The 2024 season has been nothing if not a giver. A red-hot slice of driver market news here, some cloak-in-dagger team personnel changes there – to say nothing of the seven different winners in 14 races, the most in a season since 2012. An F1 website editor’s dream, in short.
So with half the year in the bank and the F1 drivers all hanging out with Salt Bae in Mykonos – or whatever they get up to these days for the summer holidays – let’s comb through the five storylines that have sent our jaws to the floor so far in 2024.
Hamilton sees red
‘Lewis Hamilton to Ferrari’ has been such a frequent rumour over the years that it’s become a bit of a ‘boy who cried wolf’ situation for everyone in the F1 media when it’s doing the rounds. As such, when the rumour rolled around this year, I jadedly treated it with the usual degree of wariness/weariness that I give it every year. That is, until it became clear that this year, THIS WAS NOT A DRILL!
With a certain degree of inevitability, details started trickling their way into the media, before the shock official news came that, yes, finally, Hamilton in red was set to become a reality.
It’s a decision that, as with seemingly everything associated with Sir Lewis, has proven contentious, inviting all manner of debate around whether people think it’s a good move or not – with Hamilton set to join only the third team of his illustrious career.
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Whatever your opinion though, seeing #44 on those red haunches next year is going to be something else…