F1 2024 Mid-Season Review: McLaren's Rise and Alpine's Fall

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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With 14 races down and 10 to go in the F1 2024 Season, Bryn Lucas is once again joined by Alex Kalinauckas and Ronald Vording to talk at length about the season so far and what may be still to come for the rest of 2024. There's a conversation about Red Bull's dominance and early pessimism about the season evaporating as McLaren leads the charge to bring down their status as the field's best, as well as Mercedes sneaking into the conversation after winning three out of the last four heading into the break, and where Ferrari have come up short after starting the year well. Also, Alpine's struggles continue as Bruno Famin steps down as team prinicpal for Oliver Oakes, their fifth team prinicpal in as many years, and asking if F1 should be radically changing the regulations in 18 months time, just as the field begins to converge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Bryn Lucas and you're listening to the Autosport podcast.
0:11.3	Well, it's been a hell of a first half of the season and as the sport takes a summer break,
0:15.4	we thought we break down the 2024 season so far. As once have a look at some of the latest news that's been coming out
0:21.9	of Alpine, where yet another high-profile name has departed. Before we get to that, though,
0:28.3	let's have a quick look at the championship standings after 14 of the 24 rounds. Well, it's Max
0:34.3	Westappen, as we know, leading the way. 277 points, just 78 ahead of Lando
0:40.1	Norris in that McLaren and then Charleclair in the Ferrari. 22 further back from Lando. Then it's
0:46.4	Oscar Piastri, Carlos Sainz, Louis Hamilton now up to 6th on 150 after another victory. Sergio
0:52.2	Perez in 7th, Russell, Alonso, Stroll and Holcomberg,
0:56.3	working all the way down the order to the very bottom there, with Joe Guanyu, Logan Sergeant
1:00.5	and Vautary Bottas still yet to score. And onto the constructors, it's Red Bull leading the way,
1:06.3	408 points. They are only 42 ahead now of McLaren. Then it's Ferrari and Mercedes starting to make up some ground.
1:13.9	Aston Martin, R.B. Hass, Alpine, Williams. And still yet to score at the very bottom, it's Salba on zero.
1:21.7	So to you first then, Alex, what has been for you the biggest difference maker that has seen McLaren and Mercedes close the gap up on Red Bull?
1:31.0	Yeah, I think it's annoyingly one of those nuanced answers where it's a sort of combination of various things.
1:36.2	I think that Red Bull, I could be wrong on this because I'm not a technical person,
1:41.6	and I'm sure lots of very clever, intelligent people at Red Bull
1:44.3	would tell me, I'm definitely wrong. But on the face of it, it does seem like they've hit a
1:47.8	sort of development ceiling with the RB20. There was this suggestion from James Allison, whether
1:52.2	it was mine games or whatever from Mercedes saying. They've had a downgrade on that car as well,
1:57.0	and things just haven't gone right. And, you know, Max Rastappans openly talked about it.
2:01.9	They've not added enough performance and that's frustrating him.
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