After 23 race weekends could not decide matters, the 2024 Formula 1 Constructors’ Championship comes down to the final weekend of the season, the year-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. McLaren entered last weekend with a chance to clinch the title at the Qatar Grand Prix and was in a position to do so midway through the main event on Sunday,

However, it was the FIA's decision making that has dominated the headlines after the Qatar GP, where Lando Norris was slammed with a huge penalty and Lewis Hamilton suffered a puncture after running over a piece of debris.

We’ll get to yesterday’s Qatar GP in a second, but first … We were all set to cover McLaren’s first team championship in 26 years yesterday (it needed to outscore Ferrari by 15 points in the GP to clinch).