Formula 1 Race Winners List 2021

Verstappen took the pole position in Abu Dhabi ahead of Hamilton and Norris. During the race, Hamilton had a better start and took the lead into the first turn. At turn six Verstappen attempted to pass, forcing Hamilton to evade by going off the track. Emerging from the corner still in the lead, Hamilton was instructed to give up the advantage he had gained.

The pair settled in their positions until the first round of pit stops, with Hamilton gradually extending his lead. He later lost much of his advantage when Pérez, Verstappen's teammate with Red Bull, and who had yet to make a pit stop, made it difficult for Hamilton to pass him, though Verstappen was unable to capitalise. Later, a virtual safety car period allowed Verstappen to change his tyres without losing track position; however, despite the tyre advantage Verstappen was unable to challenge Hamilton.

With seven laps remaining, the safety car was brought out for a crash involving Latifi. Red Bull used the opportunity to give Verstappen a fresh set of soft tyres, while Hamilton, still on his now-quite-old hard compound tyres, was not pitted. Race director Michael Masi took the decision to allow the five lapped cars between Hamilton and Verstappen to un-lap themselves before restarting the race with only one lap remaining.

Upon the restart, Verstappen quickly passed Hamilton and held him off for the remainder of the lap to win the race and the championship. Hamilton was fastest in qualifying in Brazil, but was disqualified the following day for a technical infringement. Bottas won the qualifying sprint, giving him pole position for the Grand Prix.

By finishing second in the sprint, Verstappen increased his championship lead over Hamilton by two points, and Carlos Sainz Jr., who finished third, increased Ferrari's championship lead over McLaren. Hamilton finished fifth in the sprint from last on the grid, but a five-place grid drop due to taking a new engine relegated him to tenth on the grid for the Grand Prix. On race day, both Verstappen was able to overtake Bottas on the first lap. Meanwhile, Lando Norris and Sainz were involved in a separate incident, with Norris getting a puncture. On lap 48, Hamilton caught up to Verstappen and attempted an overtake, but failed and resulted in both of them going off track.

He won the race from Verstappen, decreasing Verstappen's championship lead from 21 points to 14 points. In France, Verstappen got his second pole of the season, only to go wide at the first turn and lose the lead to Hamilton in the first lap. After regaining first with an undercut in his first pit stop, Verstappen found himself under heavy pressure from both Mercedes drivers. Verstappen relinquished his lead to pit a second time, one of two drivers to do so, returning to the track 18 seconds behind Hamilton. The speed advantage allowed him to make up the lost time, overtaking Bottas on lap 44 and Hamilton on the penultimate lap, for his third win of the year and his thirteenth win overall.

Hamilton, now 12 points behind in the Drivers' Championship, did secure second, and with an overtake on lap 49, Pérez managed to take third place, pushing Bottas to fourth. It was the first race of the season where the race winner also took pole position and the fastest lap, and the first race of the season with no retirements. Red Bull extended their lead over Mercedes in the Constructors' championship to 37 points after the race. Realising he couldn't match the young Frenchman on outright speed, Lauda often started behind his teammate as he instead opted to concentrate on race setup. His decision paid dividends as he pipped the Frenchman to the title at the final race in Portugal through being a more consistent points scorer across the year.

Lauda won five grands prix in 1984 to Prost's five, but only once finished outside the top two all year. He also became only the second driver ever to win the world championship without scoring a single pole position all season. Leclerc took pole at the Monaco Grand Prix despite crashing in the final minutes. The crash caused a driveshaft failure, meaning he was unable to start the race.

Verstappen started at the front and led from Bottas and Carlos Sainz Jr. On lap 30, Bottas was forced into retirement after his front-right tyre would not come off during a routine pitstop. Verstappen took the victory, as well as the championship lead for the first time in his career; Red Bull came away from this race with a one-point lead in the constructors' championship. Behind Verstappen, Sainz took his first podium for Ferrari, and Norris took his second podium of the season in third place.

Hamilton took pole position in Qatar, while a penalty for failing to respect double waived yellow flags during qualifying forced Verstappen to start from seventh. Verstappen quickly recovered to second place but was unable to threaten Hamilton's race lead despite setting the fastest lap on the last lap of the race. Fernando Alonso used a one-stop strategy to finish third, less than three seconds ahead Peréz in fourth, it was Alonso's first podium since the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix. Bottas and Nicholas Latifi retired from the race after they and multiple others suffered punctures on track.

The result reduced Verstappen's lead in the Driver's Championship to eight points while Mercedes' lead in the Constructor's Championship was reduced to five points. Leclerc took pole again in Azerbaijan, this time he was able to start the race. Hamilton was held up in his pitstop to allow Gasly to pass him in the pitlane, handing Verstappen the net race lead. On lap 30, Lance Stroll crashed out due to a tyre failure and brought out the safety car. With Verstappen comfortably leading with six laps to go, he suffered a tyre failure, causing him to crash on the pit straight, bringing out the safety car and then the red flag on lap 46 and 48, respectively.

Hamilton went up the inside of Pérez at the restart, but forgot to adjust his brake bias and missed the corner. Pérez won for the second time in his career and took his first win for Red Bull. Sebastian Vettel took Aston Martin's first podium in Formula One, while Gasly took his third career podium. Nelson Piquet became F1 World Champion for the second time, despite having trailed Alain Prost by 14 points with just three races to go.

After a tensely-fought season that featured eight different winners, the final standings saw just 10 points separating the top three, with Piquet just two clear of Prost at the very top. Prost had led the championship for much of the season, but a run of three retirements in the final four races left him vulnerable. It was to be Piquet who stepped up to capitalise, winning two of the final three races to snatch the title away from Prost. Piquet's '83 title was the last F1 championship win for the famous Brabham team. One of the most thrilling seasons in F1 history, 1986 delivered a titanic three-way fight featuring F1 heavyweights Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, and Nelson Piquet.

Prost became the first back-to-back champion since Jack Brabham in 1960 after a dramatic and famous season-finale in Adelaide, during which title favourite Mansell's left rear tire exploded on the Brabham Straight at 180 mph. Prost took the win to pip a dejected Mansell by just two points in the final standings, despite the Englishman having held the championship lead for seven consecutive races before the finale in Australia. Bottas won sprint qualifying at the Italian Grand Prix, but was forced to start from the back of the grid after exceeding the quota of one on his power units' components. Verstappen started at the front with the McLarens second and third.

A slow stop for Verstappen meant that he ended up alongside Hamilton after the latter made his pitstop. Ricciardo led to the end to take his first victory since the 2018 Monaco Grand Prix and McLaren's first victory since the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix. His teammate, Norris, finished behind him to secure the team's first 1–2 finish since the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix and the first 1–2 finish of the season. And Bottas, after a penalty applied to Pérez, came third from the back of the grid.

After the race, Verstappen was judged by the stewards to have been predominantly at fault for the collision with Hamilton. As a result, he was given a 3-place grid-penalty for the next race and two penalty points on his super licence. Verstappen took pole from Russell and Hamilton in the Belgian Grand Prix in a wet qualifying session. The race was heavily affected by rain, which initially saw the start delayed by 25 minutes. After two formation laps behind the safety car, the race start was suspended and red-flagged due to poor conditions and lack of visibility.

It was not restarted, becoming the shortest race in Formula 1 history and the sixth to award half-points as less than 75% of the race was completed. Verstappen won by default, with Russell in second and Hamilton in third place. As a result, Hamilton's lead in the championship was cut to three points from Verstappen. At the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Hamilton took pole from Pérez and Verstappen.

Verstappen went into the lead at turn 1 on lap 1, after it started raining on race day. Mazepin and Nicholas Latifi crashed at the exit of turn 13, bringing out the safety car. Under the safety car, Schumacher lost control of his car and spun into the pit exit, losing his front wing. On lap 31, at turn 7, Hamilton made a mistake, hitting the wall and damaging his front wing. The moment he did, his teammate Bottas and George Russell had a crash at over 320 km/h on the start-finish straight, bringing out the red flag.

After the race restarted, Norris overtook Charles Leclerc for second, but the former was overtaken by Hamilton, resulting in a podium of Verstappen, Hamilton and Norris. Cars were now under parc fermé conditions following the end of free practice three instead of qualifying, further restricting teams and drivers from making major changes to setups ahead of the race. The length of the two Friday practice sessions were cut from 90 minutes to 60 minutes.

He made his return, heavily bandaged up and still suffering the effects of his accident, just six weeks later at Ferrari's home race at Monza. Lauda defied the odds to finish fourth on his return and took the championship down to the wire with a podium at the United States Grand Prix four weeks later. The season finale took place in appalling wet conditions in Fuji, with some drivers even appealing for the race to be cancelled. Lauda was one of those, and fearing for his safety, he pulled into the pits to retire after just two laps. With the Austrian failing to score, Hunt's podium finish was enough to send the title his way. Lewis Hamilton came unstuck in last year's gripping F1 title race because he was 'fighting fire' against Max Verstappen , says former driver David Coulthard .

Verstappen got the better of Hamilton in a historic battle for the 2021 championship, pipping his arch-rival to the crown after a controversial finale out in Abu Dhabi. The pair had already clashed on several occasions throughout the season, including when Verstappen was penalised for a collision with his title nemesis at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. And the Dutchman eventually romped home to glory in contentious fashion, passing Hamilton on the final lap despite a late safety car emerging after a Nicholas Latifi crash. By the time the winner crosses the finish line, either Max Verstappen or Lewis Hamilton will have claimed the season-ending points title. They are tied atop the board with nobody else competing for the title. If both drivers finish in the top eight, whomever finishes ahead of the other is guaranteed the points total.

If the drivers finish ninth and tenth, it will come down to if either claims fastest lap. If they both finish outside the top ten and neither has the fastest lap on the day, Verstappen wins due to overall wins tiebreaker. One has to wonder if he spins out Hamilton to secure the title or not. The engines are roaring almost as much as the crowd as the pit lane opens and the cars make their way to the grid for the final time in 2021. The big talk is on tyres, with Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton starting the race on different compunds . Despite that, though, Pirelli expect the one-stop to be the fastest, no matter the starting tyre with hard tyres the choice at the stop.

The altered Yas Marina layout hasn't affected tyre wear enough for a two-stop to become profitable unless a safety car intervenes. Nikita Mazepin might be bringing a healthy chunk of budget with him to the Haas team, but do not be fooled into thinking he has not also got the driving chops to go with it. The Russian – the fourth to compete in F1 after Vitaly Petrov, Sergey Sirotkin and Daniil Kvyat – has an impressive CV in the junior formulas, finishing runner-up in the 2018 GP3 championship with four race wins. And after taking his time to find his feet in his first season of F2 in 2019, he came into his own in 2020, notching up six podiums – including two victories – on his way to fifth in the standings. After two straight years of Ferrari dominance, the 2003 season was surprisingly close, with both McLaren's Kimi Räikkönen and Williams' Juan-Pablo Montoya emerging as credible title contenders. Eight different drivers claimed victory during the 2003 season, with three doing so for the first time.

Michael Schumacher secured six to Räikkönen's one, but it was the Finn's consistency that kept him in contention until the final race. An eighth-place finish at the season-ending Japanese Grand Prix was enough for Schumacher to confirm a fourth consecutive world title win. In a dramatic finish to the final race of the season, Red Bull's Verstappen overtook the Mercedes driver on the last lap to claim victory at the Yas Marina Circuit and secure the first world championship of his career. Verstappen was required to start from the back at the Russian Grand Prix for exceeding his quota of a number of his power unit components. Norris took his first career pole position, from Sainz , and Russell.

The running order changed substantially as heavy rain began to fall in the closing laps. Hamilton took his 100th Formula One victory as well as the championship lead, ahead of Verstappen and Sainz. There is one bonus point available for the driver who records the fastest lap of the race. However, they must also finish in the top 10 in order to qualify for the point. This is to stop all the drivers outside the top 10 pitting for fresh tyres in the last few laps in an effort to set a fastest lap, which would compromise the integrity of the race.

Massa actually won one more grand prix than Hamilton across the season, but there was little else to separate them. Between them, they started 13 out of 18 races on pole and delivered some of the closest and most tense racing of any championship fight in recent decades. The closest championship battle in F1 history, Austrian Niki Lauda secured his third drivers' world title by defeating McLaren teammate Alain Prost by just half a point in his penultimate season before retirement. Lauda returned to F1 with McLaren following a two-year sabbatical and found himself with the chance to win a third world title just two years later.

Despite having held the upper hand over teammate John Watson during his first two seasons back in the sport, he found the younger and faster Prost a very different challenge. Verstappen led an F1-high 652 of the 1,211 laps this year and scored 18 podium finishes. Bottas took pole in Mexico City, but was spun around at the first corner by Daniel Ricciardo.

Another incident behind involving Yuki Tsunoda and Mick Schumacher took both drivers out of the race, calling out the safety car. Verstappen took his second win in a row, increasing his lead from Hamilton in second, and Pérez took the final spot on the podium in his home race. Lewis Hamilton was the fastest in qualifying in Turkey, but was dropped down the grid because of a penalty due to a power unit component change.

Valtteri Bottas was promoted to pole position and won the race, his first of 2021. He was followed by Max Verstappen, who re-took the championship lead, and Sergio Pérez, who took his first podium since France. Hamilton was fastest in qualifying to start in first place for the first ever sprint in the British Grand Prix. On lap five of the sprint, Pérez spun, dropping him to the back of the field, and later retiring, forcing him to start from the pits for the race. On the first lap of the Grand Prix, Verstappen and Hamilton collided at approximately 290 kilometres per hour at Copse corner. Hamilton made contact with Verstappen's right rear wheel, causing the tyre to come off and Verstappen travelled into the barrier, causing the race to be stopped temporarily.

Hamilton was penalised for the contact with a ten-second penalty, which he served during his pit stop. Leclerc led most of the Grand Prix, but finished second after Hamilton overtook Norris, Bottas, and Leclerc in the late stages to win the race. Hamilton reduced his gap to Verstappen from 33 points to eight points. Max Verstappen will start this Sunday's race from the front of the grid, having benefited from a slipstream provided by Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez to post the fastest lap on Saturday, ahead of second-placed Lewis Hamilton. It's Lando Norris third, so he'll have the best seat to the start of the world championship duel.