Seven themes to watch for the rest of F1 2024
Formula 1 is currently on its mid-season hiatus in the summer shutdown, but the 2024 championship is actually fairly far past its halfway point. When the action resumes at Zandvoort there will be 10 races left – so here are the top storylines to follow through the campaign run in
Every Formula 1 season is packed with narratives – but 2024 has exploded in some rather unexpected ways.
It began with Lewis Hamilton deciding to swap Mercedes for Ferrari in 2025, then carried on via the Christian Horner behaviour scandal and Red Bull management war, into the campaign getting the most different race winners in over a decade. That was after Max Verstappen had utterly dominated the opening seven races.
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Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.
A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.
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