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2018 - Results after 3 races

Driver's Championship Results

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Constructor's Championship Results

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2018 - Results after 11 races

Driver's Championship's Results

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Constructor's Championship's Results

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Well, its been a while hasn't it.

Last time I posted, Force India had just gone into administration the day before. I waited to see how it would all pan out, and there goes 2 years :facepalm: Then the forum went down. Now my hours at work have changed and the forum is back, I should hopefully be more consistent with this.

So what did we miss?

2018
After Hungary, the Top 3 where as follows, with Magnussen extending his lead to 20 points:

Magnussen: 183
Ocon: 163
Pérez: 162

However, a double 1-2 by the brand new Racing Point Force India team would see Magnussen drop to 3rd.
(Top 3 After Italy):

Ocon: 206
Pérez: 205
Magnussen: 203

Ocon & Pérez's rivalry would result in the two colliding in the next race in Singapore, but Ocon comes off worse and retires, giving Pérez the championship lead. Magnussen then finishes ahead of both Racing Points in Russia, tying the score with Pérez but leading on countback.

(Top 5 after Russia):

Magnussen: 227 (3 wins, 5 2nds)
Pérez: 227 (3 wins, 3 2nds)
Ocon: 221
Leclerc: 185
Gasly: 162

However the championship fight soon fizzles out. Both Ocon & Magnussen get disqualified in the US Grand Prix, giving Pérez a solid lead, along with his win in Japan a fortnight prior.

(Top 5 after US):

Pérez: 277
Ocon: 236
Magnussen: 227
Gasly: 186
Leclerc: 185

The last 3 races are all won by Leclerc, with Leclerc winning 5 out of the last 7 races, with the other 2 being retirements. However, Leclerc was too far behind, and had too many retirements, to make a real championship challenge, missing out on even 2nd place by 2 points.
No other driver is very consistent in the last 3 races, giving the trophy to Peréz .

With the original Force India excluded, Haas take the constructors by 19 points, despite Leclerc's late surge for Sauber.

Final Standings for 2018:

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2019

For the first half of the season, this year seems like a Pérez vs Raikkonen affair, with Kvyat & Stroll lurking in the wings. Even the constructors is fairly close, for example, the standings after Hungary as a follows:

Racing Point: 315
Toro Rosso: 305
Alfa Romeo: 302

However, after this point Raikkonen seems to fall off a cliff, with the 2nd half of the season dominated by Pérez and Gasly (replacing Kyvat). Pérez easily overhauls Raikkonen's lead and wins...

Again.

Toro Rosso make a relatively close challenge to Racing Point, but still lose by 40 points.

Final Standings:

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2020

This is another season that starts off fairly close, especially after Pérez has to miss 2 races early on.
Stroll has a great first half of the season and has a healthy lead from Gasly & Perez. However, much like Raikkonen the previous year, Stroll's season jumps off a cliff with 4 races in a row with no points, pretty much dooming his championship hopes. This leaves Gasly vs Pérez. Gasly puts up a good fight, but the Pérez is unstoppable.

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NO ONE CAN STOP THE MEXICAN MACHINE

Full standings:

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2021 - Race 1

With Pérez finally kicked upstairs, its time for a (hopefully) exciting 2021 season :dance:
We even have a 5th team again, with Alpine joining the fray, with the champion of 2003 & 2005, Mr. Alonso himself.

But who cares about him. Go Tsunoda Go!

Standings:

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2021 - Race 2

Stroll gets his victory snatched by a penalty, leaving him playing 2nd fiddle to the other Alpha Tauri. Even so, he still takes the championship lead.

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2021 - Race 3

A surprisingly good race from Alpine has brought them, as well as Ocon, right into championship contention.
Ocon even jumps up from 4th to take the lead of the championship. Alonso would probably be right up there as well if not for his retirement in Bahrain.
Though it looks like Tsunoda's victory in Bahrain might've been a false dawn, and combined with Vettel's lacklustre performance in general, Alpine might be favourites for the Constructor's here.

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2021

Well its seems like this was a pretty interesting season after all.
As per the last updates, the season starts off as a 3-way fight between Aston, Alpha Tauri & Alpine. Ocon loses the championship lead to Gasly after Azerbaijan and even though Gasly remains the driver to beat for pretty much the rest of the season, Alonso & Ocon are never very far behind. Aston gradually fade way into 3rd place due to lacking the consistency of the Alpines and Gasly.

Alonso does eventually manage to take the championship lead after a victory in Russia but Gasly retakes it with a victory at the very next race, with 2 more victories at Mexico & Sao Paulo effectively putting the championship out of reach of the Alpines.

Alpha Tauri don't have it all their own way however, as Tsunoda continues to act a millstone for the team, especially after Hungary where apart from 2 inexplicable victories, Tsunoda fails to finish above 6th. Of course this hands Alpine the constructors trophy on a silver platter.

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2022

Boy I hope you guys like Alpine. Over 60% of the races are won by Alpine, with Alonso & Ocon winning 7 races each.
However despite the even win tally, Alonso's poor start to the season opens up a gap that Alonso just isn't able to close.
The only other driver who is able to dance with Ocon after the first 3 races (Gasly & Magnussen drop off VERY quickly.) is Bottas.
Bottas even wins 3 races in a row to take the championship lead from Ocon in Spain.

Sadly for Alfa Romeo & Bottas, the performance of the Alfa drops off after Canada and Bottas doesn't land a podium again until basically the end of the season. Ocon takes the lead back at Austria and never looks back.

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2023 - After 5 races

Well, 5 races in and we have one of the most dominant openings to a season we have ever seen in this championship since 2017 with Pérez.
This suggests that we may have a walk-over in favour of:

:dance: MAGIC Alonso De España :dance:

Behind this though, its still all to play for. Stroll's 2nd place is not looking as secure as you would think it should be, with Gasly only a single point behind.

An interesting point thing to note so far is that in 2021, Tsunoda proved to be the millstone for Alpha Tauri, but this year Tsunoda is in the opposite position with de Vries being the millstone instead. We'll see if things improve.

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