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Despite having late start, the 2020 Formula 1 world championship have created some biggest winners and losers, and here are my pick: 1. Winners: Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen The big three dominated the season with more wins and podiums than other drivers. Hamilton has more wins and podiums (11 wins and 14 podiums) than his rivals Bottas (2 wins and 11 podiums) and Verstappen (2 wins and 11 podiums) to secure his seventh world title. The Mercedes drivers also traded more pole positions than other teams 2. Losers: Charles Leclerc, Sebastian Vettel and George Russell Those drivers started the season very poor, but they attempted to score more points but lesser podiums than the big three above. 3. Winners: Mercedes, Red Bull, McLaren, Renault and Racing Point These constructors have shown so many progresses and advantage for their own cars, developing their cars which accelerate faster and higher performances than the 2019 season. 4. Losers: Ferrari-powere...

The 2020 Formula 1 season was originally scheduled for 22 grands prix, including the newly added Vietnam GP and the returning Dutch GP. But due to the start of COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 season which originally started from Australian GP in March had been postponed indefinetely. As the result the FIA canceled 12 scheduled grand prix rounds in response of COVID-19 outbreak. Later on May, FIA announced that the 2020 F1 world championship would be started in July from Austrian GP and announced back-to-back grands prix at the same circuit (Austrian and Styrian GPs at Red Bull Ring, British and 70th Anniversary GPs at Silverstone, and Bahrain and Sakhir GPs at Sakhir International Circuit with different track layout). And in August, FIA announced that the 2020 season will be held for 17 rounds of world championship, including the addition of the newly added Eifel GP in Germany, the Emilia Romagna GP in Italy, and the returning Portuguese and Turkish Grands Prix. All rounds (exc...