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[137] Vettel capitalised on the results with third and second-place finishes respectively, to take second place in the Drivers' Championship from Rosberg with four rounds remaining, while Hamilton extended his lead to sixty-six points, the highest lead he had held in the season. The first 13 races of 2015 were very impressive, scoring two podiums and being the faster of the two Williams’. [35] Daniil Kvyat was promoted to Red Bull from Toro Rosso to fill the vacated seat. [26] This ended a 20-year involvement of Renault with the Enstone-based team, (which operated as Benetton from 1992 until 2001, as Renault from 2002 until 2011 and as Lotus from 2012 until 2015) after being an engine supplier to Benetton since 1995, and being the owner of the team from 2002 to 2010. His ability to manipulate the car and make very few mistakes, and be quick is very impressive. Read about the latest developments on the 2015 F1 driver market here: Read more articles on 2015 F1 drivers and teams. Sebastian Vettel, who at one time was within three points of the lead, after his victory in Malaysia, and who was the only non-Mercedes winner after eleven rounds, could not overcome team errors in Canada and Austria, and fell fifty-nine points off the pace of Hamilton after round nine. [124] The two would trade victories between rounds six and nine, closing the gap to as little as ten points. It was the first season since 1994, when Alain Prost retired from the sport following his fourth and final World Drivers' Championship title in 1993, that the field did not contain a number one car. [150], Lotus suffered financially throughout the season, culminating in Pirelli withholding their tyres for the Friday practice sessions in Hungary. [113] As a result, Hamilton's lead over Rosberg in the Drivers' Championship was cut in half, to just ten points. [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. [73] Drivers were also no longer permitted to change the design of their helmet in-season.
RaceFans > 2015 F1 season > 2015 F1 drivers and teams. [32][33] Following an accident during pre-season testing, Alonso withdrew from the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, and Magnussen returned as his temporary replacement.
[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.
Here it is folks! Had he not spun in Silverstone, he would have finished third. [96], With McLaren's longest continuous testing session lasting twelve laps in Montmeló – a total of 56 kilometres (35 mi), a sixth of a total Grand Prix distance – before running into engine trouble, Honda elected to detune the power units for the opening Grands Prix in an effort to improve reliability and longevity while the manufacturer worked to improve these areas before homologation. [106] Merhi was able to finish the race three laps down in fifteenth, while Stevens did not start. The Mexican has been one of the stars of 2015. Further penalties could be applied if the stewards believed the driver was aware of this and attempted to drive the car regardless.
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[80][81] Subsequent regulation changes allowed the team to use a modified 2014 chassis which met updated safety and dimensional limits.
18-year old Max Verstappen impressed throughout while the McLaren-Honda partnership did not perform as expected. The standings are sorted by best result, rows are not related to the drivers. [87] Magnussen relinquished his seat back to Alonso in Malaysia;[99] both cars qualified ahead of only the Manor Marussia cars and eventually retired. The 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 69th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. [102], Following a tumultuous pre-season in which they went through a period of administration and were saved by late investment, Manor Marussia arrived in Melbourne with a car that had passed its mandatory crash tests but had completed no testing. The runner-up was his teammate Nico Rosberg, 59 points behind, with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel third, another 44 points adrift. Vettel held off Hamilton for second and third, respectively. He convincingly out-scored highly rated teammate Nico Hulkenberg and scored Force India’s third ever podium in Mexico. [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]. Here is our top 10 drivers of the 2015 Formula One season: A solid, consistent year for Felipe Massa. [92] Manor Marussia continued to show signs of consistency, with both cars qualifying within 107%, starting, and finishing both Grands Prix in China and Bahrain. Belgian authorities later moved to impound the assets of Lotus for four days following Grosjean's podium finish. [83] On physicians' advice, Alonso elected to sit out the opening round in Australia, prompting the team to replace him with Kevin Magnussen for the race. [66] This was tweaked after the 2015 British Grand Prix, with new power unit manufacturers being allowed one other power unit in their first season of competition; the only manufacturer affected in the 2015 season was Honda, who were allowed to take advantage of the rule even though it had been introduced after the season had begun. The latter win was aided by the result of a costly miscalculation by the Mercedes team to pit Hamilton with a 19-second lead during a safety car period (that briefly saw the use of the "Virtual Safety Car" for the first time in F1's history) with 14 laps remaining.
[108][110] With 107 points, the team returned to Europe 52 points behind Mercedes, and 46 points ahead of Williams, who were third. Your email address will be stored by Read Motorsport so that we can send you Read Motorsport updates by email. [40][41] Gutiérrez and Sutil went on to join Ferrari and Williams respectively as reserve drivers. 2015 F1 Drivers. Australia 15 mar 2. [136][137] He was passed by Hamilton on the opening corner in Japan[136] and retired on lap seven in Russia. Fernando Alonso replaced Kevin Magnussen at McLaren, returning to the team after he last raced for them in 2007. Felipe Nasr (Has contract), Test/reserve/third driversRaffaele Marciello, 28. [25] Honda had been absent for seven years: they had provided British American Racing and Jordan Grand Prix with engines until they purchased the former in 2006 and then had competed as a constructor until 2008. His team, Mercedes, began the season as the defending Constructors' Champion, having clinched its first championship title at the 2014 Russian Grand Prix.
This was a change of the previous practice which required the unlapped cars to have caught up with the back of the pack before the safety car could return to the pit lane. Ferrari won the inaugural DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award. [52], The rules regarding qualifying and the start times of some races were tweaked. [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. For the video game based on the 2015 Formula One season, see, 66th season of FIA Formula One World Championship, Comparison between the configuration of the, World Constructors' Championship standings. [70] The ban on front-and-rear interconnected suspension systems (FRIC) that had been implemented in the middle of the 2014 season was formalised, with the regulations stating that the front and rear suspension had to be designed in such a way that any change in performance had to be a direct result of a change in load applied solely to them. You can unsubscribe at any time. [122][123], The Drivers' Championship remained closely contested between leader Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, with the gap between them never larger than twenty-eight points after Hamilton's victory in round eleven in Belgium.
It obliged drivers to reduce their speed to match one indicated on the displays on their steering wheels. Like Williams teammate Massa, a solid, consistent year for Bottas. [52] In light of a regulation introduced in 2014 dictating that a race could not run for more than four hours and following recommendations from the report into Jules Bianchi's accident the previous season, the start times of five Grands Prix were moved forward by an hour so races did not start with less than four hours until dusk. The latter became the youngest driver to make a Formula One début, at the age of 17 years, 164 days when he started the season.
[54] The circuit was substantially reconfigured to accommodate the sport's return. [27], Both Caterham F1 and Marussia went into administration towards the end of the 2014 season. Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen collected three post-season awards for Rookie of the Year, Personality of the Year and Action of the Year (for his overtake on Felipe Nasr through Blanchimont corner at the Belgian Grand Prix). DRIVERS - The official home of Formula 1® | F1.com ... Standings The final list of drivers for the 2015 season for a thrilling season. Stay up-to-date on the 2015 F1 driver line-up with F1 Fanatic.
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