Formula 1 produced a season like no other in 2021 and we’ve done our best to review it all in our 90-minute end-of-year podcast.
Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton battled for the championship from the start of the Bahrain Grand Prix to the very final lap in Abu Dhabi. To look over the excitement, the drama, the many controversies and the occasional mistake, Chris Medland is joined by Motor Sport’s F1 Editor Mark Hughes and Contributing Editor Damien Smith.
As well as the championship battle and their verdicts on the Silverstone and Monza collisions, plus that final lap in Abu Dhabi, our panel examine at the midfield fight, and look ahead to the 2022 season and Formula 1’s new regulations.
Right in the middle of facing unprecedented challenges from the outside world and just at the moment it most needed it, Formula 1 served up a truly epic season. It…
A Middle Eastern three-race flourish to this most astonishingly closely fought championship – with the outcome decided on the last lap of the last race, just as in 2008, but…
Forget for a moment, if you can, the way the outcome of the Abu Dhabi finale – and therefore of the whole championship – was decided. Let’s just focus on…
In the end Mercedes withdrew its appeal contesting the result of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, but what happened there was wrong. There may be ways of justifying it with…
My verdict on the last-lap shootout that decided the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship? The FIA needs to have a hard think about how it operates grands prix. This should…
1. Max Verstappen 9.998 Stunning combination of speed and racecraft, totally fearless, incredible tenacity and ability to comeback from adversity. Only one real error all season. 2. Lewis…
