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UNIQUE Formula 1 season 2018

What was so unique about the 2018 season that didn’t happen before her and even after her, that she made history?

All 20 racers in the picture, posing before the finals, drove all the races in the 2018 season - Photo: HB Press

We had it last season record number of races, 22 were taken by racers of the royal motorsport class, and this year Formula 1 greats are adding another to them. Season 2021 she was tense, exciting, right drama and crime at the end with the final race GP Abu Dhabi and the famous last lap that still rages spirits and causes loss of appetite and insomnia in the apostles of one of those involved in the fight for the title of champion.

But let's take a step back in the recent past, let's go back to the year 2018, a Formula 1 season that has gone down in history with many things. Of course there is no one flew through the air in the finish, no one won the title for 0,15 points or something more surprising or bizarre, for it was all decided after the summer break, when Mercedes stepped on the gas and Ferrari showed that all their efforts were in vain. No, the 20 racers of that season managed something unique.

Sergei Sirotkin is one of the 2018 racers to win points in the 20 season, although the Russian never landed in the top ten, but thanks to Grosjean’s disqualification at Monza, he advanced from 11th place to 10th.

We are witnesses again and again for exampleto racers they miss some race because of diseases (recently it was a coronavirus), or injuries after collisions, also due to money, who went for their performances, or in the other direction to say goodbye to the racer because his sponsor he was not a regular and timely payer of liabilities. But in 2018, that wasn’t the case, because all 20 racers, which appeared on introductory races season, it also stood at the start of last final races. And they all drove away all races!! Something unique that the 2018 season has to offer.

But that's not all, the matter is escalating. Years 2018 all the racers won at least one point!! And now small an unusual case: one of 20 racers never did not come honey the top ten!! You’re probably wondering how the hell could 20 racers score points? The matter is as follows: Sergei Sirotkin, a racer at the time Williams, is in Monza won 11th place, however, because he was Romain Grosjean subsequently disqualified, Sirotkin advanced to tenth place and looked forward to the point.

One might dispute the statistics and the fact that all racers started and finished the season without transfers and substitutions, but this year only the name of the Force India team was changed to Racing Point and racers Ocon and Perez remained in the same cars and even in the same external image.

Of course it's in the year 2018 came to changes during the season, but this does not affect the statistics we mention. Because there was no transition one racer to another team, but the team Force India due to the new owner renamed to Racing Point. So they are racers Esteban Ocon in Sergio Perez remained in the same race cars, even the color scheme remained the same, only the name of the team was different.

In 2018, all 20 racers scored at least one point, but in 1989, 29 racers won points in one season.

And another at the edge of the number 20, how many racers have usually been at the start of a Formula 1 race in recent years more racers? Yes, summer 1952when he officially took part in the race 76 racers. And as already mentioned, in 2018 he won points 20 racers, and that's not a record. This dates back to the year 1989when he scored points in one season 29 racers.

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