The 2024 season has been nothing if not a giver. A red-hot slice of driver market information right here, some cloak-in-dagger group personnel adjustments there – to say nothing of the seven totally different winners in 14 races, probably the most in a season since 2012. An F1 web site editor’s dream, briefly.
So with half the yr within the financial institution and the F1 drivers all hanging out with Salt Bae in Mykonos – or no matter they stand up to today for the summer time holidays – let’s comb via the 5 storylines which have despatched our jaws to the ground up to now in 2024.
Hamilton sees purple
‘Lewis Hamilton to Ferrari’ has been such a frequent hearsay through the years that it’s change into a little bit of a ‘boy who cried wolf’ state of affairs for everybody within the F1 media when it’s doing the rounds. As such, when the hearsay rolled round this yr, I jadedly handled it with the same old diploma of wariness/weariness that I give it yearly. That’s, till it grew to become clear that this yr, THIS WAS NOT A DRILL!
With a sure diploma of inevitability, particulars began trickling their approach into the media, earlier than the shock official information got here that, sure, lastly, Hamilton in purple was set to change into a actuality.
It’s a call that, as with seemingly all the pieces related to Sir Lewis, has confirmed contentious, inviting all method of debate round whether or not individuals suppose it’s transfer or not – with Hamilton set to affix solely the third group of his illustrious profession.
No matter your opinion although, seeing #44 on these purple haunches subsequent yr goes to be one thing else…
