Break of more than four weeks before rush of final six grands prix could be decisive in the tight race for the F1 title

Six meetings remain of the 2024 Formula One season and the race for the world championship will be played out in frenetic fashion with two bouts of triple-headers as Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and McLaren’s Lando Norris go head to head for the title.

The run-in, however, will not begin for three more weeks, a period that could prove decisive as the protagonists work flat out towards this final stretch. For McLaren this will be a period of fine-tuning but for Red Bull there is the altogether more urgent task of finding solutions.