After a long winter break, it's finally race week! Inspired by The Backmarkers podcast, I figured I'd write down my predictions for the F1 2024 season to see how many of these I get right by the end of the year.
If you follow the sport, you'll know a couple of these predictions are unlikely to happen. But obviously I am biased, and those are more of my wishcasting than anything.
- Max wins drivers' championship with fewer than four races remaining. He doesn't win as many races as he did last year. There are three other race winners besides him.
- Red Bull wins constructors' championship at the Austin Grand Prix. Mercedes comes in second and the point gap to Red Bull is smaller than last year.
- Lewis wins a race with Mercedes one last time at the São Paulo Grand Prix.
- Lando wins his maiden Grand Prix (it's long overdue).
- RB1 finishes higher in constructors' championship than last year.
- Yuki gets his maiden podium, and outscores Daniel at the end of the season.
- Alex gets a podium (by some miracle).
- Carlos outscores Charles.
- Logan loses his seat at Williams.
- Alex gets the Mercedes seat.
- Checo loses his Red Bull seat and Carlos gets it.
- After the investigation, Christian Horner remains Red Bull team principal and only gets a slap on the wrist2.
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I hate their new team name so much. ↩︎
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We'll find out about this tomorrow. I won't be surprised if the allegations are proven to be true. But I can't imagine Red Bull sacking him, as much as I'd love to see that happen. ↩︎