2021 Formula One World Championship
| 2021 FIA Formula One World Championship |
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| Drivers' Champion: Max Verstappen Constructors' Champion: Red Bull Racing-RBPT | |||
| Previous: | 2020 | Next: | 2022 |
| Support series: Formula 2 Championship FIA Formula 3 Championship Porsche Supercup W Series | |||
The 2021 Formula One World Championship was the 72nd season of the Formula One World Championship. The motor racing championship is the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars.
Entries
The following constructors and drivers were under contract to compete in the 2021 World Championship. All teams competed with tyres supplied by Pirelli. Each team was required to enter at least two drivers, one for each of the two mandatory cars.
Free practice drivers
Across the season, five drivers drove as a test or third driver in free practice sessions. Callum Ilott and Robert Kubica drove for Alfa Romeo Racing at two and three Grands Prix respectively, while Roy Nissany and Jack Aitken drove for Williams at three Grands Prix and at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, respectively.[12] Zhou Guanyu drove for Alpine at the Austrian Grand Prix.[12]
Team changes
McLaren announced that they would change from using Renault power units to ones built by Mercedes, resuming the McLaren-Mercedes partnership that ran between 1995 and 2014.[28] Racing Point became known as Aston Martin. The name change was brought about by the team's part owner Lawrence Stroll investing in the Aston Martin marque.[29] Renault became known as Alpine, taking on the name of Renault's sportscar brand.[6]
Driver changes
Nikita Mazepin (left) made his Formula One debut with Haas replacing Kevin Magnussen (right), who was Haas's reserve and test driver for the 2021 season.
Four-time World Drivers' Champion Sebastian Vettel left Ferrari at the end of the 2020 Championship after racing with the team for six seasons.[30] Vettel's seat was taken by Carlos Sainz Jr., who had left McLaren.[31] Daniel Ricciardo moved from Renault to McLaren, where he replaced Sainz.[32] Ricciardo was replaced by double World Champion Fernando Alonso, who drove in Alpine's first season, having last raced in 2018 for McLaren.[33]
Vettel moved to Aston Martin, where he replaced Sergio Pérez.[34][35] Pérez, who had previously signed a contract to drive for Aston Martin's predecessor, Racing Point, until 2022,[36] moved to Red Bull Racing where he replaced Alex Albon, who was Red Bull Racing's reserve and test driver for the 2021 season.[37] Pérez became the first driver since Mark Webber in 2007 to join the team without being previously a Red Bull Junior Team member.[38]
Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen, who had raced for Haas since 2016 and 2017 respectively, left the team at the end of 2020.[39] 2020 Formula 2 Champion Mick Schumacher, the son of seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher, took one of the seats at the team[40] while the other was filled by Nikita Mazepin, who finished fifth in the Formula 2 Championship.[41][42]
Yuki Tsunoda, who finished third in 2020 Formula 2 Championship, graduated to Formula One with Scuderia AlphaTauri, replacing Daniil Kvyat, who moved to Alpine as their reserve driver.[43] Tsunoda became the first Japanese Formula One driver since Kamui Kobayashi in 2014.[44]
Mid-season changes
During the Dutch Grand Prix weekend, Kimi Räikkönen tested positive for coronavirus.[45] He was replaced at Alfa Romeo Racing by reserve driver Robert Kubica, who last raced at the 2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, driving for Williams.[46] Räikkönen was also replaced by Kubica at the subsequent Italian Grand Prix.[47]
Nikita Mazepin did not take part in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix due to positive of coronavirus tests. Haas only fielded one car at the event, rather than replacing Mazepin by reserve driver Kevin Magnussen.
Results and standings
Grands Prix
Scoring system
Points for both championships were given to the top ten of each race.[54] One point was given to the driver who did the fastest lap, only if they finished in the top ten of the race.[54] At events where a sprint qualifying session happened, points for both championships were given to the top three finishers in the last sprint qualifying session result.[54]
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| Sprint qualifying[e] | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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World Drivers' Championship standings
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Notes:
- File:Dagger-14-plain.png – Driver did not finish the Grand Prix but was included because he completed more than 90% of the race.
- File:Double-dagger-14-plain.png – Half points were given at the Belgian Grand Prix because less than 75% of the race happened. Fastest laps were not included in the final result.
World Constructors' Championship standings
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Notes:
– Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was included because he completed more than 90% of the race.- File:Double-dagger-14-plain.png – Half points were awarded at the Belgian Grand Prix because less than 75% of race was done. Fastest laps were not included in the points.
- Rows are not related to the drivers: within each team, single Grand Prix standings are categorised only based on the end result of the race (not by total points scored in the event, which includes points given for fastest lap and sprint qualifying).
2021 Formula One World Championship Media
FIA F1 Austria 2021 Nr. 44 Hamilton
FIA F1 Austria 2021 Nr. 31 Ocon (back)
FIA F1 Austria 2021 Nr. 3 Ricciardo
- 2021 United States Grand Prix 23 (cropped).jpg
2021 United States Grand Prix 23 (cropped)
- Hamilton vs Verstappen in 2021 Formula 1 season.png
Hamilton and Verstappen frequently exchanged the championship lead throughout the 2021 season, and entered the final round equal on points.
- FIA F1 Austria 2021 Nr. 7 Räikkönen (side).jpg
In his 19th year competing in F1 Kimi Räikkönen, driving for Alfa Romeo, retired after the season.
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Notes
- ↑ Kimi Räikkönen was entered into the Dutch Grand Prix, but later withdrew after testing positive for coronavirus.
- ↑ Ferrari entered round 1 as "Scuderia Mission Winnow Ferrari", rounds 2–6, 15, 17–22 as "Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow", and rounds 7–14, 16 as "Scuderia Ferrari".[12]
- ↑ Nikita Mazepin is Russian, but he competed as a neutral competitor using the designation RAF (Russian Automobile Federation), as the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a ban on Russia competing at World Championships. The ban was implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency in response to state-sponsored doping program of Russian athletes.[18]
- ↑ Nikita Mazepin was entered into the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, but later withdrew after testing positive for coronavirus.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The British, Italian and São Paulo Grands Prix featured the sprint qualifying format.
- ↑ Pole position for the British, Italian and São Paulo Grands Prix was determined by the result of the sprint qualifying format.
- ↑ Charles Leclerc set the fastest time in qualifying, but did not start the race. Pole position was left vacant on the grid. Max Verstappen, in the second slot, was the first driver on the grid. Leclerc is still considered to have held pole position.[48]
- ↑ Valtteri Bottas finished first in sprint qualifying, but was required to start the race from the back of the grid for exceeding his quota of power unit elements. Max Verstappen was promoted to pole position in his place.[50]
- ↑ Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time in qualifying, but received a ten-place grid penalty for exceeding his quota of internal combustion engines.[51] Valtteri Bottas was promoted to pole position in his place.[52]