Same track, different race, and was it more of the same? Need a quick catch up of the latest F1 race? Our 2020 Styrian F1 Grand Prix result review is here.
In the big review, we include a quick summary of the on track action, and there enough this week.
We also work out who the best and worst of the race was, so we can assign points to our overall 2020 Driver of the year.
Enjoy our 2020 Styrian Grand Prix results review.
2020 Styrian F1 Grand Prix Result – THE LAPS THAT MATTERED
Didn’t see the race live? Don’t have time to watch the whole race? Well here are the top ten laps where stuff happened. Normally it is five, so you know it was a good race if there’s ten.
Lap 1 – Ferrari’s 2020 season goes from bad to worse, as the only casualty on the first lap is Sebastian Vettel, whose car was assaulted by his team mate into turn three. Leclerc snuck up on the inside of his team mate, but instead of slipping past into he bounced up over Vettel’s right rear tyre and bounced into German’s read wing. Vettel crawled to the pits and retired. Ferrari changed Leclerc’s front wing, but he retired not long after. A double zero for Ferrari. Safety Car sent out to clean up the damage. We wonder when the Ferraris and especially Vettel will be worse value for first retirement in betting. Sergio Perez is 15th at this stage – note for later.
Lap 4 – Safety Car buggers off and there’s some decent midfield racing. Such a shame George Russell runs wide whilst battling Stroll.
Lap 28 – Leader Lewis Hamilton pits, loses only a spot to his team mate, and ends up plenty in front of Max Verstappen.
Lap 35-36 – Valtteri Bottas pits, leaving Lewis Hamilton back in front. Albon pits next lap but drops into the midfield battle.
Lap 49 – Perez overtakes Ricciardo for fifth, and is charging his way to the top four.
Lap 60 – battle looming between McLaren drivers, and given the Ferrari efforts, it could be worth watching. Bottas catching Max Verstappen for P2.
Lap 66 – 67– Bottas overtakes Max who overtakes him back on lap 66. But the Finn gets him back a lap later.
Lap 71 – Stroll, Ricciardo, Norris battle for 6th place. Lando Norris started lap 70 in 8th place – by the time they made the finish line, they had caught Sergio Perez who was going slow because of a broken front wing after a clash with Alex Albon the lap before.
2020 Styrian F1 Grand Prix – RACE RATING
We rate the 2020 Styrian F1 Grand Prix so we know which races to go back and watch in the off season.
SEASON IMPORTANCE – 8/10
A few points of interest. Ferrari look incapable of a season long title challenge, either through outright pace or racecraft. The pace of Lewis Hamilton showing he is up for another title challenge.
The pace of the Racing Point aka Pink Mercedes must be a concern for every other team except for Mercedes.
A side interest was the struggles of Alex Albon, and when Red Bull will fire him. He was 14 seconds from the car in front (Bottas) after just 19 laps.
ON TRACK ACTION – 7/10
A first lap crash between the two Ferraris brought a little action early, and a point of interest.
Some decent midfield racing throughout, team mate battles, back not a great of action up the front.
The middle of the race was a little like overs 20-40 of One Day cricket. Simply ticking boxes until you get to the good bits.
Perez one of the hardest chargers. Up to 11th from 15th in four laps after the first safety car. 9th before lap 20.
The season has lost nothing having the same track host two races in a row.
ENDING 8 / 10
Not quite as much as the first race at Red Bull Ring, but plenty to keep those outside of Europe awake until the end. Lando Norris in particular made his own luck in the end with some fine overtaking, and taking advantage of Stroll’s ambitious attempt to overtake Ricciardo on the last lap.
OVERALL RATING 23 / 30
Not a bad follow up to the action packed first race. Was a little processional in the middle, but the ned made up for it.
2020 Styrian F1 Grand Prix Result – Great & Grape
Here we go through the field and highlight the three drivers we think deserve a little extra love, and one driver whose had the weekend of all.
These points get added to our Driver of the Season.
It used to be called the good, bad and ugly, but everyone is using that now.
THE GREAT – 1. Lewis Hamilton
His pole lap on Saturday was worth a nomination in this group, but he ran a decent race from the front in the Styrian Grand Prix and never really loooked likely to be headed. Kept a comfortable gap to the chasers throughout the race, and the worry is about if he was holding anything back, for those looking for a Championship battle for a change.
THE GREAT – 2. Sergio Perez
Great drive from down in the field. A result for Perez which usually only comes with a wet race, or there’s been a lot of accidents.
THE GREAT – 3. Lando Norris
For the late race action.
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
George Russell – for his efforts in qualifying.
Max Verstappen – at least his car made it this week. Whilst being off the ultimate pace set up by Hamilton a little,, at least he will be in position to take advantage. if the Mercedes every break down.
Valterri Bottas – for a meh race that still grabs him a podium and keeps the Championship lead.
Daniel Ricciardo – for giving his Aussie supporters something to cheer for.
THE GRAPE – Sebastian Vettel
Missed out on Q3 through sheer lack of pace, and his race was eventful again, for as long as it lasted, which was under a lap.. Can see 2020 being the last season on current form even more so this week.
DISHONOURABLE MENTIONS
Charles Leclerc – for wiping out his team mate on the first lap, which eventually led to his own demise a few laps later.
2020 Styrian F1 Grand Prix – 2020 Driver of the Year – The Martini Trophy
A feature on this website is determining the driver of the year.
This recognises not just the driver with the most amount of points at the end of the year, but factoring performance against their team mate, possibly outperforming the car, and a nod to our Great and Grape above. A full explanation is below the results.
The Martini Trophy is named after one of our favourite F1 drivers of all time, the underrated Pierluigi Martini.
2020 Austrian Grand Prix Results
Top qualifiers are awarded 3-2-1
Top finishes are awarded 5-4-3-2-1
Out-Race team mate only applies if they both cars finish
Best of Rest is the top driver not from Mercedes, Red Bull, Ferrari in race and qualifying
FirstLap is 0.2 / -0.2 for every position gained / lost on the first lap.
Good and Grape points are award 3-2-1 and -1 for drivers.
2020 Driver of the Year Points so far
2020 Styrian F1 Grand Prix Result – Quirks
We love the name of the GP being Styrian Grand Prix, and it then we thought about our favourite GPs that had different names to the regular country the track is in.
San Marino GP in Italy.
Luxembourg GP in Germany
Pacific GP in Japan
Swiss GP in France
Caesar’s Palace GP – USA
2020 Styrian F1 Grand Prix Result Stats
Here’s a few of our favourite graphs from the first race of the season that we will update throughout the year.
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