won the unofficial “best of the rest” constructor and driver titles, respectively, and Sainz did it with a sixth place finish in the standings, not a seventh. Their constructor title was their sixth in a row and made them the second team in Formula 1 history to win six in a row Ferrari won six in a row from 1999 to 2004. Mercedes dominated the constructor standings, finishing well clear of Ferrari and Red Bull Racing with 15 victories compared to their three apiece. ![]() He won two races to become the first first-time winner since Verstappen in 2016, beating teammate Sebastian Vettel, who won just one. Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas won four races after entering the season with three career wins, all in the 2017 season, while Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen won three races after entering the season with five career wins and a career-high of two in a single season.įerrari’s Charles Leclerc entered the season with a career-high finish of sixth place, as he spent his rookie season in 2018 driving for Sauber before receiving a promotion to Ferrari to replace 2007 champion Kimi Raikkonen ahead of the 2019 campaign. While Hamilton tied his career-high single-season win total, the three drivers who won multiple races all set new career-highs in wins. Hamilton has now taken the checkered flag on 84 occasions, while Schumacher managed to do so 91 times over the course of his legendary career.Īside of Hamilton, four other drivers won at least one race in the 2019 season, with three of them winning multiple races. With another 11-win season in 2019, the third of his career and the second in a row, and a sixth straight season with at least nine victories, Hamilton is also poised to break Schumacher’s all-time wins record next year. Formula 1: New favorite emerges after surprising Miami qualifyingĪs a result, Hamilton is now a six-time champion, bringing him to within one title of Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of seven, a record that he is favored to match in 2020. ![]()
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