The parallels between Red Bull's current form and the ending of Schumacher's F1 reign
OPINION: Red Bull's explosive start to 2024 is dwindling, as its RB20 machinery appears to have hit its peak to let other F1 teams close in. The combination of stronger rivals and mounting errors rather echoes those at the end of Ferrari's reign 20 years ago...
After a whirlwind opening to its 2024 season, the Formula 1 circus is currently settling into its long-awaited interval period. As it turns out, cramming 14 races into the span of five months requires quite a lot of effort to keep up with; it's not quite the same rate of races compared to 2020's COVID-enforced quick-fire calendar, but it certainly rivals it in travel time.
And the timing of the summer break rather left us at a cliffhanger, with the sort of dramatic licence that pundits espouse to be impossible to script, even though the storylines are probably the first thing that any screenwriter would include.
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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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