Formula 1: Mercedes Formula 1 driver George Russell has lost his Belgian Grand Prix win after his car was found to be underweight.
What looked set to be another Red Bull Racing whitewash after the first five races of the campaign has opened up into a four-team fight for wins.
It’s therefore been a more impressive campaign by the title-winning team than it perhaps looks. Its domination in the first five rounds allowed it to build solid foundations for another championship, particularly given McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari have been taking points off each other since catching up.
The team can be forgiven for many of its mistakes for simply being green. We’re more than a decade on since McLaren’s last title tilt. Staff turnover means there’s little institutional experience of the associated pressures.It’s okay to feel simultaneously optimistic and exasperated by Ferrari’s progress this year.
And worst of all are the races subsequently lost to longshot strategies and other fumbles, leading Leclerc to lament a four-race run in which he scored just once as “worse than a nightmare”. The German marque is on what could be called the McLaren trajectory pioneered last season. While it’s not coming from as far back, its rate of improvement is similar, having rocketed to three of the last four victories before the break, an inconceivable notion only a few months ago.
No team is moving backwards faster than Aston Martin. While several teams are struggling with update packages, Silverstone has been doing so consistently since the middle of 2023. But the renaissance was halted in Spain, where RB suffered one of the year’s more serious episodes of the ‘downgrade’ phenomenon, whereby the success rate for upgrade packages is unusually low.
So when Haas started the year solidly in the midfield and with clear scope for progression, it looked both impressive and validating of the management change. “The objective is to reach a level of competitiveness that places us on the podium as many times as possible in 2024,” then CEO Laurent Rossi told the F1 website at the time.The team finished fifth the year it made that lofty prediction. It’s now down to eighth, having only recently hauled itself off the bottom of the table.
But there was logic to Williams’s botched start. Team principal James Vowles explained that the team needed to rapidly modernise its processes and procedures to have any hope of being competitive in the future but that he’d just about bitten off more than he could chew in a single off-season.Like Alpine, as the weight has come off, the car has improved, and Alex Albon has nailed the team’s few chances for points, but rising above ninth place looks desperately unlikely.
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