3 Bold F1 Predictions in 2024

It’s a new dawn, a new year and the upcoming F1 season may remain the same. Here are some bold predictions ahead of the 2024 season.

2024 is upon us and it means people are in full swing of their New Year resolutions. Whereas those in F1 personnel across the world are continuously working on perfecting their title challengers for this season.

So what are some bold predictions for the upcoming season? A closer title fight? Shock driver moves? Or, will an eluded maiden victory be finally seized?

Ferrari and Mercedes re-enter the title fight

In 2023, Red Bull essentially walked away with the title in the drivers and constructors championship. However, this year, I suspect they will not be able to repeat similar successes of 2023.

After a dismal season for both former world champions, the two teams will look to rectify their wrongdoings of 2023. Mercedes finally realised their zero-side-pod concept was not pushing the team in the right direction. Ferrari worked on their problems, amid former strategy and pit-stop blunders that saw them throw away the championship fight in 2022.

While everyone was somewhat enjoying the winter break, Ferrari and Mercedes will certainly be looking to find a solution to catapult the former champions back into contention. As such, I do believe the two teams will rejoin the battle for silverware this season with at least each driver from both teams securing race wins.

Tsunoda moves away from F1 or Alpha Tauri after 2024

Yuki Tsunoda is a great talent in F1, there is no doubt about it. Granted, he was fairly hot-headed over the team radio broadcasts when he first started but he soon matured through his tenure in F1. However, I think the young Japanese driver’s time in F1 is numbered; at the very least, they’re numbered with Alpha Tauri.

The Faenza-based team was not competitive, a fairly standard backmarker in the overall scope of the 2023 season. The driver suffered greatly with its driver line-up as they had four competing drivers across the year. Had it not been for their late resurgence in the dying embers of the season, lifting them just behind Williams, they would have – very likely – finished last.

This is why I expect Tsunoda to announce a move away from the sport or Alpha Tauri, like Pierre Gasly to Alpine before him. The car is just not as competitive as Tsunoda would be hoping for. Plus, his teammate, Daniel Ricciardo, is fully motivated to snatch back a seat at Red Bull so it looks like his chances to move into the senior team are slim.

Lando Norris secures maiden victory

A Grand Prix winner, it’s a title that has eluded the 24-year-old since he joined in 2019. Of course, Norris has had his opportunity to correct this but it has never flourished into fruition. Team orders prevented his win in Monza, in 2021, where Daniel Ricciardo secured his only win for McLaren and an ill decision not to pit for intermediates, in Sochi, 2021, was his wrongdoing.

However, based on McLaren’s performance in the latter stages of 2023 it looks hopeful that Norris will finally be able to end this duck. In the season, the young McLaren driver secured six second-place finishes with his closest opportunity coming at Singapore where he finished eight-tenths behind Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.

Across the upcoming record-breaking season, I predict Norris will finally become a Grand Prix race winner. The problem is this opportunity, in my belief, will only come at one event through the season and if he fails to get it, he will not be able to repeat a similar scenario for the remainder of the season.

That’s all for the article; 3 Bold F1 Predictions in 2024!

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Kamron Kent

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