Your Ultimate Guide to The 2024 F1 Season

Intro 10 teams 20 drivers 24 Grand Prix 20,000 horsepower but only one goal to win Formula 1 is go this is the 2024 Formula 1 season the best drivers in the fastest cars are poised and ready to go racing Formula 1 truly is a world championship What's New? a global spectacle spanning 20 countries and five continents and this season boasts a record-breaking 24 race calendar this year sees three Saturday races starting with the season opener in Bahrain along with Saudi Arabia and Las Vegas alongside classic tracks and daring Street circuits there's also a return to Shanghai with the Chinese Grand Prix back on the calendar and this season Shanghai will host one of six Sprint events along with Miami Austria Austin sa Pao and Qatar and the drivers will compete for victory and a 100 km Dash as well as the main Grand [Music] Prix and to seven events fans will be treated to more track action with the F1 Academy Season running from Saudi Arabia to Abu Dhabi from the 15 entrance this season 10 will be supported by Formula 1 teams and run their liveries when the lights go out in Bahrain Red Bull and Max V stappen will be aiming to pick up where they left off last year after a simply lovely not to mention record-breaking 2023 when they dominated on a scale never seen before in the sport Red Bull won all but one Grand Prix last season with vapen taking a record 19 victories on his way to the driver's title such dominance won't be easy to repeat but team and driver will be giving it their all to stay on the top step for the first time in F1 history Drivers every single team has stuck with the same driver lineup from last year that means last season's rookies Logan sergeant and Oscar pastri will get another opportunity to impress and Joe guwen Yu will finally get the chance to become the first Chinese driver to race in his home Grand Prix while there were no changes in the driver Market heading into 2024 there have already been some Sensational moves for next year including Ferrari's stunning swoop for Lewis Hamilton in a shock move the seven time World Champ will call time on his Mercedes family at the end of this season to join Charles lur in in red leaving Carlos signs on the hunt for a new team elsewhere Max ven is signed up with Red Bull until 2028 but the pressure is on for teammate Sergio Perez whose deal is due to expire at the end of 2024 he needs to prove he's got what it takes to keep hold of one of the most coveted seats in the sport but with signs Alex albon Fernando Alonzo and the pairings that has RB Alpine and Ki Salva all currently out of contract at the end of the year and Hamilton's Mercedes seat now up for grabs expect plenty more moves in the F1 game of musical chairs as the drivers jostle for the best seats on the grid it might be a case of New Year same Team Changes drivers but there are still some big changes in The Paddock two teams have a brand new identity and two have new bosses running things from the pit War Alpha Romeo have transformed into kick Sala while Alpha toy will be known as RB and have a new face at the helm with former Ferrari man Lauren mechy replacing retired France TOS H also have a new boss with Netflix fan favorite Gunter Steiner having left the American outfit over the winter to be replaced by the team's former engineering director AO katsu those three teams finished bottom of the pile last year so plenty of work to do for the new team Chiefs with a major regulations reset coming in Rule Changes 2026 things are relatively stable this year but there are some rule tweaks being brought in Sprint qualifying moves from Saturday to Friday following an initial free practice session for tracker climatization and setup work the 100 km Sprint will then take place on Saturday ahead of qualifying for the Grand Prix later that day and look out also for new driver cooling Scoops which will be bigger and more effec effective this season to combat drivers overheating at some of the hotter races on the calendar so Red Bull go into the new The Team to Beat season as the team to beat but with every other F1 team working Round the Clock to try and knock them off their Championship Purge who's best placed to topple the mighty Bulls this time last year McLaren were in trouble they got their car wrong and admitted they missed their targets in testing but a mid-season upgrade catapulted them up the order and in the second half of the Year Norris and piastri were often Red Bull's closest Challengers time will tell if they turn that promise into race-winning reality and what a Ferrari it remains to be seen if their 2024 car concept will deliver the pace needed to break their long Championship drought and with boss Fred fur now a year into the job the toosi will start to get impatient if real progress isn't evident from the Scarlet cars this year with Carla signs being their only winner of last season Mercedes won eight Constructor titles Contenders but they dropped the ball with their last two challenges boss Toto wolf is already cautiously optimistic that they've made a course correction this year and Hamilton himself would dearly love to sign off his decade long Mercedes stint by clenching that record eighth World title before he leaves for Ferrari Aston Martin are perhaps the most ambitious team in the pit Lane with owner Lawrence stroll investing millions in Recruitment and infrastructure in a bid to join the Front Runners last year they came tearing out of the blocks with Fernando Alonzo scoring six podiums in the first eight races but they saw a significant drop off in the second half of the year with McLaren jumping up the ranks Aston Martin will be Keen to keep in step it would probably be too much to expect Williams to be challenging for podiums in 2024 but the stored British team were undoubtedly on the up last year team boss James vs insists he's geared towards reshaping the team to continue to finish higher than their honorable p7 finish in 2023 they all want to win they all yearn for Glory they all dream of being the fastest but there can only be one winner the wait is over it's time for lights [Music] out am