2019 Formula 1 World Championship Archives

F1 (Round 21/Final round) – 2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Results and Highlights

♦ Lewis Hamilton, already the 2019 World Champion Driver, finished off the season with another win at Yas Marina. It is his fifth victory at the event.

♦ Although Charles Leclerc finished third overall, his position is not confirmed as there is an investigation into the amount of fuel that was actually in the Ferrari.

♦ Valtteri Bottas finished finished the race in 4th after having started from the back of the grid.

♦ In the closing stages of the race, McLaren’s Carlos Sainz, Jr. gave one last push and moved into 10th place to finish 6th overall in the Driver’s Championship.

♦ Alex Albon is the only one of the four rookies this year who had not driven an F1 car at Yas Marina (although he is familiar with it, having raced in GP3 and F2 events there).

2019 F1 World Championship — *The champion driver and champion team of 2019*

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F1 (Round 21/final round) – 2019 Abu Dhabi Starting Grid

Race starts at 5:10 pm in Abu Dhabi/9:10 pm in Malaysia on Sunday

*Final assignment for the F1 Safety Car and driver Bernd Maylander.*

F1 (Round 20) – 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix Results and Highlights

♦ Max Verstappen took a well-deserved third win of the 2019 season, starting from pole position all the way to the chequered flag.

♦ In the closing stages of the race, the two Ferrari drivers made contact and knocked themselves out of the race.

♦ Lewis Hamilton finished third but was deemed by the stewards to be at fault for an incident with Alexander Albon Ansusinhan, Red Bull Racing’s Thai-British driver, As a result, Hamilton received a 5-second penalty which dropped him to 7th in the official classification.

♦ Hamilton’s demotion gave Carlos Sainz the third position – his first ever F1 podium. He had started from 20th and fought hard to move up the field. The podium finish was also McLaren’s first one since 2014 in Australia.

♦ Pierre Gasly also had a great day with his first podium, having gotten ahead after the Hemilton-Albon incident. Although the Mercedes-AMG driver tried to out-accelerate him to the finish line, Gasly pulled ahead to cross first and claim second position.

Next race (final round) in Abu Dhabi on December 1

F1 (Round 20) – 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix Starting Grid

Race starts in Brazil at 2:10 pm Sunday/1:10 am Monday in Malaysia

F1 (Round 19) – 2019 United States Grand Prix Results and Highlights

*Valtteri Bottas won the race and also had his name embedded in Hollywood’s Walk of Fame*

Next race in Brazil on November 17

F1 (Round 19) – 2019 United States Grand Prix Starting Grid

Race starts in Texas at 1:10 pm Sunday/3:10 am Monday in Malaysia

F1 (Round 18) – 2019 Mexican Grand Prix Results and Highlights

♦ Lewis Hamilton’s win in Mexico still does not confirm his sixth world title, and he will have to wait till the next round in Texas. His closest rival is his team mate, Valtteri Bottas who is now 74 points behind.

♦ Ferrari started off with an unexpected advantage of pole position for Charles Leclerc when Max Verstappen lost his pole position because he ignored warning flags. However, the Italian team again lost that advantage although Sebastian Vettel’s tyre strategy worked out well in the end.

♦ Daniil Kvyat finished 9th overall but was dropped to 11th when the official results came out. The Toro Rosso driver was given a 10-second post-race time penalty for his last lap incident with Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg. The change in position also lost him and his team 2 points.

♦ Alexander Albon put in a good performance in Mexico, rising as high as third in the running, but the 2-stop strategy he had to use prevented him from pursuing the Mercedes-AMG drivers.

♦ The chances of Hamilton winning in Texas are pretty good as he has won 5 races there over the past 7 years. After collecting another world title, he can decide if he wants to move to Ferrari, Formula E, become an actor (he revealed that he was approached to star in Top Gun 2), or try to save the world in other ways.

100 wins — *100 F1 victories for the Mercedes Silver Arrows team*

Next race in Texas on November 3

F1 (Round 18) – 2019 Mexican Grand Prix Starting Grid

Race starts at 1:10 pm in Mexico Sunday/3:10 am on Monday in Malaysia

*With Max Verstappen demoted 3 positions, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc takes pole position for the Mexican Grand Prix.*

Mexican GP — *Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen qualified for pole position but his joy was short-lived. He was penalised 3 places for ignoring warning flags after Valtteri Bottas had crashed.*

F1 (Round 17) – 2019 Japanese Grand Prix Results and Highlights

♦ The strong typhoon forced qualifying to be postponed to raceday and both Ferrari’s were able to take the front row of the starting grid.

♦ With Valtteri Bottas winning in Japan, the 2019 F1 Constructors Championship is secured by the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Motorsport team. The sixth consecutive world championship double is a new Formula 1 record.

♦ Although the two Ferraris had the front row on the starting grid, the team lost its advantage when the lights went green as Sebastian Vettel fumbled his start. However, the stewards did not penalise him for what appeared to be a ‘jump start’. Charles Leclerc was also slow off the line and Bottas surged forward, taking advantage of the situation.

♦ Max Verstappen’s race was short after his car was hit by Leclerc’s early in the race. Although both cars were damaged, the Red Bull was worse off and Verstappen was forced to retire.

♦ It was Alexander Albon’s first time at Suzuka and the 4th place is the best he has achieved in his career to date, one position better than in Belgium and Russia.

♦ A Mercedes-AMG driver will win the title again but it’s still not Lewis Hamilton’s for sure. The round in Mexico will be a tense one as Bottas still has an outside chance, depending on the outcome.