    abstract commonThing()
  }

  abstract class BaseDriverV1 extends BaseDriver {
    commonThing() {
      console.log('This is the common method implementation for all V1 drivers')
    }

    abstract doThingOnlyV1Does() 
  }

  class DriverV1_1 extends BaseDriverV1 {
    doThingOnlyV1Does() {
      console.log('This is how Driver V1.1 does the V1 thing')
    }
  }

This way you can use either an interface or an "abstract" definition that declares the base driver methods and the versioned driver methods, then provide version-dependent implementations where needed, or else share the common implementations by inheritance/extension.

Maybe this turns into spaghetti at scale and it actually is easier to just copy-paste all of it, who knows.