To say that the 2024 season has been action-packed would be something of an understatement; from huge news stories breaking off the track to some increasingly close battles on it, there were plenty of talking points throughout the year. With so much going on, it’s easy to forget some of the events that happened during the 24-race campaign – but fear not, we have rounded up a few big moments that you might have forgotten from 2024, including intra-team fallouts, an unusual item left on a car and the Safety Car’s long absence…
Tensions boil over between Ricciardo and Tsunoda
The RB team were never far away from the headlines in 2024 – what with the continued speculation over their driver line-up – but it was an incident at the season-opener in Bahrain that first got everyone talking about the squad.
In the latter stages of the race, Yuki Tsunoda was instructed by the team to let Daniel Ricciardo through, with the intention being for the Australian – sporting the soft compound in contrast to the hard tyres on Tsunoda’s car – to try to attack Haas’s Kevin Magnussen. After asking if they were “kidding”, Tsunoda then fulfilled the request.
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Ricciardo was ultimately unable to pass Magnussen but came home ahead of Tsunoda in P13. Once the chequered flag fell, a seemingly frustrated Tsunoda appeared to dive-bomb his team mate before then nearly taking out the sister RB as he returned to the track, prompting a baffled Ricciardo to comment: “F***, what the f***? I’ll save it.”
The 35-year-old later labelled the incident as “a bit of immaturity”, while Tsunoda stated post-race: “I don’t even want to talk about it.” Any tensions appeared to have been resolved by Round 2 in Saudia Arabia, but it seemingly marked the start of what would be a tough campaign ahead for Ricciardo…
