It takes a rare combination of talent and effort to win a major sporting title, but it requires a particularly unusual quantity of both to defeat all challengers year after year. We’ve looked at some of the champions who maintained the highest level of dominance over a period of 10 years.
Lewis Hamilton claimed a controversial win on home turf in Britain but Max Verstappen is expected to bounce straight back in our Hungarian Grand Prix predictions. The Red Bull driver was left seething after being shunted off the track by his title rival at Silverstone.
Lewis Hamilton has won six of the last seven races at Silverstone but is hard to fancy ahead of Max Verstappen in this year’s British Grand Prix predictions. Red Bull made it five straight victories in 2021 when dominating the Austrian double-header.
After cleaning up on Max Verstappen in the last couple of races, we’re looking at some different markets for our Austrian Grand Prix predictions. The flying Dutchman finished an incredible 35.743 seconds clear of Lewis Hamilton at the Red Bull Ring last weekend.
Max Verstappen struck a psychological blow when reeling in Lewis Hamilton last weekend and gets the nod again in our Styrian Grand Prix predictions. Mercedes had dominated the previous two runnings of the French Grand Prix but were outpaced all weekend by Red Bull this time.
Max Verstappen was an unlucky loser in Azerbaijan but is tipped to gain quick compensation in our French Grand Prix predictions. The flying Dutchman was on course to follow up his Monaco success with another win in Baku until a tyre failure robbed him of victory.
A revamped 2021 Formula 1 season is now scheduled to start with the Bahrain Grand Prix in March and is currently set to end in Abu Dhabi in December. F1 announced an updated 23-race calendar, although the Singapore GP was subsequently cancelled.
Lewis Hamilton endured a miserable weekend in Monaco but is expected to bounce straight back in our Azerbaijan Grand Prix predictions. The seven-time world champion has shown time and time again that he is at his most dangerous when wounded and losing the title lead will have hurt badly.
Max Verstappen was described as a ‘sitting duck’ when passed late on by Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona but is fancied to hit back in our Monaco Grand Prix predictions. The set-up in Spain always promised to suit Mercedes but Red Bull may find conditions more to their liking in the principality.
Lando Norris has made a superb start to the 2021 Formula One season and we’re looking to keep him on side in our Spanish Grand Prix predictions. The 21-year-old McLaren driver is currently lying third in the driver standings after finishing fourth, third and fifth in the opening three races.
Max Verstappen made amends for a moderate qualifying effort at Imola with a stylish victory on race day and is rated the man to beat in our Portuguese Grand Prix predictions. The Dutchman got off to a flying start in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix and never looked back once moving up from third to first.
Lewis Hamilton outwitted Max Verstappen to claim victory in Bahrain and is again fancied to find a way to win in our Emilia Romagna Grand Prix predictions. The seven-time world champion was outpaced in qualifying by the young pretender to his throne but got his tactics right on race day.
With the 2021 Formula One World Championship now under way, we have looked at the numbers behind each circuit in this season’s calendar. We have studied every Grand Prix since the turn of the century up to the end of 2020 and when analysing race data, we have excluded any venue which has hosted fewer than five events.
Red Bull impressed in testing ahead of the new Formula One season and Max Verstappen is fancied to make a flying start in Bahrain. Both Lewis Hamilton and team-mate Valtteri Bottas struggled with the handling of the revamped Mercedes car during final preparations at this track.