I love Formula 1. The reason I started to love F1 was because of my younger brother who loves cars. If you do not know what F1 is, it is the highest class of international motor sport for single seater drivers. Where they drive up to 200 miles per hour and their pit stops are around 2 seconds. Each team has a sponsor and a budget to build the best car they can to try and win the constructors championship. There are 10 teams and each team has two drivers who all fight for the drivers championship. The teams are Mclaren, Red Bull Racing, Ferrari, Mercedes, Aston Martin, Red Bull Visa, Haas, Williams, Alpine, and Kick Sauber. The drivers for Mclaren are Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. Red Bull´s drivers are Max Verstappen; the current 3 time world champion and Sergio Perez. Ferrari’s drivers are Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz. The drivers for Mercedes are Lewis Hamilton and George Russell. Aston Martin´s drivers are Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll. The drivers for RB Visa are Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo. The drivers for Haas are Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen. Williams´s drivers are Alexander Albon and Franco Colapinto. The drivers for Alpine are Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon. Finally the drivers for Sauber are Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu. My favorite drivers are George Russell and Charles Leclerc. The first race I ever watched was a race where Russell crashed. I felt so bad for him and every race after I was always rooting for him and he slowly became my favorite driver. The reason I started to love Leclerc was because of his backstory. His dad died before he made it to F1 and he told his dad on his deathbed that he made it to F1 and signed with Ferrari. That was a lie at the time but it soon was not. Shortly after his dad´s death he signed with Ferrari. Leclerc worked so hard to be where he is today and that’s why he is my second favorite driver. This season Leclerc won his home race in the city he grew up in, which is Monaco. Leclerc has had the chance before to win there but every time he would crash before he won but that was not the case this year. He broke the curse everyone claimed he had. This season has been the best season in a long time in F1. The last couple years Verstappen and Red Bull have had dominance and last year only two drivers beat Verstappen, one being his teammate; Perez. This year there is no Red bull and Verstappen dominance. There has been seven different race winners so far; Verstappen, Sainz, Norris, Russell, Hamilton, Leclerc, and Piastri. Five of them have won multiple races this season. There is a battle for world champion as Verstappen´s car keeps declining. Norris and Verstappen are the ones currently fighting it out in first and second of the drivers championship but who knows what could happen in the rest of this season.
My Relationship With Formula 1
Kayla VanderLinden, Staff Writer
September 29, 2024
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Kayla VanderLinden, Staff Writer
I’m Kayla VanderLinden. I am a sophomore at PCM. This is my second semester of journalism because last year I could only be in journalism for one semester. I am on the PCM dance team, and I’m on the golf team. I am also in DECA for the first time. My goals for this year, like always, are to get all A's and to improve in everything I do. The reason I joined journalism is because I love to write and tell stories. I'm excited to see how my first full year goes.