Thoughts on the 2024 Formula One Season After Two Races (Part Two)

This is the second part of this article. Part one was mainly about the front of the pack and part two is mostly about the rest of the pack.

Kick Sauber looks to be off to a decent start. Almost scoring points in Bahrain, with Zhou finishing in 11th. In Saudi Arabia they looked to be a little further behind in 17th and 18th. If their development is good this year and into 2025 and when they become Audi in 2026 they could really move up the field.

RB’s car seems a little underwhelming as people in preseason testing talked it up a lot. Also Tsunoda seems to be faster than Ricciardo but Ricciardo is the one everyone thinks might go to Red Bull. If Ricciardo really wants to go to Red Bull he needs to start out performing Tsunoda, who at the moment is looking like the more competitive of the two.

Haas scored their first points in over 20 races in Saudi Arabia. They had a clever strategy where they used Hulkenburg, who had two ten second penalties but was running in the points,to hold up the field, allowing Magnessen to score a point for Haas. Haas didn’t have good development last year so it’ll be interesting to see if they have fixed that problem for this year.

Williams is looking a little more behind than last year but they said that they are focusing more in the long term. Albon very nearly scored points in Saudi Arabia with 11th and Sargeant a few spots behind in 14th. Sargeant definitely needs to up his game this year, as he was out-qualified by his teammate Albon every time last year. Sargeant has shown sometimes he does have the pace and he just needs to work on showing it more often.

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