2024 F1 standings

After locking out the front row, McLaren’s task of sealing the championship looked straightforward, until Oscar Piastri was dropped to the back of the grid after a Turn 1 incident with Max Verstappen. The pressure, then, was all on Norris to hold his lead at the front and he did just that, driving the perfect race to secure the championship for his team.

Carlos Sainz Jr. finished second in his final race with Ferrari, with Leclerc rising from 19^th on the grid – including gaining 11 places on the opening lap, to join his team-mate on the podium in third. Ultimately, a 21-point gap was just too much for the Scuderia to make up.

Starting 16^th in his final race with the Silver Arrows, Lewis Hamilton also put on a vintage drive to rise to fourth, secured with a spectacular pass on George Russell on the final lap and relegating his team-mate to fifth. Drivers’ champion Verstappen finished sixth, picking up a ten-second stop-go penalty for his incident with Piastri.

Pierre Gasly ended a remarkable 2024 season where he cost his team nothing in repairs with a seventh-place finish, securing Alpine that all-important sixth place in the constructors’ standings and beating out his Haas rival in the process – Nico Hülkenberg finished in eighth.

The final points of 2024 were awarded to Fernando Alonso for Aston Martin in ninth, and Piastri, who – after receiving a ten-second penalty of his own after a clash with Franco Colapinto – recovered best he could to add an extra point to the McLaren title-winning haul.

2024 F1 drivers' standings

2024 F1 constructors' standings

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