F1: drivers, single-seaters, TV broadcast, calendar… everything you need to know about the 2024 Formula 1 season which starts this Saturday

La Mercedes de Lewis Hamilton devant une Alpine lors des tests de pré-saison le 22 février 2024. HOCH ZWEI – Hoch Zwei Photoagency

This Saturday, March 2, the new Formula 1 season will begin. Discover the liveries of the single-seaters, the drivers on the grid, but also the calendar for the year 2024.

Back! After a year 2023 dominated by the Dutchman Max Verstappen, the Formula 1 championship resumes this Saturday for the first Grand Prix of the year, which will be held in Bahrain, on the Sakhir circuit. Teams, calendar, TV broadcast, drivers… Midi Libre takes stock of the 2024 season.

Teams, pilots, liveries…

If the resumption of the championship is expected and promises to be crazy, there are few changes to the grid. Thus, for this year 2024, there will still be 10 teams, which will run the 20 drivers unchanged from the previous season.

Red Bull : Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez; Mercedes-AMG Petronas: Lewis Hamilton and George Russell Scuderia Ferrari: Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz; McLaren  : Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris; Aston Martin Amarco: Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll; BWT Alpine: the two Frenchmen Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly; Williams Racing : Alexander Albon and Logan Sargeant; Racing Bulls (formerly Alpha Tauri) : Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda; Stake Sauber (formerly Alfa Romeo) : Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu; Haas: Kevin Magnussen and Nicolas Hülkenberg.

Calendar and distribution

The season which begins this Saturday in Bahrain will be the longest in history. It consists of 24 Grands Prix, with 6 sprint races around the world. We will particularly note the return of the competition in China, from next April. Here are the dates:

To see if Red Bull will crush its competitors again, or if Lewis Hamilton will win another world title alongside Mercedes before going to Ferrari next year, you will have to watch& ;nbsp;Channel +. The channel has held the TV rights to this sport (and those of Moto GP as well) since 2013.

The team will be made up of journalists Pauline Sanzey, Margot Laffite, Naomi Schiff and Charlotte Gabas, in addition to the channel's F1 editor-in-chief Laurent Dupin, accompanied as always by Franck Montagny. On commentary, still Julien Fébreau and Jacques Villeneuve, but Romain Grosjean will also be present in the cabin for certain GPs.

Thus, the entire season, that is to say from free practice 1 to the podiums via qualifying, the GP and without forgetting the debrief, is to be continued on the French private channel. Here are the times to watch the first Grand Prix of the season this weekend:

"See you at the first corner!"

Pre-season testing is complete. The drivers were able to drive for 24 hours over 3 days to test their new car for the season, and see if the engineers' winter work paid off. If the 100% French school, namely Alpine and its two drivers, seems to still be in difficulty, Red Bull once again appears to be in good shape with its pontoon modifications taken from Mercedes last year.

On the eve of the start of the season, the pressure is at its peak. So as a certain Julien Fébreau would say: "Turn up the volume, and go to the first corner !&quot ;.