The 2024 FIA Formula One World Championship is a planned motor racing championship for

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set to be the 75th running of the Formula One World Championship. It is recognised by the

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(FIA), the governing body of international

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, as the highest class of competition for

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s. The championship is scheduled to be contested over a record twenty-four held around the world, beginning in March and ending in December. Drivers and teams will compete for the titles of World Drivers' Champion and World Constructors' Champion, respectively.

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is the reigning Drivers' Champion, while his team, Red Bull Racing- Honda RBPT, are the reigning Constructors' Champions.

Entries

The following constructors and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2024 World Championship. All teams are set to compete with tyres supplied by

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. Each team is required to enter at least two drivers, one for each of the two mandatory cars.

Driver changes

The only change from the drivers contracted at the beginning of is

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, who replaced Nyck de Vries at the former

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team from the

2023 Hungarian Grand Prix The 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Qatar Airways Hungarian Grand Prix 2023) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 23 July 2023 at the Hungaroring circuit in Mogyoród, Hungary. It was the eleventh round of t ...

onwards. All driver and team combinations that competed in the final round of the previous season are set to remain unchanged for the start of the next season for the first time in Formula One World Championship history.

Team changes

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ended their partnership with Sauber and left Formula One in as Sauber prepares to become the

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works team in 2026. The team was rebranded as

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F1 Team with a constructor name of Kick Sauber.

rebranded as RB, with an identical constructor name. The aerodynamics operations of the team were relocated to

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in the

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amidst a management restructure.

Calendar

The 2024 calendar comprises a record twenty-four Grands Prix. The

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and

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Grands Prix will feature the

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format.

Calendar expansion and changes

The

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is scheduled to return to the calendar for the first time since after being cancelled for four years in a row due to difficulties presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The

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, which was cancelled in 2023 due to flooding in the area, is scheduled to return to the calendar. The Russian Grand Prix was under contract to feature on the 2024 calendar. However, the contract was terminated in in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Regulation changes

Technical regulations

In response to extreme conditions resulting in cockpit overheating during the 2023 Qatar Grand Prix, teams will now be allowed to install a scoop to the car that is intended to cool down the driver and cockpit area. Wheel covers will be further tested during the season. Teams will not be allowed to start wind tunnel or

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work for the 2026 season, which will see major technical regulations rule changes, until 1 January 2025. However, teams may still do other preliminary research and development work not covered by these restrictions.

Tyres

The "alternative tyre allocation" trialled at the 2023 Hungarian and Italian Grands Prix, where drivers were given 11 sets of tyres in an attempt to cut costs in the sport, will be discontinued. Therefore, teams will revert to having 13 sets of tyres available per driver during every race weekend. The C0 tyre compound (the hardest compound in

's dry tyre range), which was introduced but not used during the season, was dropped from the tyre line-up. This compound was previously known as the C1, but was renamed at the start of the 2023 season following the introduction of a new C1 compound that slotted between the old C1 and current C2 compounds in terms of hardness. A proposed trial for a ban on tyre blankets for this season and a full ban in 2025 was abandoned.

Sporting regulations

The decision appeal process was amended for the 2024 season. Previously, teams had up to fourteen days to submit a right of review request. This will now be reduced to four days. In an attempt to stop potentially frivolous appeal attempts, the FIA will also introduce a fee for the right of review process. The structure of the sprint weekends will change for 2024, though exact details on these changes have yet to be finalised. The changes will have the intent of further rationalising sprint events and separating them from the rest of the Grand Prix weekend.

Season summary

A single pre-season test is scheduled to be held at the Bahrain International Circuit in

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on 21–23 February.

References

External links

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