On Sportweek the guide to the 2024 F1 World Championship

A nine-month F1 World Championship begins on Saturday in Bahrain, the longest ever with 24 Grands Prix and 6 sprint races, and like every year Sportweek dedicates a special monograph to it: you can always find it on newsstands on Saturday with the Gazzetta dello Sports at the price of 2.20 euros. Inside, the files of all the teams and drivers, the calendar, the cars, the news, the circuits, the records, the roll of honor and much more. It is a particular World Championship, right from the start given that in the first two weekends (after Bahrain there is Saudi Arabia) it will be raced on a Saturday due to Ramadan. Particular above all for Ferrari and for Lewis Hamilton: the seven-time world champion, still at the wheel of Mercedes, has promised himself to the Cavallino from 2025. He will join Charles Leclerc in a dream team that already makes Ferrari fans dream. But again for this season the Monegasque’s partner is Carlos Sainz, in a tangle of unknowns that will test everyone’s resilience. And everyone, in one way or another, is hunting for Max Verstappen, the Dutch winner of the last 3 World Championships with his Red Bull, the last one coming first 19 times out of 22 GPs. The general hope is that this time there is greater balance, with Ferrari giving excellent signals in this sense in the tests.

the double interview

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We couldn’t help but dedicate the opening report of this F.1 2024 Special to the red national team, so our magazine offers you a double interview with the two Ferrari drivers, Charles&Carlos, in our usual style focused a lot on the personal: their tastes, alternative sports, holidays, dishes, favorite actors and films, music, what excites them, the champions who inspire them, the places of their heart… You will thus discover that Sainz admires Nadal more than anyone else and not misses a Real Madrid match, while Leclerc has always had a soft spot for Senna and reveals: “Racing in Monte Carlo, on the roads I took on the bus as a child to go to school, is something very, very special for me.”

in maranello

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We then take you inside the SF-24 to reveal the function of all the controls on the flywheel of the Maranello single-seater. And with the poster of Verstappen with his record numbers you will find the 10 reasons for this season explained, which has many other protagonists starting from the determination of the 42-year-old Fernando Alonso up to the ambitions of Lando Norris. But this entire issue of Sportweek is presented in a motoring key: trends, fashion, our advice, the Icon dedicated to the great John Surtees and the story of a day in Maranello where Ferrari was born, in the factory where every year they assemble 13 thousand supercars and the spirit of the old Drake still lingers. In short, a journey into the myth.