2024 F1 General Discussion Thread

Yeah sounds like Tsunoda and Lawson are nailed on for VCARB - at least at the start of the season. I find it hard to imagine that they will change Perez at the start of the season but my suspicion is that they could change him this season after the Mexican GP…..!!

So, according to Kym Illman on Instagram, Haas payed off Urukali this weekend but they need the Dutch courts to stamp the receipt so until then the equipment remains impounded at the track overnight.

Only movement on the standings after yesterday's race…Gasly goes above Bearman, who only had the 1 race, in the second round, back in March, 13 rounds ago.

McLaren reduces the gap to RedBull from 42 points to 30 points.

Norris reduces the gap to Verstappen from 78 points to 70 points.

9 rounds left.

Ahh I’d say Max has the championship in the bag already! Norris could win every race from now until the end of the season and still not catch Max (presuming he finishes 2nd in most of them)!

Drivers championship not over yet. McLaren looks a cut above the rest and Merc and Ferrari both capable of taking points off Red Bull. One or two DNFs for Max and it's game on.

Doesnt matter whose second if its not Max but while I dont see another race win for red bull without some major upgrades, I also dont see Norris winning all 9 remaining races!

9 races left and 3 sprints.

If Norris wins every race and every sprint, with Max finishing second then Norris gets 66 points more than Max. If he also gets the fastest lap in every race that brings him to 75 points more, meaning he wins by 5 points at end of year.

So technically speaking it's still entirely in Lando's control to win the championship, but he obviously needs a bit of help/luck along with way. 1 or 2 DNFs for Max will make things very interesting.

True, I done the maths in my head but didn’t account for fastest laps and completely forgot about the sprints! But I’d still eat my hat if Max didn’t win it this year!

Max winning this championship is like Button when he won his

Think Verstappen will do enough to win title number 4 this season, he might have to wait a bit for number 5..

Norris can't win the championship without at least one DNF for Verstappen.

McLaren have had the fastest car for the majority of the season, bar a couple of races at the start for Red Bull and a few races where Mercedes were fastest (and McLaren were still ahead of Red Bull in those ones), but none of that has stopped Max building a comfortable championship lead.

Even at Zandvoort where McLaren's advantage was probably the largest we've seen from any car since 2020, Max still got ahead of Lando at the start and led for most of the first stint. If Red Bull had better straight line speed he might have been able to hold him behind the way Leclerc could with Piastri. Oscar for his part has outperformed Lando in a number of recent races too so if he can get stuck outside the podium like that in this race, Norris could just as easily in the next one.

I just don't see a scenario where Norris comes out and wins every event to the end of the season. He's not consistent enough. Max will almost certainly manage to grab another win or two as he always gets better starts, he makes fewer mistakes, and Red Bull often make better strategy calls than McLaren. Meanwhile Mercedes will be in the mix for wins too as they've had the fastest car at a number of tracks layouts recently. Even Ferrari may get in there with a car well suited to Singapore.

The championship isn't over, two or three DNFs for Max could turn it around. But I don't see us making it to the end of the season without Norris losing a bunch more races through bad starts or mistakes - after all he's only actually managed to win 2 races all season so far.

McLaren should have the constructor's championship in the bag on the other hand. Perez can't make up the deficit in machinery the way Max can.

Mathematically he can. It won't happen, but if he wins every race, every sprint and gets fastest lap in every race he wins the championship regardless of what Max does.

If RB want to win the constructors, they very much have two drivers to focus on.

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