2020 F1

[JoVel]

Driver lineup for 2020

MERCEDES	Lewis Hamilton	Valtteri Bottas
FERRARI	Charles Leclerc	Sebastian Vettel
RED BULL	Max Verstappen	Alexander Albon
MCLAREN	Carlos Sainz	Lando Norris
RENAULT	Daniel Ricciardo	Esteban Ocon
ALPHA TAURI	Pierre Gasly	Daniil Kvyat
RACING POINT	Sergio Perez	Lance Stroll
ALFA ROMEO	Kimi Räikkönen	Antonio Giovinazzi
HAAS	Kevin Magnussen	Romain Grosjean
WILLIAMS	George Russell	Nicholas Latifi

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Race calendar for 2020

Preseason testing takes place in Barcelona, in February 19-28.

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[JoVel]

Only a miracle can take away Lewis' record tying 7th title from him this season, but he's probably going to break a handful of other records this season as well.

Wins: Schumacher 91, Hamilton 84
Podiums: Schumacher 155, Hamilton 151

Schumacher also has a record for most wins at the same circuit with 8 in Magny Cours. Lewis can tie that by winning in Canada or Hungary.

I've strongly expressed my dislike for Lewis in the past, but I think we should take this season to appreciate what he has accomplished. Sure, he's been in the best car for years now but he'll most likely set some records that won't be broken for years, probably decades. Let's not look back in 10 years at how good Hamilton was, let's look at how good he is.

 

[Khelandros]

I prefer not to look at it as how good Lewis was, which he wasn't, but how dominant Mercedes has been for the last 6 years.

 

[JoVel]

I prefer not to look at it as how good Lewis was, which he wasn't, but how dominant Mercedes has been for the last 6 years.

Tell me an all time great who didn't have a dominant car.

 

[Paris in Flames]

This season should be a really interesting one. Lots of great storylines.

• Is Haas truly that terrible?
• What can Racing Point bring now that they're kinda settled in and able to better focus on the car and development
• Will Latifi set F1 records by being lapped 13 times in his first race?
• New tracks
• Does Mclaren stay as the best of the rest or was it more of a flash in the pan?
• How much more can Verstappen get out of the Red Bull/Honda? Is 2nd in the championship realistic?

Plus there's probably a huge shuffle come 2021 in terms of who is where so that should be a lot of fun and speculation.

I also grabbed my tickets for Montreal. Opted to do the full Friday-Sunday instead of just Sunday this year. Very excited.

 

[JoVel]

I think the biggest storyline of this season will be "is it 2021 yet?".

 

[Paris in Flames]

I think the biggest storyline of this season will be "is it 2021 yet?".

You THINK that until we manage to get a Latifi, Grosjean and Stroll podium.

 

[SoupyFIN]

Latifi reminds me so much of Maldonado. Spends a million years in GP2/F2, finally finishes near the top (Crashonado actually won the whole thing) and then Moneybags his way to F1.

 

[JoVel]

Latifi reminds me so much of Maldonado. Spends a million years in GP2/F2, finally finishes near the top (Crashonado actually won the whole thing) and then Moneybags his way to F1.

On top of that, last year's F2 class was probably the weakest of recent years. Even the champion Nyck de Vries wasn't even close to getting himself a seat in F1.

 

[PanniniClaus]

Least amount of turnover in F1 history? 2 changes to the lineup from Brazil..

 

[Preds Partisan]

Could be zero changes next year depending on how the 2021 car development goes for each team. They may all want to remove the driver variable with the new design coming. Or not.

 

[Paris in Flames]

Latifi reminds me so much of Maldonado. Spends a million years in GP2/F2, finally finishes near the top (Crashonado actually won the whole thing) and then Moneybags his way to F1.

He's going to do a terrific job at deflecting most of the "pay driver, he sucks" stuff away from Stroll.

Whatever anybody's opinion is on Stroll, he's significantly better than Latifi.

The f2 class was so, so, so weak and Latifi was meh. Okay. Second. But that doesn't say much. Last season's rookies demolished this guy.

 

[Paris in Flames]

God. I hope they can give him a car capable of winning the championship. Way too much raw talent to waste.

*Edit*

Sometimes I forget how young Max is. When this deal is up in 2023, he'll have been with Red Bull for 8(?) seasons and he'll still just be 25....meaning plenty of time to bail and win elsewhere if he has to.

 

[chicagoskycam]

The Max deal takes away a prospect for Mercedes if Lewis is going to leave for Ferrari. I'd love to see Lewis go to Ferrari and Ricardo go to Merc.

 

[JoVel]

REVEALED: The Top 10 races of the decade - as chosen by you | Formula 1®

So according to the public voting, the two tracks that make up three spots in the top 5 will be out of the calendar by 2021. Nice job F1.

Although there's some pretty clear recency bias in that list. As great as Germany and Brazil were this year, they shouldn't be #1 and #3. Canada 2011 and Brazil 2012 were way better than any other race this decade and no one can convince me otherwise.

 

[Preds Partisan]

COTA in Austin has resurfaced about 40 percent of the track to get rid of the bumps.

 

[JoVel]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/f1i.co...-on-mega-race-deal-with-saudi-arabia.html/amp

This is what we're replacing Hockenheim and Interlagos with. Man do I hate F1 sometimes. Well, can't blame them for wanting to make money I guess.

 

[Preds Partisan]

Same opinion as when these rumors started, it's a bad look and nothing but a money grab.

In other news, Haas found a legit 2020 sponsor in MindMaze, a neurotechnology company that has a relationship with Ricciardo and sponsored McLaren's 2019 Indy 500 team.

 

[Paris in Flames]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/f1i.co...-on-mega-race-deal-with-saudi-arabia.html/amp

This is what we're replacing Hockenheim and Interlagos with. Man do I hate F1 sometimes. Well, can't blame them for wanting to make money I guess.

That's a shit load of blood money.

Hate it for so many reasons but new tracks are always appreciated by the gamer in me.

 

[Paris in Flames]

Papa Stroll seemingly getting closer and closer to buying Aston Martin. I imagine we'll be seeing Aston Martin Racing within a year or so.

 

[umma gumma]

Tell me an all time great who didn't have a dominant car.

lol not for half of their career!

If Vettel instead of Hamilton had moved to Mercedes he would be close to 10 championships by now, but no one thinks Vettel is a better driver than Hamilton, but they did back then on the string of his 4 successive tiles and domination of the sport. That's where Hamilton is now.

Hope he doesn't move to Ferrari.

 

[Paris in Flames]

MASTERPLAN? Wolff and Stroll Rumoured to Take Over Mercedes From 2021

Papa Stroll out here wylin'

(Not claiming this as fact or anything. Just a wild rumour)

 

[Preds Partisan]

 

[Eye of Ra]

im i the only one who liked the 90s/early 00s more? the noise the cars made this period was just so cool. the cars was faster and the drivers where more reckless, just more fun overall than modern formel 1.

 

[Paris in Flames]

Annnnnnd it's happened.

Give me that green livery please.