F1 2020 review1/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Lewis Hamilton celebrates with a tribute to actor Chadwick Boseman in Parc Ferme during the Belgian GP (Credit: Racer) Out of the 34 possible poles and wins for the season, Mercedes had 29 of them. 2020 felt like a throwback to 2014, but you reversed the colours on the Instagram filter. Okay, the 2019 Ferrari may not have been totally above board, but Mercs not winning a race wasn’t a massive surprise anymore. The last couple of years had seen some of Mercedes trademark hybrid-turbo dominance pegged a tad. ![]() Remember at the start of the year when there was so much fury on their Dual Access Steering on the wheel during testing? It feels like it was half a decade ago. Created a new partnership with a school group to promote children of colour into STEM careers.Were the only team in the field honest enough to publish figures on the make of their largely white and male team, and committed to diversity and sensitivity training, as well as promising that 25% of their new employees will be of an ethnic background by 2025.Repainted their car black for this season and the next, promoting change.More on #WeRaceAsOne at the end of the piece, but of everyone’s response, Mercedes have: You can be the cynic and call it cashing in off virtue signalling (they’ll always be an element of that on the table), but they’ve been the only team that appears to have given even half a damn about the social constructs of their sport. So without further ado, let’s talk about the reigning Champions first, Mercedes.įirst and foremost, I have to give Mercedes some heavy praise. Now the dust has settled on one of the most hectic, condensed, and arguably one of its most important seasons in recent times, I thought it would be fun to do… almost exactly what I did for MotoGP back in November, and look at the situation team-by-team, talk about their seasons, their future in the final season before the 2022 regulation changes, and the sport as a whole. After the ugly weekend in Melbourne where a team withdrew and lines of fans were just a few feet away from a potential outbreak, it’s hard to imagine eight months later, we’d get an old-school, 17 race calendar in. It’s been a rough year for just about everyone in 2020.
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