Motorsport Week had several standout highlights that occurred across a riveting 2024 Formula 1 campaign in a season that will be remembered for quite some time.
Motorsport Week’s writers have charted their favourite moments of the 2024 F1 season with Grand Prix Editor Phil Horton finding it hard to pick just one.
“There’s several moments of the year for me – not surprising given there’s been 24 grands prix. They include (deep breath), Max Verstappen’s drive-for-the-ages in the rain of Brazil, Charles Leclerc’s emotional Monaco (and Monza) win when he was faultless all weekend, Lando Norris’ breakthrough in Miami, Carlos Sainz’s brilliant post-appendicitis victory in Australia (when we feared it’d be another Max walkover year), Ollie Bearman’s stand-in displays, the sad farewell of Daniel Ricciardo in Singapore, Zhou Guanyu’s homecoming in China… quite a year, and there’s many more too.
“But one moment that is really etched in the memory is Lewis Hamilton’s triumph at Silverstone. We knew pre-season it was his final year with Mercedes and it looked like being a miserable slog full of lowly points-paying positions: an eighth here, a ninth there.
“But at Silverstone Hamilton – aided by a resurgent Mercedes – was electric, and while the stars aligned in his favour he seized control of the race to take a win that everyone applauded. Having gone so long without a win, and to have endured the self-doubt over his ability approaching his fifth decade, it was little wonder that Hamilton was overcome with emotion post-race.”
F1 2024 competition will continue next year
The 2024 F1 season has been one of the most competitive in recent memory and it’s no wonder why its hard to pin down a single favourite moment of the year.
F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said in August that he expects the series’ close competition to continue in 2025.
Domenicali told Motorsport.com: “I’m very pleased to say what I said at the beginning of the year is exactly what is happening, when everyone was believing that I was saying that for political reasons.
“This will for sure continue until the end of 2025.
“This element of sporting action, and sporting drama, is definitely there.”
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