The 2021 F1 Season – A Handy Guide

2019 Japanese Grand Prix, Sunday - Wolfgang Wilhelm

After a disrupted 2020 season (thanks Covid), F1 looks like it’s getting back to normal for 2021. We were meant to have the new regulations in play this year, but due to the impact of the global pandemic, the podcast joke of 2021 happening late has sadly come true. This means that most of this years cars are more like upgrades of the ones we eventually got to see on track in 2020, with not many changes, although McLaren have now started using Mercedes power and the team formally known as Racing Point (and Force India, Spyker, Midland & Jordan) are now known as Aston Martin.

This season features the same 10 teams as last year, with a new name for the Racing Point team, now being branded as Aston Martin after the chairman Lawrence Stroll bought the legendary British sports car marque and Renault re-branding as their high performance brand Alpine. We’ve got 3 rookies on the grid in Mick Schumacher & Nikita Mazepin  both driving for Haas and Yuki Tsunoda in the Alpha Tauri, with Fernando Alonso returning after 3 years of racing in various other series. Drivers we won’t be seeing on the grid this year are both Haas pilots from the last few years, Romain Grosjean & Kevin Magnussen, who have gone to IndyCar and IMSA respectively, Daniil Kvyat, who has left the RedBull organisation for the 2nd time and will be spending the 2021 season as a reserve driver for the French Alpine team. Alex Albon has also left the grid after a torrid 2020 season with RedBull who will continue to employ him as a test & development driver. After last year where 8 teams retained the same lineup as the previous season, only 3 teams (Mercedes, Alfa Romeo & Williams) have kept the same driver lineup across seasons.

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team – Car F1 W12 – Engine: Mercedes

  • 44 Lewis Hamilton (HAM)
  • 77 Vatteri Bottas (BOT)

Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow – Car SF21 – Engine: Ferrari

  • 16 Charles Leclerc (LEC)
  • 55 Carlos Sainz (SAI)

Uralkali Haas F1 Team – Car VF-21 – Engine: Ferrari

  • 9 Nikita Mazepin (MAZ) – Rookie
  • 47 Mick Schumacher (MSC) – Rookie

McLaren F1 Team – Car: MCL35M – Engine: Mercedes

  • 2 Lando Norris (NOR)
  • 3 Daniel Ricciardo (RIC)

Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team- Car: AMR21 – Engine: Mercedes

  • 5 Sebastian Vettel (VET)
  • 18 Lance Stroll (STR)

RedBull Racing Honda – Car: RB16B – Engine: Honda

  • 11 Sergio Perez (PER)
  • 33 Max Verstappen (VER)

Alpine F1 Team – Car: A521- Engine: Renault

  • 14 Fernando Alonso (ALO)
  • 31 Esteban Ocon (OCO)

Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen – Car: C41 – Engine: Ferrari

  • 7 Kimi Raikkonen (RAI)
  • 99 Antonio Giovinazzi (GIO)

Scuderia Alpha Tauri Honda – Car: AT02 – Engine: Honda

  • 10 Pierre Gasly (GAS)
  • 22 Yuki Tsunoda (TSU) – Rookie

Williams Racing – Car: FW43B – Engine: Mercedes

  • 63 George Russell (RUS)
  • 6 Nicholas Latifi (LAT)

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