The 2024 F1 half-term driver grades
Alongside the regular Formula 1 driver ratings after each grand prix, the summer break is the ideal time to assess each member of the 2024 grid with half-term grades. So far there has been a handful of star performers, but one or two need to get their act together when F1 resumes after the summer holidays
Max Verstappen: A
Championship position: 1st
Verstappen's early season form hinted at a 2023 repeat - but the summer rounds have generated a different story
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Jake Boxall-Legge Autosport’s Technical Editor. Having studied Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at the University of Hertfordshire, West Country-born Jake's original ambition was to design racing cars. During a year between studies in which he accidentally rekindled a love of writing, he took up a Master's in Motorsport Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Halfway through his master's year, he was offered a place on the Autosport Academy, conducting occasional freelance duties before becoming the press officer for Formula 2 and GP3 in 2018. Autosport offered him a return to the fold later that year to serve as its Technical Editor. His voice appears on a number of videos and podcasts, and can often be found writing about terrible Formula 1 cars in excruciating detail. In his spare time, Jake enjoys baking and blames his failure to make it past the Great British Bake-Off interviews on his tenuous grasp on choux pastry. His dream is to open a brunch cafe - and his willingness to make outrageous puns in inappropriate situations has earned him the contempt of his colleagues.
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