Mike Cantillon (Williams FW07C) and Oliver Webb (Hesketh 308) became the first winners of the 2024 historic F1 season, as the Irishman and Briton each grabbed a victory at Paul Ricard, all under the watchful eye of a star-studded roll of honour that included Alain Prost, Gerhard Berger and Jean Alesi. In all, some 35,000 spectators gathered at an event that carried the same festive vibe as the Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort.

With the exception of the southern region of the continent, much of Africa was dispirited for years, without a national single-seater category. However, at the beginning of the seventies, one country managed to overcome this barrier: Morocco. For some years, between the end of the sixties through the early seventies, the North African nation managed to include Formula 3, the base category of international single-seater motorsport, in its national race calendar. Morocco, one of the few countries on the continent with a tradition in F1, was re-emerging on the international scene in a surprising and unexpected way.