18 December, 2020
Heading into the Formula World Championship earlier this year, more than a few changes were slated for the driving series.
Rather than a start in March, the series began in July with the Austrian Grand Prix. Additionally, rather than include 22 Grands Prix, it included only 17.
However, the altered schedule couldn’t stop Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes from taking their seventh World Drivers’ and World Constructors’ champion titles. Following the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Mercedes surpassed the record set by Ferrari in the early 2000s.
The Hamilton Factor
Looking ahead, any conversation that involves the World Championship of Formula One needs to take into account the momentum of Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes. At the moment, pundits tend to favor Red Bull’s Max Verstappen or Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas to end Hamilton’s reign.