The 2024 System 1 season has come to an finish after the season finale on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, a race received by Lando Norris which sealed McLaren’s first constructors championship since 1998. The worldwide media react to that achievement.
Corriere della Sera
Corriere della Sera appears again on the previous System 1 season after the final Grand Prix of the 12 months. In it, there’s explicit reward for Max Verstappen, who secured his fourth world title in Las Vegas after a difficult 12 months. “His energy, each in driving and character, emerged at occasions when issues have been a multitude in a crew used to successful with ease. Verstappen proved that even a high driver can not dominate and not using a automobile that meets his expectations; however on the identical time, he proved that it takes a champion to make an imperfect single-seater win.”
Norris missed some necessary alternatives, in response to Corriere. “He had the appropriate weapon – the MCL38 – to knock Verstappen off the throne, however he used it poorly too usually. He doesn’t lack expertise, however the psychological resilience remains to be inadequate. He has change into the king of missed alternatives – even when he’s the viceroy of SuperMax.”
The Guardian
The Guardian displays not solely on McLaren’s first constructors’ title in 26 years, but additionally on Lewis Hamilton’s farewell at Mercedes. “The emotional import of the second was writ massive at McLaren however no much less for a visibly moved Hamilton, who completed his profession at Mercedes with an distinctive comeback drive from sixteenth to fourth, bowing out with the identical decided panache that has secured him unprecedented success with the crew,” writes the British newspaper.
The papaya-clad personnel bounced and sang, quaffing champagne with abandon within the storage, gripped by a collective ecstasy they haven’t had an opportunity to take pleasure in since Hamilton received the drivers’ championship for them in 2008, the final title silverware they collected. In Abu Dhabi it fell to Norris to face up when it mattered after what was a tense finale the place he needed to do the job to beat rivals Ferrari on his personal from pole after Piastri was all however faraway from the battle on the primary lap, hit by Max Verstappen.
La Gazzetta dello Sport
Italy’s Gazzetta dello Sport additionally pays consideration to Ferrari, which simply missed out on the constructors’ title regardless of an ideal race by each Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc, who began from P19: “For the Scuderia, the chase, which was already troublesome because of the 21 factors to be made up throughout the race and much more sophisticated by Charles Leclerc’s grid penalty, grew to become much more troublesome. Ardour, nevertheless, was not sufficient. The courageous comeback of Leclerc, who spiritedly conquered a podium that was unthinkable on the eve of the race, and the strong efficiency of Sainz weren’t sufficient: Norris drove a race like an impeccable front-runner, by no means hampered in his actions, and gave McLaren a deserved laurel wreath.”
This text was written in collaboration with Olly Darcy
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