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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #42 Oliver Rowland

Oliver Rowland became a genuine title challenger, Formula E’s dark horse of 2024, upon returning to the grid and rejoining Nissan.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #34 Ryan Blaney

He was agonisingly close to becoming the first driver to win back-to-back titles in NASCAR's knockout format, but there was still plenty to be proud of for Ryan Blaney in 2024.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #31 Sebastien Ogier

Such was his speed, Sebastien Ogier was persuaded by Toyota to extend his partial campaign to an eventual 10 rounds.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #24 Renger van der Zande

Fifteen years have passed since the Dutchman was a thorn in the side of Nico Hulkenberg and Daniel Ricciardo in Formula 3, yet Renger van der Zande still performs on a high level and was arguably the year’s outstanding IMSA SportsCar driver.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #23 Nico Hulkenberg

Nico Hulkenberg led the line admirably for Haas as the American team stepped up its performance for 2024.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #21 Pierre Gasly

Alpine’s struggles with an overweight and undercooked car at the start of 2024 hurt Pierre Gasly but, when the A524 started to improve, the Frenchman shone.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #11 George Russell

Qualifying was where George Russell gained an important edge at Mercedes in 2024, which he put down to his confidence rising in situations where the pressure is on. He ended up with a small but still significant 0.148s advantage over a driver with 104 F1 poles in Lewis Hamilton.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #5 Scott McLaughlin

Had it not been for Team Penske’s push-to-pass scandal that rocked the IndyCar Series and negated a third-place finish in the St Petersburg season-opener, Scott McLaughlin could very well have been crowned champion. The 31-year-old New Zealand native was a force in 2024, with a season that elevated him to…

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #4 Alex Palou

He didn’t produce the same level of dominance as last year, but the end result was the same: Alex Palou hoisted the Astor Cup Trophy for a third time in 2024.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #3 Lando Norris

Undoubtedly, his best Formula 1 season to date – with the statistics proving so. In 2024, Lando Norris finished as championship runner-up (his previous best finishing position was sixth in 2021 and 2023), he took four wins in breaking his GP victory duck (along with a sprint win too) and…

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #2 Charles Leclerc

If 2024 was a year when Ferrari made it clear exactly how much Charles Leclerc means to the team – signing him to a new contract and leaving Carlos Sainz exposed when Lewis Hamilton became available – then he too showed how much the Prancing Horse means to him.

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #1 Max Verstappen

“A Schrodinger’s season for Max Verstappen. Concurrently his best and not his best.” That’s how we’ve described the world champion’s campaign in our Formula 1 driver rankings. And that’s because there are two ways of looking at Verstappen’s performance over the past months.

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Red Bull's Lawson pick makes its Ricciardo experiment a waste of time

Let's recap the saga of Red Bull's second seat alongside Max Verstappen, shall we? It's a saga that, by all accounts, is gratuitously long and ends in a resolution that would be entirely predictable for a team with a 'normal' approach to the driver market.

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Are there enough reasons to justify Lawson's Red Bull deal?

It's somewhat explainable how Red Bull ended up here. You don't necessarily have to agree that Christian Horner and Helmut Marko have made all the right decisions regarding their team's driver line-up over the past year and a half, but you can still find some logic in how they came…

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A hope and a prayer: Are there enough reasons to justify Lawson's Red Bull deal?

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The 10 F1 2024 moments that cost Perez his Red Bull drive

Sergio Perez’s Red Bull career haul now ends at five wins, three poles and 932 points. That he only added to the last of those three categories in the 2024 Formula 1 season is one of three key reasons why he’s finally been cast off as Max Verstappen’s team-mate.

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Daly returns to IndyCar full time for 2025 with Juncos Hollinger Racing

Is Conor Daly the mercenary who finally found a home?“The nomad that finally got a place to take residence,” was his response to Autosport in an exclusive sit down roughly an hour before the announcement that he would be returning to IndCar with Juncos Hollinger Racing for 2025. The native Hoosier…

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Conor Daly finally returns full time for 2025 with Juncos Hollinger Racing

Conor Daly finally has his full-time IndyCar Series return with Juncos Hollinger, says he's aiming to win the Indianapolis 500.

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Help wanted: The least useful team-mates in F1 history

Red Bull's Sergio Pérez had a horrible 2024 season, but where does he stack up among the worst #2 drivers on good teams?

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Discovering and developing young talent is at the heart of Williams F1 comeback plan

Williams is on a “mission” to return to the top of Formula 1 – and at the very heart of that assignment lies the team’s early careers programmes.

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The old-school F1 obsession that Aston Martin is having to shake off

Formula 1’s current ground-effect cars are unlikely to go down as fond favourites for the engineers and designers who have worked with them.

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The management culture that has helped McLaren’s push to F1 title glory

McLaren CEO Zak Brown thinks a management team that is "constructively critical" of itself has been a cornerstone of his team's success in Formula 1.

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The "weakness" van Gisbergen has identified to improve in NASCAR

It’s been a long year for Shane van Gisbergen. In his first season racing full-time in the USA, the New Zealander clocked up 33 starts in the NASCAR Xfinity series and 11 in the Cup series. After already changing bases once in his career, to Australia, he has criss-crossed North…

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Promoter of the Year shortlist

The Promoter of the Year is an award that recognises the promoter of a motorsport event who produced an exceptional and commercially successful event or events during the season and showed a commitment to improving the fan experience.

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Ben Sulayem finds ally in swearing clampdown in Mercedes boss Wolff

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s push to drive swearing out of Formula 1 has received unlikely support from Mercedes boss Toto Wolff.

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