By mid-season, Verstappen had opened a 32-point lead over the Briton. As team boss, Toto was also key to spearheading the Mercedes 2021 fightback. Despite losing out on the 2021 drivers’ title, Mercedes took its eighth constructors’ championship which puts it joint third with McLaren on the list of the most successful teams in F1 history. Throughout the season the team principals took swipes at each other, with Horner calling Wolff “a windbag”, and Wolff referring to Horner as “pantomime dame.” What remains though, is that Toto is one hell of a team boss - in fact, he deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the Enzo Ferraris, Ron Dennises, and Frank Williams’ of this world. Things got just as heated between Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner and his Mercedes counterpart Toto Wolff. The excitement of the 2021 Formula 1 title battle wasn’t just relegated to Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton on-track. If, however, Aston Martin does manage to nail the next season’s new regulations as it has done so in its previous guises (see, Jordan, Force India, and Racing Point) expect to see The Green Team - and Vettel especially - punching above their weight more often than not. During the second half of 2021, Aston Martin turned its efforts fully to its 2022 car, so points for both Seb and his teammate Lance Stroll were few and far between. However, Seb and Aston Martin were eventually disqualified for not having enough fuel in the car after the race. Another P2 finish came at the Hungarian Grand Prix. The following race in Azerbaijan, Seb turned in a classic performance to avoid the chaos and finish second - in doing so, he scored Aston Martin’s first ever F1 podium, and his first top-three finish since Turkey 2020. After finding his feet with his new team in the first opening races, the German put in a storming drive to fifth in Monaco to kickstart his year. Yet despite finishing in the bottom half of the championship table, we finally saw the return of the old Seb this season. ![]() After all, for a man who is the joint-third most successful driver in the history of the sport, 12th in the drivers’ standings and 43 points in 2021 is seemingly little to shout about. On paper, four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel fared little better in his debut season with the newly-branded Aston Martin outfit than he did during his last year with Ferrari in 2020. © Aston Martin Cognizant F1 Team media site Sebastian Vettel Scores Two Podiums For The All-New Aston Martin F1 Team After a Dismal 2020 With Ferrari After taking stock of these numbers, let’s put the argument about who is the ‘true’ F1 champion of 2021 to bed and look back on what was one of the most competitive F1 seasons ever. ![]() Perhaps most astonishingly of all, Verstappen led 652 laps whilst the rest of the field combined - including Hamilton - led 644. The Dutchman won 10 races to Hamilton’s 8 he took 10 pole positions to Hamilton’s 5 The Red Bull driver also took 18 podiums to the Mercedes man’s 17. Didn’t happen though, did it? Wherever you stand on the controversial ending to the season in Abu Dhabi, F1’s new champion, Red Bull driver Max Verstappen is fully deserving of his maiden F1 title. Going into 2021, many - including us - expected Hamilton to score an eighth to become the Greatest of All Time. Come the end of the 2020 season, the Briton won his seventh drivers’ title to draw level with Michael Schumacher to become the most successful driver the sport has ever seen. Whilst Nico Rosberg took the title in 2016, every other season was won by Lewis Hamilton. (If you’d like to see how wrong we were with our F1 2021 pre-season predictions, click here to read it and then feel free to drop us a message laughing at us!) THE HIGHS Max Verstappen and Red Bull Racing Finally Break The Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes Stranglehold on The F1 Drivers’ Championshipįrom 2014 to 2020, Mercedes won every Formula 1 drivers’ and constructors’ championship on the bounce. ![]() To reflect on what was undoubtedly the greatest F1 season since 2012, we’ve put together some of the highs and lows of a Formula 1 year that will hopefully go down in history for all of the right reasons. Wherever you stand on the F1 2021 season ender, the F1 community - team members and fans alike - are pretty much united in the belief that this year was one of the sport’s finest. We don’t know about you, but we’ve only got our breath back after THAT 2021 Formula 1 season finale!o After a nail-biting 22 races, Max Verstappen and Red Bull grabbed their first F1 drivers’ championship in the final round of the season at Abu Dhabi despite Lewis Hamilton seeming to be on course for a record-breaking eighth title for the majority of the race.
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