Has anyone caught Red Bull? 20 questions for the 2024 Formula 1 season

Max Verstappen and Red Bull’s domination of the 2023 Formula 1 season left their rivals reeling.

But Red Bull enter the new season from a position of total strength and clearly haven’t held back with their RB20, which features several surprising changes.

Are the Milton Keynes team about to make another assault on the record books? Or has one or more of their rivals pulled off the kind of leap forward McLaren and Aston Martin made last year and propelled themselves into contention?

Testing is over, the teams are ready for their earlier-than-usual Saturday start to the season, and all that’s left is to make our traditional pre-season predictions. Share your answers to these 20 questions in the comments:

1. How many different teams will win races over the course of the 2024 F1 season?

2. Who will be the first driver to retire from a race during 2024?

3. How many grands prix will Red Bull win?

4. What will be the biggest political story during 2024?

5. Who will have the most track limits infringements?

6. How many grands prix will be red-flagged this year?

7. What will Alpine’s best result in a grand prix be?

8. Who will score more points: Daniel Ricciardo or Oscar Piastri?

9. Who will score more points: Mercedes or Ferrari?

10. Will all 20 drivers who start the Bahrain Grand Prix race in Abu Dhabi?

11. Who will win the Monaco Grand Prix?

12. Who will set the most pole positions?

13. Which driver will suffer the most retirements during 2024?

14. Which team will make the biggest improvement on its 2023 points haul?

15. Where will Carlos Sainz Jnr drive next year?

16. Who will Red Bull sign as Max Verstappen’s team mate for 2025?

17. Who will Mercedes hire to take Lewis Hamilton’s seat for 2025?

18. At which round will the drivers’ championship be decided?

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Over to you

Last year our readers had little difficulty predicting Max Verstappen and Red Bull would win the two championships, though quite a few of you still had faith in Ferrari and Mercedes to come out ahead. But after Red Bull’s crushing performance last year, does anyone expect a closer contest?

Expectations were also high 12 months ago that Aston Martin would be the most-improved team of the season, which they clearly were. However many also predicted Nyck de Vries would be the top-scoring rookie driver, which didn’t come to pass as Red Bull dropped him before the season was half-done.