WINNERS
MERCEDES — Winners of each titles for an unprecedented seventh 12 months in a row, Mercedes handed Williams within the record of all-time race winners with 115. The workforce gained 13 of the races and began all however two on pole.
LEWIS HAMILTON — The Briton turned the most successful Formula One driver of all time with a report 95 race wins and a seventh championship that equalled Ferrari great Michael Schumacher’s record haul. He gained 11 of the races and beat workforce mate and general runner-up Valtteri Bottas by 124 factors.
HONDA — The one engine producer other than Mercedes to win races, Honda powered Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen to 2 wins together with Sunday’s at Yas Marina and in addition Pierre Gasly to an emotional victory at Monza for AlphaTauri.
SERGIO PEREZ — The Mexican gained in Bahrain on his a hundred and ninetieth begin, changing into his nation’s first race winner in 50 years and handing Racing Level a primary success underneath that identify. He completed fourth general in a high quality 12 months for a driver proven the door by his workforce and with no seat secured for 2021.
PIERRE GASLY — a standout season for the Frenchman who has rebuilt his popularity at AlphaTauri after being dropped by sister workforce Pink Bull. His win at Monza, the primary French winner since Olivier Panis in 1996, was a spotlight of the season.
MCLAREN — Third general, their highest place since 2012. The previous champions made regular progress of their final season with Renault earlier than coming into a brand new section with Mercedes energy.
FORMULA 1 — Efficiently staged a season at a time of pandemic, reviving races that had fallen off the calendar and inventing some new ones. Security additionally triumphed, with Frenchman Romain Grosjean strolling away from a fiery crash that break up his automobile in two in Bahrain.
LOSERS
Ferrari didn’t win a race within the 2020 F1 season. (File)
FERRARI — The game’s oldest and most profitable workforce suffered their worst season since 1980, after they completed tenth general. Ferrari didn’t win a race and ended up a distant sixth after struggling a drop in engine efficiency. Departing Sebastian Vettel had a lacklustre 12 months however workforce mate Charles Leclerc a minimum of supplied hope for the longer term.
WILLIAMS — The previous champions failed to attain for the primary time for the reason that Nineteen Seventies. The workforce was bought in August and the founding household departed. George Russell, though a Williams driver, ranks as a winner for his distinctive efficiency at Mercedes as stand-in for COVID-hit Hamilton.
VALTTERI BOTTAS — Being Hamilton’s workforce mate is a thankless job however Bottas ended up additional away than ever. He gained two races however the factors hole to Hamilton was a chasm.
HAAS — One other powerful 12 months for the U.S.-owned workforce, who completed ninth and cleared out each their drivers Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean.
RACING POINT — Regardless of Perez’s stirring win, the Canadian-owned workforce missed probabilities and had been docked 15 factors for breaking the principles with a automobile carefully modelled on final 12 months’s Mercedes. They completed fourth in the end, seven factors behind McLaren.
CROWDS — The pandemic meant most races had been staged with out crowds. The spotlight races of Monaco and Singapore had been cancelled solely together with all races in Asia and the Americas. Vietnam’s deliberate debut by no means occurred.
