Of the last six full-time drivers in the standings, three will be elsewhere in 2022, all for different reasons. If you’ll recall, at the start of the 2021 season there were aerodynamic changes which hurt ‘low rake’ cars like Mercedes and Aston Martin (given their car’s similarities to the Mercedes) the most. Sebastian Vettel will actually beat his woeful 13th-placed finish from 2020 at Ferrari, as he’s almost certain to beat Lance Stroll at Aston Martin, with the peaks of a second-place in Azerbaijan and two fifths in Monaco and Belgium followed by way, way too many irrelevant back-of-the-midfield races. Hamilton had to settle for a fifth-place finish at Istanbul Park after taking a 10-place grid penalty, while Verstappen came home in P2 behind Valtteri Bottas. His rookie teammate Yuki Tsunoda showed early promise with a ninth on debut in Bahrain, but has otherwise been well off the pace off the very impressive Gasly, with just five other points finishes this season and three retirements only last-placer Nikita Mazepin has failed to finish more often. Lewis Hamilton finds himself trailing Max Verstappen in the fight for the 2021 F1 World Championship following the Turkish Grand Prix. Unfortunately for the Red Bull junior side, Gasly’s brilliant qualifying hasn’t been matched on Sundays, with just one third-place (in Azerbaijan, when Verstappen, Hamilton and Bottas all missed the points). That is what makes this sport so interesting, because it is ingrained in our nature that we don’t like confrontation and then one is intrigued to see how that relationship unfolds.
“And I don’t think you can control it, Hamilton and Verstappen, I don’t think you want to control it because they are the gladiators in their machines. “I would never give the instruction to crash into anyone else but if they go to that last race and whoever is in front wins the championship, they will be racing each other, hard. “If you are racing for the championship and you see it fading away because the other guy is overtaking you, what tool have you got other than the one that makes sure he can’t overtake? We’ve seen it with Schumacher and Villeneuve, we saw it with Senna and Prost twice. “What happened in Monza? Verstappen took Lewis out because he was about to overtake and he was quicker. 2021 Driver Standings Pos Driver Nationality Car PTS 1: Max Verstappen VER: NED: Red Bull Racing Honda: 395.5: 2. F1 2021 DRIVERS' STANDINGS 1 Max Verstappen Red Bull - 369.5 pts 2 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes - 369.5 3 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes -218 4. “If it was to come to the scenario of the last race in Abu Dhabi and they were to be racing each other for the title, whoever is in front (on points) is absolutely going to try to do the same as in the Senna-Prost years,” Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said last month. What exactly do we mean by that? Well, the 1989, 1990, 19 crowns were all decided when the two leaders crashed out in the final race if both the Dutchman and Brit crash out in Abu Dhabi, Verstappen will be champion. 2021 F1 Standings Drivers Championship 2, Lewis Hamilton, MERCEDES 3, Valtteri Bottas, MERCEDES 4, Sergio Perez, RED BULL RACING HONDA 5, Carlos Sainz.
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