Changes: Formula One 2021 Season (Jaa555)

Latest revision as of 10:39, 11 March 2021

The 2021 FIA Formula One World Championship is a motor racing championship for Formula One cars which will be the 72nd running of the Formula One World Championship. It is recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of international motorsport, as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. The championship is due to be contested over a series of races, or Grands Prix, held around the world. Drivers and teams are scheduled to compete for the titles of World Drivers' Champion and World Constructors' Champion respectively.

The 2021 championship is due to introduce significant changes to the regulations, including the sport's governance and the sporting rules. Changes to the technical regulations were planned, but these were delayed in March 2020 in response to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. These rule changes will instead be introduced in 2022.

The championship is due to introduce a budget cap, with teams limited to spending a maximum of $145 million per year. Teams will be required to use more commercially available materials and to submit their annual expenditure. Some teams argued to further reduce the budget cap to $100 million, citing concerns that the long-term financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the future of as many as four teams. Formula One managing director Ross Brawn stated that the sport's intention is to reduce the budget cap further in the coming years.

Teams and Drivers

Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Tyre	Driver
Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team	Mercedes	W12	Pirelli	#44 Lewis Hamilton #77 Valtteri Bottas
Red Bull Racing Honda	Honda	RB16B	Pirelli	#11 Sergio Perez #33 Max Verstappen
McLaren Racing Mercedes	Mercedes	MCL35M	Pirelli	#3 Daniel Ricciardo #4 Lando Norris
Aston Martin Cognizant F1 Team	Mercedes	AM001	Pirelli	#5 Sebastian Vettel #18 Lance Stroll
Alpine F1 Team	Renault	A521	Pirelli	#14 Fernando Alonso #31 Esteban Ocon
Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow	Ferrari	SF-21	Pirelli	#16 Charles Leclerc #55 Carlos Sainz
Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda	Hobda	AT02	Pirelli	#10 Pierre Gasly #22 Yuki Tsunoda
Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN	Ferrari	C41	Pirelli	#7 Kimi Räikkönen #99 Antonio Giovinazzi
Haas F1 Team	Ferrari	VF-21	Pirelli	#9 Nikita Mazepin #47 Mick Schumacher
Williams Racing	Mercedes	FW43B	Pirelli	#6 Nicholas Latifi #63 George Russell

Teams Changes

McLaren moved back to Mecedes power, Racing Point became Aston Martin and Reanult became Alpine.

Driver Changes

Ricciardo moves from Renault to McLaren.
Sainz moves from McLaren to Ferrari.
Vettel moves from Ferrari to Aston Martin.
Perez moves from Aston Martin to Red Bull.
Albon was moved to test driver.
Alonso singned with Alpine.
Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen have retired.
Kvyat left AlphaTauri.
Tsunoda singed with AlphaTauri.
Mazepin and Schumacher singed with Haas.

Season Review

Bahrain:

Mercedes dominated the hole weekend and Hamilton took pole with a lap time of 1.27,847 followed by Bottas in P2 with a lap time of 1.27,912. Verstappen took P3 with 1.27,926.

In the start Hamilton build a good lead over Verstappen who had gotten past Bottas at the start.

Hamilton and Verstappen came in on lap 14 to take another set of softs. Bottas and Vettel who was in P5 after the start came in on lap 15 to take mediums. Then Perez came in on lap 19 to take hards.

Bottas retired in the pits with engine issues on lap 21 this caused all Mercedes powered cars to be turned down on power.

Verstappen came in on lap 33 to take the mediums with Hamilton following on lap 35. This gave lead of 8.3seconds to Perez who was on 1-stop strategy.

On lap 49 Hamilton overtook Perez for the lead and later on lap 53 Verstappen also overtook him. However Perez was able to get to the end with the hard tyres and took P3 over Lando Norris in P4 just 2,8 seconds behind.

Hamilton won by 7 seconds over Verstappen.

Thanks to the Mercedes powered cars being turned down on power the Alpines of Alonso and Ocon took P5 and P6 with Aston Martins in P7 and P8. The top 10 was complited by the AlphaTauri cars in P9 and P10.

Fernando Alonso was driver of the day.

Emilia-Romagna:

Hamilton took pole with 1.13,979. Verstappen was on P2 with 1.14,103 and Bottas on P3 with 1.14,190

Hamilton, Verstappen and Bottas kept their positions at the start but Leclerc got past Perez to take P4

Verstappen came in on lap 20 to take hards, Hamilton and Bottas followed on lap 22 but because Hamiltons pit stop was over 5 seconds Verstappen took the lead.

Tsunoda crashed on lap 24 and safety car came out, this helped Alonso who had missed out of Q3 and started with mediums, he hadn't made his pit stop yet and was able to pit under SC.

After the safety car Hamilton started his attack on Verstappen who was able to hold his ground and took P1

Hamilton finished in P2, Bottas P3 and fastest lap, Alonso P4, Perez P5, Leclerc was P6, Vettel 7th, Sainz 8th, Ricciardo P9 and Ocon compliting the top 10 in P10

Alonso was the driver of the day with 59% of the votes.

Portugal:

Bottas took pole with Hamilton in P2 and Verstappen in P3.

Bottas and Hamilton got away well but Verstappen was in trobule after being overtaken by Sainz and and Perez.

In lap 6 Verstappen was out due to ERS problem. This caused a full SC period.

First driver in the top 7 to come in was stroll who came in on lap 24 to take hards. He was soon followed by his teammate and Ocon on lap 25. Vettel took hards while Ocon took mediums.

Leclerc pitted from p4 on lap 26 to take hards. Sainz came in on lap 27 to take hards.

Bottas came in on lap 36 to take hards, Hamilton did the same on lap 39.

Perez stayed out until lap 44 when he came in to take softs.

Hamilton won by 17.2 seconds over Bottas In 2nd who was 3.4seconds ahead of Perez in 3rd who also took the fastest lap.

Leclerc finished in P4 with Vettel taking P5, Ocon was 6th, Ricciardo 7th, Sainz 8th, Gasly 9th and Stroll 10th.

Leclerc was the driver of the day with 34% of the votes.

Spain:

Spanish gp was pretty normal with Hamilton taking Pole win and the fastest lap

Verstappen was 2nd, Bottas 3rd, Vettel was a brilliant 4th, Perez 5th, Alonso 6th, Sainz 7th, Stroll 8th, Nortis 9th and Ricciardo 10th.

Vettel was the driver of the day.

Monaco:

Hamilton took pole again, Bottas 2nd and Verstappen in P3.

At the start Hamilton got away well but Bottas got a slow start and then Verstappen tried heroics into Sainte-Devote. Crashing him and Bottas out of the race, Also Vettel had his front wing cut out at the mess and he had to bit, so did Norris.

Safety car came in on lap 7 leaving Hamilton leading from Perez in P2 and Leclerc in P3.

Stroll crashed on lap 17 causing VSC, Perez and Tsunoda were the only ones to pit under it, they took hards but the VSC ended before they got out from the pits leaving Perez in 7th and Tsunoda last.

After Mazepins and Giovinazzis crash in lap 23 the SC came out, but when it came out Hamilton had already passed the pit entry meaning that the Ferraris in P2 and P3 were able to pit for hards under SC and gained huge aventage, almost the whole grid made pit stops under the SC exept Hamilton who would fall all the way to P11 and Perez and Tsunoda who had made their stops.

SC left after lap 26 leaving Hamilton on the lead trying to gain some time to make his pit stop, Perez was P2 followed by two Ferrari cars.

Hamilton finally pitted on lap 34 to take hards after starting on mediums, he fell to P6 after his pit stop.

For the remaining 33 laps Hamilton was stetting fastest lap after fastest lap. He overtook Ricciardo on lap 41 to take P5, then Tsunoda on lap 49. Then he started chasing Carlos Sainz who was in P3.

George Russel retired in the pits on lap 55 due to gearbox problem.

Meanwhile in front Leclerc started to catch Perez who had blistering in his front left tyre.

On lap 59 Hamilton tried to overtake Sainz on the outside in rascasse, damaging his front wing a bit but he did not have to make extra pit stop, meanwhile Sainz escaped undamaged.

In the final laps Ricciardo was all over Tsunoda trying to overtake him for P5 but the Japanese driver held his ground to keep Ricciardo behind.

At the end Perez was able to make the tyres last for whole race and he took the 2nd victory in his career with local hero Charles Leclerc being 3.6 seconds behind in P2 and Carlos Sainz in 3rd taking his frist podium with Ferrari.

Hamilton took P4 with Tsunoda taking a brilliant 5th in the AlphaTauri, Ricciardo close behind in P6, Ocon was 7th, Norris 8th, Gasly 9th and Raikkonen manging to get P10.

Tsunoda was the driver of the day with 31% of the votes.

#	Race	Date	Pole	Fastest lap	Winner	Constructor	Safety cars
1	Bahrain GP	Mar 28th	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	0
2	Emilia Romagna GP	Apr 18th	Lewis Hamilton	Valtteri Bottas	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1
3	Portugese GP	May 2nd	Valtteri Bottas	Sergio Perez	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	2
4	Spanish GP	May 9th	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	0
5	Monaco GP	May 23rd	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	3
6	Azerbaijan GP	Jun 6th	Lewis Hamilton	Lando Norris	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	0
7	Canadian GP	Jun 13th	Valtteri Bottas	Lewis Hamilton	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	2
8	French GP	Jun 27th	Lewis Hamilton	Max Verstappen	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	2
9	Austrian GP	Jul 4th	Max Verstappen	Lando Norris	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	0
10	British GP	Jul 18	Valtteri Bottas	Daniel Ricciardo	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1
11	Hungarian GP	Aug 1st	Lewis Hamilton	Lance Stroll	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	1
12	Belgian GP	Aug 27th	Lewis Hamilton	Sebastian Vettel	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	4
13	Dutch GP	Sep 5th	Sergio Perez	Max Verstappen	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	0
14	Italian GP	Sep 12nd	Valtteri Bottas	Yuki Tsunoda	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	0
15	Russian GP	Sep 26th	Lewis Hamilton	Max Verstappen	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	0
16	Singapore GP	Oct 3rd	Max Verstappen	Lewis Hamilton	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	2
17	Japanese GP	Oct 10th	Lewis Hamilton	Sergio Perez	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1
18	U.S GP	Oct 24th	Valtteri Bottas	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	0
19	Mexican GP	Oct 31st	Lewis Hamilton	Max Verstappen	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	1
20	Brazil GP	Nov 7th	Max Verstappen	Carlos Sainz	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1
21	Australian GP	Nov 21st	Valtteri Bottas	Valtteri Bottas	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	0
22	Saudi Arabia GP	Dec 5th	Sergio Perez	Daniel Ricciardo	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	1
22	Abu Dhabi GP	Nov 20	Valtteri Bottas	Max Verstappen	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1

Resuts

Team Standings

1.Mercedes 699pts

2.Red Bull 639pts

3.Mclaren 284pts

4.Aston Martin 249pts

5.Ferrari 200pts

6.Alpine 151pts

7.AlphaTauri 66pts

8.Williams 11pts

9.Alfa Romeo 2pts

10.HAAS 0pts

Drivers standings

Pos

Driver

BAH

EMR

POR

ESP

MON

AZE

CAN

FRA

AUT

GBR

HUN

BEL

NET

ITA

RUS

SIN

JPN

USA

MEX

BRA

AUS

SDA

ABD

PTS

1.

HAM

1st*

2nd

1st

1st*

4th*

2nd

4th*

3rd

5th

1st

3rd

DNF

4th

1st

2nd*

3rd

1st*

2nd

5th

1st

4th

1st

391

2.

VER

2nd

1st

DNF

2nd

DNF

4th

6th

1st*

1st

5th

2nd

DNF

1st*

6th

3rd*

1st

3rd

3rd*

1st

4th

3rd

3rd*

359

3.

BOT

DNF

3rd*

2nd

3rd

DNF

1st

2nd

4th

3rd

2nd

5th

8th

5th

2nd

5th

2nd

4th*

4th

DNF

2nd*

2nd

308

4.

PER

3rd

5th

3rd*

5th

1st

5th

DNF

8th

2nd

4th

8th

3rd

2nd

7th

5th

4th

4th*

5th

1st

3rd

1st

5th

280

5.

VET

7th

5th

4th

12th

8th

5th

DNF

3rd

1st

4th*

12th

8th

9th

3rd

10th

7th

13th

8th

7th

6th

165

6.

RIC

11th

9th

7th

10th

6th

3rd

1st

13th

8th

6th*

10th

DNF

6th

4th

10th

9th

2nd

10th

DNF

5th

5th*

8th

150

7.

NOR

4th

12th

13th

9th

8th

7th*

8th

11th

4th*

11th

DNF

1st

9th

3rd

DNF

6th

8th

7th

4th

11th

8th

4th

134

8.

LEC

13th

6th

4th

15th

2nd

9th

12th

6th

9th

7th

6th

3rd

14th

7th

8th

DNF

12th

9th

6th

9th

12th

10th

110

9.

ALO

5th

4th

11th

6th

11th

DNF

7th

DNF

12th

10th

11th

2nd

7th

9th

8th

7th

DNF

6th

14th

7th

8th

11th

7th

91

10.

SAI

15th

8th

7th

3rd

10th

13th

7th

13th

16th

7th

DNF

8th

16th

12th

11th

5th

10th

12th

2nd*

6th

7th

12th

90

11.

STR

8th

11th

10th

8th

DNF

11th

3rd

2nd

7th

9th

4th*

DNF

16th

5th

14th

DNF

7th

9th

11th

10th

12th

9th

11th

84

12.

OCO

6th

10th

6th

11th

7th

DNF

10th

12th

6th

8th

DNF

9th

10th

13th

6th

13th

11th

DNF

6th

9th

DNF

10th

9th

60

13.

GAS

9th

14th

9th

12th

9th

6th

9th

14th

10th

DNF

9th

DNF

17th

12th

10th

11th

6th

14th

5th

11th

DNF

15th

13th

38

14.

TSU

10th

DNF

19th

13th

5th

16th

DNF

9th

14th

12th

13th

5th

15th

10th*

DNF

9th

13th

16th

18th

15th

10th

DNF

17th

28

15.

RUS

12th

13th

16th

17th

DNF

13th

11th

15th

11th

13th

DNF

7th

13th

11th

18th

14th

11th

8th

14th

13th

15th

10

16.

RAI

17th

15th

16th

10th

15th

17th

DNF

16th

18th

15th

10th

20th

17th

16th

DNF

16th

17th

19th

16th

14th

16th

14th

2

17.

LAT

19th

16th

12th

14th

16th

14th

10th

1

18.

GIO

DNF

0

19.

SCH

0

20.

MAZ

DNF

DNS

0

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 Leclerc was the driver of the day with 34% of the votes.
+=== Spain: ===
+Spanish gp was pretty normal with Hamilton taking Pole win and the fastest lap
+Verstappen was 2nd, Bottas 3rd, Vettel was a brilliant 4th, Perez 5th, Alonso 6th, Sainz 7th, Stroll 8th, Nortis 9th and Ricciardo 10th.
+Vettel was the driver of the day.
+=== Monaco: ===
+Hamilton took pole again, Bottas 2nd and Verstappen in P3.
+At the start Hamilton got away well but Bottas got a slow start and then Verstappen tried heroics into Sainte-Devote. Crashing him and Bottas out of the race, Also Vettel had his front wing cut out at the mess and he had to bit, so did Norris.
+Safety car came in on lap 7 leaving Hamilton leading from Perez in P2 and Leclerc in P3.
+Stroll crashed on lap 17 causing VSC, Perez and Tsunoda were the only ones to pit under it, they took hards but the VSC ended before they got out from the pits leaving Perez in 7th and Tsunoda last.
+After Mazepins and Giovinazzis crash in lap 23 the SC came out, but when it came out Hamilton had already passed the pit entry meaning that the Ferraris in P2 and P3 were able to pit for hards under SC and gained huge aventage, almost the whole grid made pit stops under the SC exept Hamilton who would fall all the way to P11 and Perez and Tsunoda who had made their stops.
+SC left after lap 26 leaving Hamilton on the lead trying to gain some time to make his pit stop, Perez was P2 followed by two Ferrari cars.
+Hamilton finally pitted on lap 34 to take hards after starting on mediums, he fell to P6 after his pit stop.
+For the remaining 33 laps Hamilton was stetting fastest lap after fastest lap. He overtook Ricciardo on lap 41 to take P5, then Tsunoda on lap 49. Then he started chasing Carlos Sainz who was in P3.
+George Russel retired in the pits on lap 55 due to gearbox problem.
+Meanwhile in front Leclerc started to catch Perez who had blistering in his front left tyre.
+On lap 59 Hamilton tried to overtake Sainz on the outside in rascasse, damaging his front wing a bit but he did not have to make extra pit stop, meanwhile Sainz escaped undamaged.
+In the final laps Ricciardo was all over Tsunoda trying to overtake him for P5 but the Japanese driver held his ground to keep Ricciardo behind.
+At the end Perez was able to make the tyres last for whole race and he took the 2nd victory in his career with local hero Charles Leclerc being 3.6 seconds behind in P2 and Carlos Sainz in 3rd taking his frist podium with Ferrari.
+Hamilton took P4 with Tsunoda taking a brilliant 5th in the AlphaTauri, Ricciardo close behind in P6, Ocon was 7th, Norris 8th, Gasly 9th and Raikkonen manging to get P10.
+Tsunoda was the driver of the day with 31% of the votes.
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