To say that the 2024 season has been action-packed could be one thing of an understatement; from enormous information tales breaking off the observe to some more and more shut battles on it, there have been loads of speaking factors all year long. With a lot happening, it’s simple to neglect a number of the occasions that occurred through the 24-race marketing campaign – however concern not, we’ve got rounded up a number of huge moments that you simply might need forgotten from 2024, together with intra-team fallouts, an uncommon merchandise left on a automotive and the Security Automotive’s lengthy absence…
Tensions boil over between Ricciardo and Tsunoda
The RB group have been by no means distant from the headlines in 2024 – what with the continued hypothesis over their driver line-up – nevertheless it was an incident on the season-opener in Bahrain that first received everybody speaking in regards to the squad.
Within the latter phases of the race, Yuki Tsunoda was instructed by the group to let Daniel Ricciardo by, with the intention being for the Australian – sporting the comfortable compound in distinction to the exhausting tyres on Tsunoda’s automotive – to attempt to assault Haas’s Kevin Magnussen. After asking in the event that they have been “kidding”, Tsunoda then fulfilled the request.
Ricciardo was in the end unable to move Magnussen however got here dwelling forward of Tsunoda in P13. As soon as the chequered flag fell, a seemingly pissed off Tsunoda appeared to dive-bomb his group mate earlier than then practically taking out the sister RB as he returned to the observe, prompting a baffled Ricciardo to remark: “F***, what the f***? I’ll reserve it.”
The 35-year-old later labelled the incident as “a little bit of immaturity”, whereas Tsunoda acknowledged post-race: “I don’t even wish to speak about it.” Any tensions appeared to have been resolved by Spherical 2 in Saudia Arabia, nevertheless it seemingly marked the beginning of what could be a troublesome marketing campaign forward for Ricciardo…
