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You win the opening race? Then you probably won't be World Champion
Just a few more days and the new Formula 1 season will start in Bahrain. It is the first time that the season starts in Bahrain and the second time in the last ten years that the season does not start in Australia.
Six winners in ten years
Ahead of the Bahren Grand Prix we dive into the statistics of the past ten opening races. First of all, it is remarkable that there are six different winners in ten years. Sebastian Vettel managed to win the opening race the most times, in 2011, 2017 and 2018. In addition, five different constructors managed to win the opening race. There, Mercedes is the team with the most wins. In 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020.
Start-up problems for Lewis Hamilton?
Despite Mercedes' many victories, Lewis Hamilton only managed to win the opening race of the season once in the last ten years, in 2015. So it looks like the seven-time world champion will have to get into it at the start of the season.
Not a world champion
It's mainly to do with the fact that Hamilton rarely wins the opening race, but in the last ten years it has only happened three times that the winner of the opening race that season also becomes the world champion. The last time was in 2016 with Nico Rosberg. So the chances of winning the opening race and becoming world champion are statistically very small. Hoping Hamilton wins in Bahrain then...?
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