Calendar TRANSFERS:
- China returns for the first time since 2019, after they finally get over themselves.
- Emilia Romagna remains on the calendar after losing the 2023 round to floods.

Grand Prix Circuit Date
Bahrain Sakhir March 2
Saudi Arabia Jeddah March 9
Australia Melbourne March 24
Japan Suzuka April 7
China Shanghai April 21
Miami Miami Gardens May 5
Emilia Romagna Imola May 19
Monaco Monaco May 26
Spain Barcelona-Catalunya June 4
Canada Montreal June 18
Austria Spielberg June 30
Great Britain Silverstone July 7
Hungary Hungaroring July 21
Belgium Spa-Francorchamps July 28
Netherlands Zandvoort August 25
Italy Monza September 1
Azerbaijan Baku September 15
Singapore Marina Bay September 22
United States Austin October 20
Mexico City Mexico City October 27
São Paulo Interlagos November 3
Las Vegas Las Vegas November 23
Qatar Lusail December 1
Abu Dhabi Yas Marina December 8

Sprint rounds:
- China, Miami, Austria, United States, São Paulo and Qatar. Sprint qualifying will take place on Friday afternoons after free practice, with the Sprint race being the first track action on Saturday morning (Grand Prix qualifying reverts to its traditional Saturday afternoon slot).

Team TRANSFERS:
No new teams of course, closed shop and all. But we have a couple of exciting re-namings!
- Sauber ended their partnership with Alfa Romeo and renamed to Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber in what for a very short time was the worst team name ever, until...
- Red Bull announced the AlphaTauri name is no more and the sister team will now be known as the Visa Cash App RB F1 Team.

Driver TRANSFERS:
- Not a sausage. Worse than football.

Constructor Car Engine Drivers
Alpine A524 Renault (10) Pierre Gasly
(31) Esteban Ocon
Aston Martin AMR24 Mercedes (14) Fernando Alonso
(18) Lance Stroll
Ferrari SF-24 Ferrari (16) Charles Leclerc
(55) Carlos Sainz Jr.
Haas VF-24 Ferrari (20) Kevin Magnussen
(27) Nico Hülkenberg
Sauber C44 Ferrari (24) Guanyu Zhou
(77) Valtteri Bottas
McLaren MCL38 Mercedes (4) Lando Norris
(81) Oscar Piastri
Mercedes W15 Mercedes (44) Lewis Hamilton
(63) George Russell
RB TBA Honda RBPT (3) Daniel Ricciardo
(22) Yuki Tsunoda
Red Bull RB20 Honda RBPT (1) Max Verstappen
(11) Sergio Perez
Williams FW46 Mercedes (2) Logan Sargeant
(23) Alexander Albon

Technical rule changes:
- Teams are now allowed to install a "scoop" (whatever that is) to the car to aid driver cooling after everyone cooked in Qatar last year.
- The intended tyre blanket ban which was due to be trialled in 2024 has been abandoned after teams argued the tyres are too shit.
- 2026 will see major technical rule changes but teams are prohibited from doing any wind tunnel and CFD works for that during 2024.
- The Pirelli C0 (hardest tyre in the range) has been dropped after being introduced in 2023 but used a grand total of zero times.

Sporting rule changes:
- Right of review request reduced from 14 to 4 days.
- As noted in the calendar section above, the sprint weekend format has been adjusted after widespread criticism.
- DRS will now be available one lap after a race start, safety car restart and red flag restart.
- PU allocation increased from three to four per season for 2024 and 2025.

Testing:
- One pre-season test has been arranged: Bahrain on 21-23 February.