Posted January 5 (edited) Although the 2020 season finished less than a month ago it’s time to get ready for 2021. Let’s take a look at what’s planned for this year: Spoiler 12th-14th March - Bahrain International Circuit Spoiler Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team (2nd March) - [44] Lewis Hamilton - [77] Valtteri Bottas Red Bull Racing (Launch TBC) - [11] Sergio Perez - [33] Max Verstappen McLaren F1 Team (15th February) - [3] Daniel Ricciardo - [4] Lando Norris Aston Martin F1 Team (TBC) - [5] Sebastien Vettel - [18] Lance Stroll Alpine F1 Team (Launch TBC) - [14] Fernando Alonso - [31] Esteban Ocon Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow (10th March) - [16] Charles Leclerc - [55] Carlos Sainz Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda (19th February) - [10] Pierre Gasly - [22] Yuki Tsunoda Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen (Launch: February 22nd) - [7] Kimi Räikkönen - [99] Antonio Giovinazzi Haas F1 Team (Launch TBC) - [9] Nikita Mazepan - [47] Mick Schumacher Williams Racing (5th March) - [6] Nicholas Latifi - [63] George Russell Spoiler 21 March – Australia (Melbourne) 28 March – Bahrain (Sakhir) 11 April – China (Shanghai) 25 April – TBC (TBC) 9 May – Spain (Barcelona) 23 May – Monaco (Monaco) 6 June – Azerbaijan (Baku) 13 June – Canada (Montreal) 27 June – France (Le Castellet) 4 July – Austria (Spielberg) 18 July – United Kingdom (Silverstone) 1 August – Hungary (Budapest) 29 August – Belgium (Spa) 5 September – Netherlands (Zandvoort) 12 September – Italy (Monza) 26 September – Russia (Sochi) 3 October – Singapore (Singapore) 10 October – Japan (Suzuka) 24 October – USA (Austin) 31 October – Mexico (Mexico City) 14 November – Brazil (Sao Paulo) 28 November – Saudi Arabia (Jeddah) 5 December – Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi) Will keep the above updated as more is available. I really enjoyed 2020 and hope this season will be another close midfield battle. It would be great if Mercedes can be reigned in a little but given the minimal rule changes this year I think that’s very unlikely. Things I’m looking forward to: Hamilton becoming the (statistically) outright greatest of all time. I’m not a fan but glad he’s the one doing it. The return of Alonso, my all time favourite driver. With the progress of Renault/Alpine I can see him winning a race this year. McLaren continuing their good form and Ricciardo maybe getting back on the top of the podium. More random things happening due to the ongoing pandemic situation. Of course with the avoidance of any harm to people. Schumacher in F1 and hopefully doing well. Mazepan hopefully being gone soon. More great stuff from Russell and the deserved promotion to Mercedes for 2022. I enjoyed doing the predictions for 2020 and want to continue something. Not sure whether we do something similar to last year of just forum predictions or find a fantasy league to take part in? Any suggestions on that one? What are you all looking forward to this year? Edited February 17 by Will 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 11 Looks like some interesting moves on the calendar are being talked about: Australia being postponed Portugal replacing China Imola replacing Vietnam It will be a big shame if we don’t get an Australian GP again, if they don’t do it on the proposed slot I really doubt they will do it at all. The other two replacements I think I prefer to the original plans. Given things seem like they’re going to get worse before they get better I can totally see another jumbled up race calendar, at least in the first half of the year. I almost wish F1 could be like this every year. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted February 5 I set up a N-Europe Fantasy League for us. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted February 17 (edited) A bit of old news but we have the first car for 2021: Nothing particularly unexpected but continues to look great IMO. Spoiler Edited February 17 by Will 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted February 23 On 2/5/2021 at 12:35 AM, Will said: I set up a N-Europe Fantasy League for us. Cool, I think that'll be more fun than predictions as forgetting to play a round won't be such a big deal. Would be interesting to see how this worked previous seasons, is picking Hamilton in your team pretty much essential to be competitive? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted February 24 This page seems to have some interesting info on the fantasy scoring. Basically I think you have to choose Hamilton to stand a chance of winning, and then your other drivers need to average better than their regular competitors for where you will specifically finish. Maybe if you average out the mid-field guys you could stand a chance of winning but I think more likely to yield a good result is having Hamilton in there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
