Hey there friends
Welcome to the very first Race Week Recap. This was originally just a post on Twitter back on 7 February 2024 before the season got under way, but I’ll add it to the archive here because I could never live with myself if I had to start the newsletter with the 3rd edition of the Race Week Recap.
Top story of the week: Hamilton moves to Ferrari from 2025 on a multi year contract.
Why is this important? Hamilton is arguably the greatest F1 driver of all time. He’s definitely in contention. Most people assumed he would see out his career with Mercedes, the team that won him 6 out of his 7 championships, and where’s he’s seen unprecedented success and popularity.
But the recent lack of form from the team has made him go for glory with the Scuderia instead, making many people doubt that Mercedes have managed to find a short term solution to their woes.
The rest of the stories this week:
- Formula 1 rejects Andretti’s bid to join the grid in 2026.
- Haas fires Guenther Steiner. Ayao Komatsu takes over as Team Principal.
- Christian Horner faces investigation over inappropriate behaviour.
- Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber can’t be called Stake at select races.
- The Singapore GP might not be a thing.
- The Barcelona GP might not be a thing.
- The Madrid GP is a thing.
- Suzuka is a thing until 2029 at least.
- 3 PUs per season limitation is increased to 4.
- Sprint weekend format changed.
- Leclerc’s Spotify was hacked.
- Norris extends with McLaren.
- Nyck de Vries has to pay back his €250k racing loan.
- Australia is back as the season opener in 2025.
- Leclerc extends with Ferrari.
- The Wolffs accused and cleared of passing confidential insider info.
That’s it for the first edition. And remember: If someone says they’re from Rich Energy and wants to enter into a partnership… Run…
Until next time. Thank you for being here!
