The 2024 Constructors’ Championship was determined within the ultimate race of the 12 months, with McLaren and Ferrari battling till the checkered flag. The British workforce arrived at Yas Marina with a 21-point lead over their rivals, and regardless of Oscar Piastri being taken out by Max Verstappen on the first nook, the second and third locations secured by the Ferrari drivers weren’t sufficient to overhaul the “papayas,” who triumphed because of Lando Norris’s victory.
This was the 67th Constructors’ Championship. Established in 1958, eight years after the class’s inception, it was launched to acknowledge not solely drivers but additionally the producers and designers of the vehicles.
The workforce with essentially the most Constructors’ Championships in historical past is Ferrari, adopted by McLaren, Williams, and Mercedes. Crimson Bull, however, is simply in sixth place. Under is the official rating.
For drivers, excelling of their particular person championship is paramount, however each workforce aspires to win the Constructors’ Championship, not just for the benefit it supplies the next 12 months but additionally as a result of the title comes with the next financial reward. Whereas the precise distribution of prize cash in F1 is confidential, a dependable estimate might be made based mostly on publicly accessible info.
In line with the Concorde Settlement, the contract governing the championship, the prize pool for groups equals 50% of F1’s business rights income. Nonetheless, groups don’t all the time obtain the complete 50%, as past a sure income threshold, Method 1 administration’s share share will increase. For instance, in 2022, F1 generated $2.57 billion in income, with a prize pool of $1.157 billion, roughly 45%.
Moreover, funds will not be distributed equally: Ferrari, for example, receives an additional cost of about 5% attributable to its historic significance, having participated in each season since F1’s debut in 1950. There are additionally bonuses for previous successes, corresponding to championship wins, with estimates suggesting bonus funds account for about 25% of the pool, leaving the remaining sum for different groups.
Based mostly on these estimates and final 12 months’s information, the 14-point distinction that value Ferrari the championship disadvantaged the Maranello workforce of a further $9 million to make use of subsequent season. Nonetheless, trying on the optimistic facet of ending second total, this rating not solely determines the prize cash but additionally the wind tunnel time allotted to every workforce. The nearer a workforce is to the highest of the standings, the much less time they’ve accessible for automobile growth. Subsequently, Ferrari can have extra wind tunnel time than Andrea Stella‘s workforce, permitting them to arrange for 2025 with even better dedication.
Dec 21, 2024
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