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After a mix of highs and lows, Franco Colapinto is ranked 16th in Pit Debrief’s F1 2024 Driver Rankings. The Argentine driver joined the 2024 Formula One season as the 22nd driver, replacing Logan Sargeant at Williams Racing. He quickly gained attention with strong performances early on. However, his momentum stalled after failing to finish…
Valtteri Bottas’ third and final year with Sauber failed to live up to expectations netting him 17th in our F1 2024 Driver Rankings. A poor C44 saw the Finn suffer his first pointless season in his 12 year Formula 1 career. 2024 was a year to forget for Bottas. With his three year stint with…
Zhou Guanyu’s three-year stint at Sauber ends not with a bang, as he would have hoped, but with a whimper, as reflected in our F1 Driver Rankings. Despite a promising P11 finish during the 2024 Bahrain GP, the Chinese driver struggled throughout the season, failing to score points in all but one race. With just…
Daniel Ricciardo’s tenure in the Red Bull family ended abruptly after the Singapore Grand Prix, leaving him in P19 in our F1 Driver Rankings. It was an exit that shocked most of his fans, but why did his performance drop? Tough seasons After parting ways with Renault, Ricciardo joined McLaren in 2021. His tenure there,…
In 20th place on our list of the 2024 F1 Driver Rankings is Canadian Lance Stroll — his eighth full season in the sport now completed. A solid first part of the season All of Stroll’s points came in the first part of the season before the summer break. His best result was a P6…
If we thought Sergio Pérez’s slump in performance couldn’t get any worse after last year, his run of form since the 2024 Emilia-Romagna GP has managed to put his future in the sport in jeopardy. With him finishing the season in a lowly eighth place and his teammate Max Verstappen securing his fourth successive drivers’…
Last in our standings, the American driver’s sophomore F1 season definitely was not what neither Sargeant nor team boss James Vowles had expected or hoped for. The Williams Academy driver had prepared himself in 2022 amassing a great deal of kilometres by testing during FP1s and private tests, conducted alongside his rookie Formula 2 season….
The Las Vegas GP saw Max Verstappen crowned as F1 World Drivers’ Champion for the fourth time, with Mercedes bagging a 1-2 as George Russell and Lewis Hamilton ultimately dominated precedings on Saturday night. In the fight for the Constructors’ Championship, Ferrari clawed back 12 points on McLaren in the Constructors’ Championship as 24 separate…
The shock announcement of Niels Wittich leaving his role as F1 race director — that seems to have been a firing — comes following a weekend at the Brazil GP where questions around safety came to the fore once again. Rui Marques is replacing Wittich as race director for the rest of the 2024 F1…
November is men’s mental health month. Many men struggle silently with their mental health, although a few of the men in formula 1 are on a mission to make mental health conversations less taboo, by speaking about their own mental health. In the October of 2021, McLaren’s Lando Norris opened up on live television about…
