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The 2011 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 65th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. The original calendar for the 2011 Formula One World Championship consisted of twenty rounds, [1] including the inaugural running of the Indian Grand Prix [2] before the cancellation of the Bahrain Grand Prix.
FIA Formula One World Championship: Sebastian Vettel [11] 2011 Formula One World Championship: Constructors: Red Bull Racing-Renault [12] GP2 Series: Romain Grosjean [13] 2011 GP2 Series: Teams: Barwa Addax Team [14] GP2 Asia Series: Romain Grosjean [15] 2011 GP2 Asia Series: Teams: DAMS [15] GP3 Series: Valtteri Bottas [16] 2011 GP3 Series ...
The World Championship for Drivers has been contended since 1950, [2] after the Formula One standard was agreed upon in 1946. [5] The Constructors' Championship was added for the 1958 season and has been awarded ever since. [2] Lewis Hamilton has won 105 Grands Prix during his career. He won 21 races with McLaren and 84 with Mercedes.
The Constructors' Championship was first awarded, as the International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers, in 1958 to Vanwall. [9] In 1981 this name was officially changed to the World Constructors' Championship. The makes of both chassis and an engine are included in the constructor name. [10]
It was the ninth race of the 2011 season, and saw the introduction of a ban on off-throttle blown diffusers, [4] the practice of forcing the engine to continue to produce exhaust gasses to generate downforce when drivers are not using the throttle. The race also saw the Formula One debut of future Grand Prix winner Daniel Ricciardo.
The 2011 Canadian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2011) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 June 2011 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the seventh race of the 2011 Formula One World Championship and the 48th Canadian Grand Prix .
Petrov finished tenth to score one point at the R31's final race, and 2011 season finale at the Brazilian Grand Prix. Senna failed to score points by finishing in seventeenth, yet Renault remained fifth in the Constructors' Championship standings with a best result of third place, albeit being 95 points behind Mercedes.
The 2011 Belgian Grand Prix, formally the 2011 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix, [2] was a Formula One motor race that was held on 28 August 2011, [3] at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps near the village of Francorchamps, Wallonia, Belgium. [4]