F1 2024 Standings: Red Bull DEMOTED after FIA hit champions with multiple penalties

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Red Bull DEMOTED after FIA hit F1 champions with multiple penalties

Red Bull are running out of time to improve their 2024 championship chances!

Kerry Violet F1 News Editor

F1 editor and journalist covering motorsport since 2024.

Monday 28 October 2024 17:59 Updated: 17:55

Red Bull Formula 1 team have been dealt a significant demotion following their dreadful performance at the 2024 Mexican Grand Prix.

McLaren already toppled the reigning constructors' champions off of the top spot following the Azerbaijan Grand Prix earlier this season, with the papaya outfit now set for their first championship as a team since 1998.

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McLaren's reliable driver pairing of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri had been chipping away at Red Bull's constructors' lead, finally managing to steal it off them following Piastri's Baku victory.

Following what appeared to have been one of Red Bull's worst weekends as a time in the modern history of the sport, star driver Max Verstappen is also at risk of losing his fourth consecutive drivers' championship title, his Mexican GP weekend plagued with FIA drama and a 20-second penalty.

Norris now sits in second just 47 points behind the Dutchman with Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc still in contention down in third.

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It was the performance of Leclerc and his soon-to-be ex-team-mate Carlos Sainz that bolstered the Scuderia's constructors' title chances in Mexico City, Sainz's victory and Leclerc's P3 finish meaning Red Bull have now had second place in the team standings pulled from under them as well.

This demotion can be mostly attributed to the run-ins that Christian Horner's outfit experienced last weekend with the FIA, after Verstappen and his underperforming team-mate Sergio Perez were both handed penalties during the race.

Verstappen still managed to finish P6 but the massive penalty surely denied him the chance to take home more points in what has become a rather single-handed 'team' effort with Perez consistently out of the points, his future in the sport uncertain.

F1 drivers' standings after the 2024 Mexican Grand Prix

Ferrari have overtaken Red Bull in the constructors' standings after Carlos Sainz's Mexican GP victory

F1 Constructors' Standings after the Mexican Grand Prix

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Kerry Violet - F1 News Editor

Having graduated from the University of Sheffield with a 2:1 in Journalism in 2022, Kerry continued her pursuit of finding a full-time position in motorsport through work with the F1 Arcade in London, where she got to meet true fans of the sport and make a live grand prix watch party memorable for them. It was here that she confirmed her dream of combining her background in journalism and love of motorsport, going on to volunteer with the female-led platform Empoword Journalism. Having completed stints as a screen editor and sports editor, Kerry landed her first F1-specific editorial role with GPFans and has thoroughly enjoyed continuing to work closely with the sport ever since. The access GPFans offers Kerry has allowed her to interview big names such as Naomi Schiff and David Coulthard and given her experiences she could only have dreamt of as a young F1 fan.

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