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The 2020 FIA Formula One World Championship was the motor racing championship for Formula One cars which was the 71st running of the Formula One World Championship. It marked the 70th anniversary of the first Formula One World Drivers' Championship. [1]
Michael Schumacher has won the World Drivers' Championship a record seven times – twice with Benetton and five times with Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton equaled Schumacher's record in 2020, winning one with McLaren and six with Mercedes. Juan Manuel Fangio won the World Drivers' Championship five times with Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Mercedes and Ferrari ...
The F1 World Championship season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix, held usually on purpose-built circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets. [3] Each winner is presented with a trophy and the results of each race are combined to determine two annual Championships, one for drivers and one for constructors. [4]
Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeled auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. [1] The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. [2] Each year, the F1 World Championship season is held.
Driver Race 1 194th race 190th race Sergio Pérez: 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix: 2 151st race 150th race Carlos Sainz Jr. 2022 British Grand Prix: 3 132nd race 130th race Mark Webber: 2009 German Grand Prix: 4 125th race 123rd race Rubens Barrichello: 2000 German Grand Prix: 5 119th race 117th race Jarno Trulli: 2004 Monaco Grand Prix: 6 115th race ...
In preparation for his F1 return, Alonso performed four testing days driving the Renault R.S.18 and was quickest in the post-2020 season young driver's test driving the Renault R.S.20 for Renault. [88] [89] In his first race with Alpine at the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix, Alonso was forced to retire after plastic debris entered his brake duct. [90]
Like Verstappen and Sainz Jr., racing also runs in the family for Kevin Magnussen who is the son of Jan Magnussen, a four-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours and fellow F1 driver.
In 1974 a consistent race-to-race numbering system was first implemented in Formula One, based on the 1973 Constructors' Championship results. These assigned numbers were supposed to stay with their teams as long as they were part of Formula 1 or until they ran the reigning World Drivers' Champion , in which case they would swap numbers with ...