IT’S RACE WEEK: 6 storylines we’re excited about ahead of the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

For a driver in a automobile outdoors the highest 5 within the constructors’ championship, a spot within the prime ten of the drivers’ standings comes with added satisfaction, and that battle is basically between Nico Hulkenberg and Pierre Gasly. The pair are separated by only one level – in Hulkenberg’s favour – however don’t rule out Yuki Tsunoda from six factors behind Gasly both.

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Unsure futures

No drivers are formally retiring at this stage of their careers, however for a lot of this weekend is ready to be their last Components 1 begin for the foreseeable future. With various rookies becoming a member of the grid subsequent season, Valtteri Bottas, Kevin Magnussen and Zhou Guanyu are all with out race seats for 2025, whereas Franco Colapinto can also be coming to the tip of his interim spell racing for Williams.

Of that quartet, Colapinto has put himself within the body to doubtlessly be picked up by Pink Bull ought to there be a change of line-up throughout the 2 groups they personal, however he’s at the moment attributable to drop off the grid.

Technically, Liam Lawson additionally doesn’t have his future confirmed, with RB solely having said he would drive till the tip of this season when he changed Daniel Ricciardo. The expectation is he’ll at the very least stay with the crew in 2025, if he would not get a shot within the Pink Bull ought to Sergio Perez get replaced.

Perez at the moment has a contract for the subsequent two seasons however Pink Bull have communicated they are going to be presenting potential different choices to their shareholders after this weekend’s race, so a change could possibly be made following a disappointing season for the 34-year-old.