Method 1 2024: Vote on the most effective moments of the 2024 F1 season after Max Verstappen and McLaren claimed titles

After an exhilarating 2024 Method 1 season, Sky Sports activities‘ digital F1 journalists have chosen their favorite moments so that you can vote on.

Together with the acquainted faces you noticed all through the season on Sky Sports activities F1‘s award-winning tv protection, a member of the digital crew was in tow pacing the paddock to convey you all the most effective tales through the Sky Sports activities web site and app.

It was an amazing season to comply with with F1, with seven totally different race-winners from 4 totally different groups making a massively unpredictable 12 months of motion.

Max Verstappen was in the end topped world champion for a fourth successive season, however after the Dutchman’s dominant begin to his marketing campaign, the game was as open as it has been for a lot of, a few years.

McLaren in the end chased down Pink Bull and held off Ferrari to finish a 26-year watch for a Constructors’ Championship, with the competition happening to the ultimate lap of the ultimate race in Abu Dhabi.

Given the unrelenting drama, there have been loads of nice moments to select from, however Sky Sports activities‘ Nigel Chiu, James Galloway and Sam Johnston have chosen their favourites.

You may be part of within the festive enjoyable by reminding your self of those moments through the video clips offered, after which having your say on our vote for every class.

Races to recollect

NC: The Azerbaijan Grand Prix was probably the most underrated race of the 12 months. Oscar Piastri and Charles Leclerc handled us to an intense race-long battle, with the McLaren driver pulling off a courageous, daring overtake into Flip One after the pit cease section.

After that, Piastri defended brilliantly – not defending contemporary air when he did not have to as each drivers gave it every little thing. A race for the purists and a few top-quality driving all-around.

JG: I am going for Canada, as this was the primary time it actually began turning into clear that the 2024 season would possibly simply be somewhat bit particular by way of greater than two groups being within the combine for race wins on any given weekend. In reality, the prospect of multiple crew difficult for normal wins hadn’t seemed particularly probably within the marketing campaign’s early weeks.

George Russell impressively took Mercedes’ first pole of the 12 months after which, in chilly and moist race-day circumstances, the Briton duelled for victory with Max Verstappen and Lando Norris in a topsy-turvy race which featured 4 adjustments of lead and two Security Automobiles phases.

In the long run, after a day of errors, nice racing and unpredictability on the entrance, it was a race win that Verstappen and Pink Bull really earned the onerous method.

SJ: Simply when it began to look as if the day won’t come, Lewis Hamilton ended a 56-race winless streak in probably the most spectacular style to say a report ninth victory at Silverstone.

The dry-wet-dry race had every little thing as Hamilton noticed off Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, cueing unforgettable celebrations for the Brit in his closing season with Mercedes.

The most important shock

JG: Max Verstappen and Pink Bull going 10 races with out a win (and certainly successful solely two of the marketing campaign’s closing 14 rounds).

Given the season had began with Verstappen being described as working in “a different galaxy” by Mercedes’ Toto Wolff within the hours after the Dutchman gained the Bahrain GP by greater than 20 seconds, nobody may have critically seen the erosion of the defending champions’ earlier dominance taking place fairly so rapidly and emphatically. Not me anyway, that is for positive.

SJ: Mercedes’ resolution to switch Lewis Hamilton with Italian teenager Andrea ‘Kimi’ Antonelli is extraordinarily daring, and solely actually corresponding to when the Brit entered the game with McLaren in 2007.

The 18-year-old added additional drama by, only a day earlier than his signing was introduced, shunting the W15 into the barrier at Monza on his F1 observe debut. Count on fireworks in 2025!

NC: There is no different contender. Nobody noticed this coming. When Lewis Hamilton signed a brand new Mercedes deal in the course of 2023, it appeared just like the Ferrari dream transfer was over.

Hamilton to Ferrari was so large that it worn out all the soccer information on Switch Deadline Day again on February 1.

Pole place perfection

SJ: Lando Norris’ pole place on the Spanish Grand Prix was particular for a number of causes.

It was his first since his maiden pole on the 2021 Russian Grand Prix, it signified that McLaren had been capable of compete with Pink Bull at a circuit the place they’d beforehand been untouchable, and the Brit delivered what he described because the “perfect lap” to edge Max Verstappen.

JG: As he lastly lifted his so-called dwelling Monaco ‘curse’, Charles Leclerc was on imperious type all weekend lengthy within the Principality and his pole lap across the well-known avenue circuit was no exception.

In the event you ever wanted an illustration of the phrase ‘threading it needle’, Leclerc’s pole-winning lap of 1:10.270 round Monaco’s tight and twisty, barrier-lined confines would work nicely. Heading the grid on F1’s shortest monitor by 0.15s, the Ferrari driver was clearly working at a stage above – as he then proved on the Sunday by successful the race too.

NC: Max Verstappen didn’t have the quickest automotive in qualifying at Imola however he delivered a shocking lap in Q3 on an old-school monitor to beat the McLarens.

Verstappen tactically bought a cheeky slipstream on the lengthy most important straight from Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg to grab pole by lower than a tenth from Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.

Contemplating how onerous it was to overhaul at Imola, pole was essential and Verstappen wanted monitor place to disclaim Norris the win within the race.

Radio drama

SJ: I used to be in complete disbelief listening to the messages between Lando Norris and his race engineer Will Joseph because the McLaren pit wall tried to influence the Brit at hand the lead again over to his team-mate Oscar Piastri on the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Norris finally gave in, however the terribly public guilt-tripping course of that preceded that second was astounding, and likewise telling by way of each the crew and driver’s philosophy.

NC: Additionally in Budapest, we had Max Verstappen’s outbursts all through the race after he felt he was pressured out extensive by Norris on the first nook and was sad together with his technique. He was then later left pissed off by shedding monitor place after a pit cease, and sarcastically advised his crew: “It’s quite impressive how we let ourselves get undercut”.

I personally get pleasure from Verstappen’s radio and love the straightforwardness he has with engineer Gianpiero Lambiase. Maybe he went somewhat too far in Budapest, however we should always not overlook these F1 drivers are filled with adrenaline and risking their lives at over 180mph.

JG: Ever sworn at your boss in public earlier than? That is a field George Russell ticked in Austria after giving brief shrift to Toto Wolff’s excitable message over Mercedes crew radio of “you can win this, George!” after Max Verstappen and Lando Norris’ collision had gifted the Briton the lead late on within the race.

An embarrassed Wolff later described the timing of his message because the “single dumbest thing I’ve done in 12 years” at Mercedes. Arduous to argue.

Memorable media moments

JG: Let’s return to pre-testing in Bahrain for this and Lewis Hamilton’s first look in a press convention since his beautiful 2025 Ferrari transfer had been introduced a number of weeks beforehand.

Whereas inevitably barely awkward to be virtually completely fielding questions on a rival crew he was becoming a member of in 11 months’ time whereas sitting within the colors of his present employers, Hamilton dealt with the scenario nicely and, from the keenness of his solutions, it was clear how a lot he was already trying ahead to his subsequent large profession journey.

NC: Max Verstappen’s protest in opposition to his punishment for swearing in a press convention on the Singapore Grand Prix was exceptional. Verstappen selected to provide very brief solutions of not more than a sentence, or two, throughout Saturday’s FIA press convention after Qualifying, as an alternative opting to carry an impromptu briefing with journalists within the paddock.

A number of of us huddled and slowly walked down the steps and into the paddock as Verstappen defined his aspect of the “ridiculous” resolution from the stewards, as photographers rapidly gathered round, earlier than a Pink Bull press officer virtually acted as safety and introduced an finish to the unbelievable scenes.

SJ: The perfect was saved till final, as George Russell delivered an astonishing response to a double dose of criticism from Max Verstappen following the Dutchman’s barely controversial qualifying demotion on the Qatar Grand Prix.

A couple of days later in Abu Dhabi, Russell accused Verstappen of threatening him earlier than the Qatar race and stated the four-time world champion was a “bully” who wanted to be stood as much as.

The perfect overtakes

NC: Sure, I’ve gone for Piastri on Leclerc in Baku. To brake that late with out locking up and discovering the wall on the surface was sensible. An excellent overtake below strain and a race-winning transfer.

JG: From the identical Montreal race I selected earlier, however additional again within the pack, Alex Albon’s inch-perfect double go on Daniel Ricciardo and Esteban Ocon on the closing chicane.

With the Williams aided by a double slipstream as all three automobiles ran in shut firm down the back-straight from the hairpin, Albon drafted previous the RB on the surface earlier than opportunistically – and brilliantly – chopping again in entrance of Ricciardo to take the within line for the upcoming right-hander to arrange a direct transfer on Ocon’s Alpine too. All expertly navigated by Albon with out contact whereas working in slippery moist circumstances too.

SJ: Within the closing lap of the ultimate race of the 12 months, Lewis Hamilton pulled off an audacious go across the exterior of his team-mate George Russell to cap a shocking comeback drive from sixteenth on the grid.

It does not fairly make up for an much more well-known final-lap Abu Dhabi overtake that Hamilton was on the opposite finish of, nevertheless it was the proper option to finish his 12 years with Mercedes.

Brundle’s greatest grid stroll second

SJ: “It’s alright mate, I’m in charge around here.” – Martin Brundle, Might 26, 2024.

The nice man added one other legendary second to his grid stroll reel as he sidestepped Kyliann Mbappe’s safety to serve up an enthralling change with the French soccer star.

NC: At a moist Montreal, Martin discovered a former motorcyclist in Mary McGee, the primary lady to compete in bike highway racing and motocross occasions in the USA again within the Sixties.

McGee defined she solely stopped driving bikes in 2012 on the age of 75. Sadly, she handed away in November.

JG: Martin Brundle had by no means met Williams new boy Franco Colapinto forward of his Austin grid stroll… and nonetheless hadn’t by the top of it after the Argentine hurried previous to take his place together with his fellow drivers on the entrance of the grid simply as Martin tried to introduce himself.

“I think he thought I was trying to steal his umbrella, to be honest,” quipped Brundle in a while. Fortuitously, the pair caught up for the primary time correctly every week later within the Mexico paddock to clear up any misunderstandings.

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