Revealed: The F1 2024 Constructors’ Championship without Red Bull
Red Bull are hot favourites to retain both World Championships, so we thought we'd take a look at the alternatives.
The Red Bull RB20 looked the class of the field at the start of the season, and despite the fact they went out of the running for the title, we had been calculating what F1 2024 would have looked like without the reigning World Champions involved just for fun, just in case of another year of dominance.
After Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez took one-two finishes in the opening two races of the season, we went early in taking a look at how the Constructors’ Championship might shake out without them in 2024 – but while that expectation was ultimately misplaced, we carried on regardless.
Calculating the F1 Constructors’ Championship without Red Bull
As we have done in our tally for calculating the Drivers’ Championship without Max Verstappen, in this case we are excluding the results of both Verstappen and Perez and handing out their points to the drivers below by moving their places up.
Given how close the chasing pack has been behind Red Bull, we reckon the points differences given out for victories instead of the lower placings could well make a big change in these hypothetical standings.
Please remember that this is just for fun and these figures are being calculated with that in mind, and though Red Bull have now been overtaken in the real-life Constructors’ standings, in true Mastermind fashion, we’ve started, so we’ll finish…
We’re keeping track of the maths as the season unfolds, and any time a Red Bull driver earns a fastest lap point, it will be redistributed to the next-fastest driver over one lap in race trim.
So after Verstappen claimed fastest lap in Bahrain, Charles Leclerc set the second-fastest lap of the race there, and that bonus point has gone to Ferrari instead as a result. Likewise when Perez took the fastest lap at Spa, Lando Norris was behind him there, so the point went to McLaren instead.
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At the summer break stage, McLaren and Ferrari are sprinting clear of their rivals in these fantasy standings, though a resurgent Mercedes had reeled in the gap significantly, before the front two ran away once again.
Those to gain the most from those P11 and P12 placings so far, along with points jumps from Verstappen and Perez already being in the points would be Haas, who were on 27 points at the summer break but would have been on 64 after 14 rounds in these standings, with VCARB on 62 here while on 34 in real life, showing how the F1 points system makes every place count at every race.
But after Brazil, when Verstappen took victory, Alpine would have had a 1-2 finish there – and while they trebled their points count in real life, they had another big jump here too.
F1 2024 Constructors’ Championship without Red Bull [correct as of Abu Dhabi GP]
1: McLaren – 778
2: Ferrari – 758
3: Mercedes – 546
4: Aston Martin – 162
5: Alpine – 110
6: Haas – 109
7: VCARB – 90
8: Williams – 43
9: Kick Sauber – 11
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