How teams have performed in 2024 compared to 2023

Pink Bull utterly dominated the 2023 F1 season because it clinched back-to-back constructors’ title by profitable 21 of twenty-two grands prix – however 2024 has not been as type.

Although the Milton Keynes-based squad nonetheless leads this 12 months’s championship, the competitors is way nearer and Pink Bull has received half as many races in comparison with this stage final season.

Aston Martin, McLaren and RB are amongst others to have large efficiency variations, so how does every staff evaluate after 14 rounds in 2023 to after 14 rounds in 2024 with F1 at the moment in its summer time break?

Pink Bull

The RB19 is statistically the most dominant F1 car ever, because it received 95% of grands prix in 2023 which included a record-breaking 14-race profitable run to begin the 12 months.

Which means, at this stage final season, many puzzled if Pink Bull might go unbeaten on account of its benefit over the remainder of the grid with Max Verstappen as its main driver. Ultimately it didn’t although, as Carlos Sainz received the season’s fifteenth spherical in Singapore.

Pink Bull’s rivals then made positive aspects over the low season, whereas its technical director Pierre Wache advised Autosport that the RB20 “didn’t deliver what we expected”. So, regardless of a powerful begin with seven wins in 10, the indicators had been clear that Pink Bull’s benefit was not important – particularly when Verstappen received in Imola by lower than a second.

Sergio Perez, Pink Bull Racing, pole man Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing

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It has culminated in Pink Bull failing to win the ultimate 4 grands prix earlier than the summer time break and though Verstappen leads the championship, his team-mate Sergio Perez is seventh and the one driver inside the highest eight to not win a race.

So, although Pink Bull continues to be first within the championship, it’s 175 factors worse off than it was after 14 rounds in 2023 with seven fewer victories and 9 fewer podiums.

McLaren

McLaren has arguably made the largest acquire over the past 12 months, as this time final season it was fifth within the championship with solely two podiums within the opening 14 grands prix. Lando Norris was eighth within the standings with no grand prix victory to his title, which is one thing Oscar Piastri didn’t have both as he was contesting his rookie marketing campaign and had made a gentle begin in twelfth.

However in 2024 McLaren heads into every race gunning for victory with the quickest automobile at sure tracks and each drivers have turn into grand prix winners – Norris in Miami and Piastri in Budapest. That is the primary time for 12 years that McLaren has scored a number of wins in a marketing campaign, after making spectacular workers adjustments over the low season that included signing engineer Rob Marshall from Pink Bull.

McLaren is second within the championship with 366 factors, 251 greater than this time final season, and on 12 podiums. So, the staff firmly believes that it’s in a title struggle in opposition to Pink Bull, because the British squad is simply 42 factors behind with 10 grands prix and three dash races remaining.

McLaren’s enchancment has maybe masked the work of Frederic Vasseur at Ferrari, because the Scuderia is 117 factors higher off than this stage final season with two extra victories – Sainz in Australia and Charles Leclerc in Monaco – regardless of remaining third within the standings.

So, wanting from afar it’d seem to be Ferrari has stood nonetheless, particularly when its type has tailed off barely with three podiums within the final six after hitting a improvement plateau. But it surely has nonetheless been a season of development for the Scuderia, which in Australia scored its first 1-2 for 2 years amid a powerful begin to the season that included eight podiums within the opening eight rounds, culminating in Leclerc’s emotional residence win.

That continued a disappointing two years for Mercedes, who had only one victory – the 2022 Brazilian GP – for the reason that flip of the bottom impact period. However, it steadily improved because the Silver Arrows stood on the rostrum in Canada and Spain earlier than Russell’s shock victory in Austria, the place he took the lead with seven laps left after Verstappen and Norris collided.

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-AMG

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Mercedes received the next weekend’s British GP as effectively, which ended a win drought of just about three years for Hamilton, whose earlier victory was the 2021 Saudi Arabian GP. The Silver Arrows continued its upward trajectory by becoming upgrades for the remaining rounds earlier than the summer time break and Hamilton scored a podium in Hungary earlier than claiming one other win at Spa-Francorchamps.

In Belgium, Mercedes really completed 1-2 on the street however a post-race disqualification for Russell, who had an underweight automobile, gave the win to his team-mate. These victories now imply that, regardless of Mercedes being seven factors worse off than this stage final season, it has collected extra wins, poles and podiums with the staff being simply as fast because the championship prime three.

Aston Martin

So, Aston Martin is 144 factors worse than this stage final season and has a 193-point deficit to Mercedes. The silver lining being that sixth-placed RB is 39 factors behind, so Aston Martin is in its personal league sitting fifth within the championship. 

RB

RB – then generally known as AlphaTauri – had an especially disappointing begin to 2023, as Pink Bull’s sister squad was backside of the championship after 14 grands prix with simply three factors. It improved within the latter levels although, because the Faenza-based squad scored 22 factors within the last eight rounds after taking gradual flooring upgrades and becoming the RB19’s rear suspension.

The staff has carried that type into 2024, as RB has 34 factors after 14 grands prix and is 4 locations larger within the championship than it was at this stage final season. RB is at the moment on a powerful run of 10 level scores within the final 12 grands prix, which features a fourth-placed end for Daniel Ricciardo within the Miami dash race.

Haas

Haas is one other staff to have made a greater begin, because the American outfit is one place larger within the championship having scored 16 extra factors than it did at this stage final season.

That included double factors scores in Australia and Austria, with the Pink Bull Ring that includes its joint-best results of sixth for Nico Hulkenberg which was additionally his ending place at Silverstone. Hulkenberg is scoring most of Haas’ factors although because the 36-year-old, who is because of depart for Sauber on the finish of 2024, and has 22 factors in comparison with Kevin Magnussen’s 5, with the Dane additionally set to go away.

Nico Hulkenberg, Haas VF-24, Daniel Ricciardo, RB F1 Workforce VCARB 01

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The staff’s improved type comes after it modified its boss over the low season, with Ayao Komatsu changing Guenther Steiner whereas Haas has additionally taken the proper improvement paths all through this marketing campaign.

Alpine has considerably declined in comparison with final season, as 11 factors for the French squad means it’s 62 factors worse off and two positions decrease within the championship. The staff made a strong begin to 2023, which included shock podiums in Monaco and the Netherlands, but it surely couldn’t sustain that type as Alpine completed the 12 months in sixth, 160 factors behind Aston Martin but 92 forward of Williams, having modified its administration construction halfway by way of.

The staff then undertook a whole redesign of its automobile for 2024, however that largely backfired as Alpine began the 12 months with varied issues like traction and an excessive amount of understeer. This resulted in Alpine scoring zero factors throughout the opening 5 rounds, however upgrades have since helped the staff enhance and it even claimed back-to-back double scores in Canada and Spain.

However, Alpine continues to be one of many worst groups on the grid with its drivers Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon respectively sitting fifteenth and seventeenth within the standings.

Williams

Williams has additionally had a harder begin to 2024, as simply 4 factors for the staff means it has 17 fewer than at this stage final season. The British squad can also be two championship positions decrease in ninth, as Alex Albon stated “we’ve got a better car than last year, but so does everyone else”.

There may be nonetheless a optimistic ambiance at Williams although, because the staff has signed three-time grand prix winner Sainz for 2025 who will exchange the struggling Logan Sargeant. Williams is constructing for the regulation change in 2026, so is concentrated on creating the staff and its infrastructure over the approaching months for a profitable transition into the brand new guidelines.

Sauber

Sauber has been essentially the most disappointing staff of 2024, as it’s backside of the championship and the one constructor to not but rating some extent. The Swiss squad is just struggling for all-round tempo having failed to enhance over the low season as a lot as its rivals.

Valtteri Bottas, Stake F1 Workforce Kick Sauber C44

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This has prompted concern at Audi, who is about for a full takeover of the squad in 2026. Proper now, a lot of the chatter at Sauber is about Audi’s impending arrival who have hired ex-Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto to lead the team.

That’s nonetheless a good distance away although, and each Sauber drivers are at the moment combating for his or her F1 futures, because the contracts of Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu expire on the finish of this season with neither but to signal an extension.