Drivers Championship Top 61. Hamilton
2. Verstappen
3. Bottas
4. Ricciardo
5. Perez
6. Leclerc
Constructor Top 51. Mercedes
2. Red Bull
3. McLaren
4. Ferrari
5. Alpine
Constructor - Last PlaceWilliams
Taking into account COVID, and the fact we have 23 races scheduled, with 2 TBA races (Saudi Arabia and Vietnam) How many races will we have in 2021?20
Drivers to be SackedMid-Season: none (but we might see one or two covid stand-ins)
End of the year: see below
Driver Announcements/Silly Season Predictions for 2021-2022- Mercedes cool on Russell and give Bottas another year
- Gasly to Alpine in place of Ocon seems a dead cert at this point
- Albon makes a surprise return to AlphaTauri in place of Gasly
- Vettel has a stinker of a year and the team mutually agree to part ways, allowing Aston to sign Stroll's best buddy Ocon (despite everyone screaming at them to sign Russell)
- The Alfa-Ferrari split leads to Gio and Raikkonen both leaving to be replaced by Lundgaard and Pourchaire for 2021
Any Drivers Retire?Raikkonen (sooner or later this will be right)
Vettel
Surprise WinnerIf we're defining this as anyone other than HAM-BOT-VER:
Ricciardo
Alonso
Leclerc
Best RacesBahrain
Austria
Netherlands
(going for the safe bets that will actually be on this year)
Worst RacesSpain
Russia
Abu Dhabi
Wet RacesNetherlands
Most Disappointing Moments of 2021- Mercedes re-signing Bottas for 2022
- Mazepin's continuing career and the indulgence of his shitty behaviour by the sport
- Vettel continuing to be a shadow of his former self and hoarding a seat that could go to someone with actual motivation
- Ricciardo makes Lando look a bit shit
- Tsunoda and Schumacher don't live up to expectations
Most Exciting Moments of 2021- Those first few races where it might look like we have a title fight on our hands
- Sainz pushes Leclerc harder than expected in the races
- Perez does enough to force Mercedes' hand on enough occasions that we have some interesting races
- Ricciardo, Alonso and Leclerc winning at least one race
- Hopefully Portimao gets that Vietnam slot and we get a good race there again
Make Bold Predictions- Stroll beats Vettel
- Mazepin is seen to have outperformed Schumacher
- Sauber-Renault from 2022
- Latifi is noticeably closer to Russell
- Haas gets a new name and identity for 2022 and Gunther gets the heave-ho
- Monaco gets cancelled again and there are at least serious questions about the future of the event
EDIT: Added Leclerc as a winner - wrote up my reasoning
here