Both McLaren or Ferrari will win the 2024 Method 1 constructors’ championship, which means one of many sport’s two most iconic groups can lastly finish its lengthy drought
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That neither of Method 1’s two most iconic manufacturers have received the groups’ title for nicely over a decade is a tragic indictment of the best way these outfits have been run in recent times.
However both McLaren or Ferrari will lastly finish their astonishingly lengthy drought in Abu Dhabi this Sunday. The previous are in pole place, 21 factors forward and on the cusp of a primary constructors’ championship success since 1998.
If Ferrari can shut that hole at Yas Marina, it is going to be their first since 2008, when now-F1 chief govt Stefano Domenicali was in cost. Their wait hasn’t been as lengthy however, to place it into context, that was the yr their new recruit Lewis Hamilton, who turns 40 in January, made his F1 debut.
Charles Leclerc is aware of he and team-mate Carlos Sainz must be good in Abu Dhabi to present themselves one of the best likelihood of guaranteeing that Ferrari wait doesn’t go on. He mentioned: “We’ll nonetheless be within the struggle and we’ll do all the things to win the title. We have to win, first and second.
“At Yas Marina, we have by no means received however there’s all the time a primary time for all the things. I feel it is a good yr to do it. I would by no means received in Monaco and this yr there was the primary [victory]. I hope it is going to be the identical in Abu Dhabi.”
Lando Norris mentioned he felt like he had let his staff down after a penalty turned a nailed-on podium right into a Tenth-placed end in Qatar on Sunday. However the actuality is McLaren are nonetheless in a mighty place and have been podium contenders on the overwhelming majority of races held this season.
Norris’ team-mate Oscar Piastri echoed that as he mentioned: “I might nonetheless fairly be in our place fairly than Ferrari’s. “It will go all the way down to the wire clearly however let’s stay optimistic and I feel we nonetheless have an excellent likelihood.”
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Regardless of drivers’ champion Max Verstappen’s victory in Qatar, Crimson Bull’s title defence is over as team-mate Sergio Perez failed to complete. The Mexican has had a dreadful season together with a very wretched latest run which has seen him rating simply two factors throughout the final 4 race weekends, and simply 21 because the summer season break.
Mirror Sport understands the Abu Dhabi race is ready to be Perez’s final as a Crimson Bull driver, regardless of the actual fact he has a contract for 2025. Workforce principal Christian Horner stopped wanting confirming that after the Qatar race and mentioned he wouldn’t power his driver out of the staff.
He mentioned: “We’re very a lot centered on actually supporting him to the chequered flag in Abu Dhabi. Clearly, it is not an pleasing scenario for Checo, being on this place with hypothesis each week. He is sufficiently old and smart sufficient to know what the scenario is, and yeah, let’s have a look at the place we’re after Abu Dhabi.”
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