He loves a meme, does young Lando, but there’s much more to him than his humorous public persona: he’s also very handy behind the wheel.
Last year: 5th | Our rating: 8/10 Lando Norris - McLaren-Mercedes Expect that smile to get even wider with a Mercedes engine behind it this year. He consummately beat team-mate Esteban Ocon, always looked sharp and scored two highly impressive podiums in what was realistically only the fifth best car. The fun-loving fan favourite looked rejuvenated last year, however, despite the awkwardness of him announcing his departure for rival team McLaren before the season could even start. Ricciardo was the golden boy at Red Bull, the future star – until Verstappen came along, after which he jumped ship to Renault and a poor 2019 poured water on his hot reputation. Last year: 4th | Our rating: 10/10 Daniel Ricciardo - McLaren-Mercedes He still occasionally lets his determination-slash-frustration get the better of his wiser judgement, but isn’t that burning passion exactly what fans want to see? If Hamilton loses the title this year, it will surely be to this man. Red Bull has centred around him, and he paid back that faith with 11 podiums, including two wins, from 17 races in 2020. Viscerally exciting and blessed with an ability to drag a frightfully tricky car to marvellous results, Verstappen is widely regarded as the possessor of the fastest raw pace on the grid. Last year: 2nd | Our rating: 5/10 Max Verstappen - Red Bull-Hondaį1 fans would love nothing more than to see the Flying Dutchman as Hamilton’s team-mate. He simply has to really transform himself this year, otherwise… He won just two races to Hamilton’s 11 and was outperformed by emergency stand-in Russell at the penultimate Sakhir Grand Prix.
His ‘Valtteri 2.0’ efforts faded throughout 2019 and Valtteri 3.0 never showed up last year. It’s probably more an indication of how supremely good Hamilton is, rather than an indictment of Bottas’s talent, that the Finn has in four seasons never looked like having a chance at the title, because we know that he’s far from a laggard. Last year: 1st | Our rating: 10/10 Valtteri Bottas - Mercedes-AMG
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