#F1 DRIVERS 2021 DRIVER#

#F1 DRIVERS 2021 DRIVER#

This was the first season since 2008 where the champion driver was not from the team that took the constructors' title. On 10 March 2022 the FIA World Motor Sport Council report on the events of the final race of the season was announced, and that the 'Race Director called the safety car back into the pit lane without it having completed an additional lap as required by the Formula 1 Sporting Regulations', however also noted that the 'results of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and the FIA Formula One World Championship are valid, final and cannot now be changed'. Unlapping procedures behind the safety car were to be reassessed and presented by the F1 Sporting Advisory Committee prior to the start of the 2022 World Championship season. The incident led to key structural changes to race control, including the removal of Michael Masi from his role as race director and the implementation of a virtual race control room, who assist the race director. Mercedes initially protested the results, and later decided not to appeal after their protest was denied. Verstappen sealed the title after winning the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after a last-lap restart pass on Hamilton following a contentious conclusion of a safety car period. The season ended with a controversial finish, with the two title rivals for the drivers' crown entering the last race of the season with equal points. Mercedes retained the Constructors' Championship for the eighth consecutive season. Four-time defending and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes finished runner up. Honda became the second engine supplier in the turbo-hybrid era to power a championship winning car, after Mercedes. Verstappen became the first ever driver from the Netherlands, the first Honda-powered driver since Ayrton Senna in 1991, the first Red Bull driver since Sebastian Vettel in 2013 and the first non-Mercedes driver in the turbo-hybrid era to win the World Championship. Mercedes won their eighth consecutive Constructors' Championship.Īt season's end in Abu Dhabi, Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing- Honda won the Drivers' Championship for the first time in his career.

F1 drivers 2021