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Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton expects more headwinds from Red Bull Racing in the 2021 Formula 1 season. The Mercedes star says: “Sergio Pérez will certainly make the team stronger.”
Red Bull Racing will compete with a very strong driver duo in 2021: with the two GP winners Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez, who finished third and fourth in the 2020 Formula 1 World Championship.
Of course, world champion Lewis Hamilton also followed what happened to Mercedes-Benz’s toughest rival. The Englishman suspects that next season will not be a walk in the park for the eighth title.
The 95 GP winner says: “With all due respect to Alexander Albon, most of the races were between Max, Valtteri and myself. I know how Verstappen must have felt this year, because I was in the same way a few years ago.” Situation us him “.
Hamilton alludes to the 2008 season when he won the world title with McLaren in the dramatic World Cup final in Brazil, just one point ahead of Ferrari driver Felipe Massa. Kimi Räikkönen in the second Ferrari was third at the time. And where was Lewis’s stablemate, Heikki Kovalainen? The Finn was only seventh in the World Cup.
Lewis continues: “Back then I was in the leading car at McLaren, and when it came time to fight Ferrari, I was alone. Ferrari had much more strategic options with two vehicles. That made our job really difficult. “
“So I guess: Sergio Pérez will strengthen Red Bull Racing, especially if he continues to drive at a level as high as last season.”
Already after the World Cup final in Abu Dhabi and Max Verstappen’s victory, the Briton declared: “If Red Bull Racing continues so strong next season, we will face a real duel. And I’ve always said: the more resistance, the more satisfying it is when you win in the end. “
Lewis Hamilton also received the FIA ”Personality of the Year” award on 18 December, in addition to the Formula 1 World Cup trophy, in a season in which he won his seventh world title and set a new record of victories. 95 GP successes. This award is determined by representatives of the media. Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff and Monza GP winner Pierre Gasly were also nominated.
Hamilton received an additional trophy from Angelo Sticchi Damiani, President of the Automobile Club of Italy, for the most points in the three races on Italian soil, at Monza, Mugello and Imola. Lewis, connected from the Mercedes race car plant in Brackley: “It was great for us to race on historic tracks this year, tracks that maybe we only knew on television before. That spiced up the World Cup. “
There was also the “Special FIA President Award” for Lewis’ seventh world title: “When you enter Formula 1, you naturally hope to win races and maybe one day become a world champion. But never in my life would I have thought that someone day he would be seven times champion. “
Abu Dhabi-GP, Yas Marina
1. Max Verstappen (NL), Red Bull Racing, 1:36: 30,256 h
2. Valtteri Bottas (FIN), Mercedes, +15.976 seconds
3. Lewis Hamilton (GB), Mercedes, +18,415
4. Alex Albon (T), Red Bull Racing, +19,987
5. Lando Norris (GB), McLaren, +1: 00729 min
6. Carlos Sainz (E), McLaren, +1: 05.662
7. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS), Renault, +1: 13,748
8. Pierre Gasly (F), AlphaTauri, +1: 29,718
9. Esteban Ocon (F), Renault, +1: 41.069
10. Lance Stroll (CDN), Racing Point, +1: 42,738
11. Daniil Kvyat (RUS), AlphaTauri, +1 Runde
12. Kimi Räikkönen (FIN), Alfa Romeo, +1 round
13. Charles Leclerc (MC), Ferrari, +1 Runde
14. Sebastian Vettel (D), Ferrari, +1 rounds
15. George Russell (GB), Williams, +1 Runde
16. Antonio Giovinazzi (I), Alfa Romeo, +1 round
17. Nicholas Latifi (CDN), Williams, +1 Runde
18. Kevin Magnussen (DK), Haas, +1 round
19. Pietro Fittipaldi (BR), Haas, +2 laps
Outside
Sergio Pérez (MEX), Racing Point, power transmission
World Championship stand after 17 races
driver
1. Hamilton 347 points
2. Bottas 223
3. Verstappen 214
4. Pérez 125
5. Ricciardo 119
6. Sainz 105
7. Albon 105
8. Leclerc 98
9. Norris 97
10. Gasly 75
11. Walk 75
12. Ocon 62
13. Vettel 33
14. Kvyat 32
15. Nico Hülkenberg (D) 10
16. Raikkonen 4
17. Giovinazzi 4
18. Russell 3
19. Romain Grosjean (F) 2
20. Magnussen 1
21. Latifi 0
22. Jack Aitken (GB) 0
23. Fittipaldi 0
Trademarks
1. Mercedes 573
2. Red Bull Racing 319
3. McLaren 202
4. Racing Point 195
5. Renault 181
6. Ferrari 131
7. AlphaTauri 107
8. Alfa Romeo 8
9. Haas 3
10. Williams 0
