[151] After talks between the FIA and Lotus,[152] the team was allowed to leave Spa with their equipment and cars, and was able to start the following race in Italy.[153]. Ferrari EUR46m2. [121] Honda continued to have reliability issues and, up to the British Grand Prix, suffered nine retirements and two failures to start due to power unit problems, translating to only seven overall finishes out of 18 possible results. Formula 1 presents record 23-race 2021 draft calendar to teams, Saudi Arabia to debut At present there are no back-up plans despite ongoing Covid concerns 15:22 Often the differences in the races were negligible, but that means little in this Pirelli era when very few races can be run flat out anyway. The runner-up was his teammate Nico Rosberg, 59 points behind, with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel third, another 44 points adrift. Yet he remains positive. Lewis Hamilton is third on EUR25 million, although as he is still on his old contract that figure should increase dramatically next season, increasing to over EUR45 million per season, if figures quoted by the media after he signed his new three-year deal with Mercedes are to be believed. [34] Sebastian Vettel left Red Bull Racing at the end of the 2014 season after six years with the team and nine years with its wider junior development programme to join Ferrari in place of Alonso. [4], Several team changes took place before the season began. [157] In the event of a tie, a count-back system was used as a tie-breaker, with a constructor's best result used to decide the standings. His Merc-scaring pace through Spa’s middle sector was amazing to behold and at Singapore, despite the power deficit, he was the only guy able to live with Vettel’s Ferrari and was even able to pressure it until a safety car got Seb off the hook. A 13-second pit stop saw Vettel plummet down the order at Imola, Russell crashed behind the safety car when running 10th at Imola, Austrian is set to dilute his role in 2021, Magnussen missed out on Q2 by a tenth-of-a-second, UK PM Boris Johnson has announced a month-long lockdown for England, Schumacher, Ilott and Shwartzman are vying for F1 promotion, Initial idea is for cap to be set at $30m for each team's driver pairing, Sergio Perez and Nico Hülkenberg are now in the frame, Jan Magnussen competed in CART in the late 1990s. The other change was the cancellation of the German Grand Prix after a venue could not be agreed upon, leaving the nation without a World Championship event for the first time in fifty-five years. He didn’t always manage to do this, but in striving for it he was invariably out of Rosberg’s each – the tone to their season being set at Melbourne where in tricky, changeable conditions Nico couldn’t get within 0.6sec of him. [35] Daniil Kvyat was promoted to Red Bull from Toro Rosso to fill the vacated seat. [61][62] With both venues unwilling to host the event,[63][64] the race was ultimately cancelled, leaving the country off the Grand Prix calendar for the first time since 1960. The number 1 was most recently used by Sebastian Vettel in 2014, with Lewis Hamilton keeping his permanent number 44 after his title wins in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and with Nico Rosberg retiring after his championship win in 2016. [27], Both Caterham F1 and Marussia went into administration towards the end of the 2014 season. F1 2015 Télécharger est la prochaine édition de la populaire série de jeux de course mettant l’accent sur les luttes des pilotes en Formule 1. Read about the latest developments on the 2015 F1 driver market here: Read more articles on 2015 F1 drivers and teams. But then came Pirelli’s tyre pressure/camber changes – and the radically different set-up it imposed on the Mercedes. Mercedes EUR38.5m4. Will Stevens (Has contract)98. He was pressuring Vettel when the Ferrari’s rear tyre exploded, but what’s generally forgotten is that Seb was only ahead through strategy. He’s been fortunate to join the team at a time of a new and productive technical impetus, but just as on track he’s taken that opportunity and built upon it. Rosberg’s strength of character shone through again, placed as he was in that most psychologically demoralising position of having a fantastic car but a faster driver on the other side of the garage. Fernando Alonso McLaren-HondaEUR35m2. The 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 69th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. [52] This was tweaked after the 2015 British Grand Prix with immediate effect, to make demotion to the back of the grid the maximum penalty for engine changes. What is Lewis Hamilton’s greatest F1 victory? Lewis Hamilton was the defending Drivers' Champion after securing his second title at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. McLaren ended their 20-year partnership with Mercedes-Benz, in favour of a return to Honda, who had previously supplied them from 1988 until 1992. [145] Both Hamilton and Mercedes collected their championship trophies at a gala held in Paris on 4 December 2015. Had the season finished at Singapore, Hamilton would have been number one by a big margin. 21 Jul 2015 The annual list of Formula 1 salaries has again been published, and Fernando Alonso is now comfortably top following his move to McLaren … With Rosberg's retirement at the event, Hamilton entered the closing rounds of the season with a lead of fifty-three points over his teammate in the Drivers' Championship standings, the largest gap of the season at that point,[129] while Vettel sat a further twenty-one points behind. Once the car was reconfigured post-Singapore, he was literally never off pole position. [150], Lotus suffered financially throughout the season, culminating in Pirelli withholding their tyres for the Friday practice sessions in Hungary. He’d been on average 0.7sec slower than Rosberg’s Merc – in a Lotus. Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeled auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. [131] Mercedes had built up a 181-point lead over Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship, with Williams in third, 263 points behind the leaders. [36], Toro Rosso changed their entire line-up: along with Kvyat joining Red Bull, the team chose not to renew Jean-Éric Vergne's contract.