Part 1 of Formula 1 2021 Season Review (the teams)

Two parter Formula One season review of the 2021 season. In this post I will review each team of 2021. Which, I will say one sentence that will be positive with each team. And one sentence that will be negative for each team. So starting with Red Bull below.

Red Bull:
+ Eleven wins from Red Bull, which includes a Grand Prix win for Sergio Pérez at Baku; and ten wins for Max Verstappen includes wins at Imola, Monaco, Paul Ricard, both Red Bull Ring rounds, Spa, Zandvoort, Austin, Mexico City and Yas Marina to conclude to win the 2021 F1 Drivers' Championship to win his first F1 World Drivers Championship title and becoming the first Dutch driver to win the Formula One World Championship.
- Verstappen missed out on three race wins at Bahrain (going onto a two stopper instead of one), Barcelona (Hamilton on fresh tyres) and Baku (puncture late on); while Pérez non scored a few times mid-season cost the team the Constructors' Championship for 2021.

Mercedes:
+ An eighth Constructors' Title in a row with includes Nine Grand Prix wins for Sir Lewis Hamilton (eight wins) and Valtteri Bottas (one win).
- Hamilton missing out on wins at Baku, Paul Ricard, the Hungaroring (Mercedes fault) and Yas Marina (Micheal Masi fault) that cost Hamilton the Drivers' Championships this season.

Ferrari:
+ Some great race performances from both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, Jr., which includes second place finishes for Leclerc at Silverstone and Sainz, Jr. at Monaco; only 131 points at this stage last season, 323.5 points this season at this stage to finish third in the Constructors', a much better improvement from Ferrari.
- The team missed out on wins for Leclerc at Monaco (on pole for race, DNS because of a Driveshaft problem that wasn't fixed from qualifying) and at Silverstone (late charge from Hamilton to take the win); the Ferrari Power-Units are still around 15-20bhp less than the Mercedes and Honda Power-Units.

McLaren:
+ Grand Prix win for Daniel Ricciardo at Monza with Lando Norris finishing second in that race, some great race performances from Lando Norris, which include three third places finish for Norris at Imola, Monaco and Red Bull Ring II.
- Lando Norris should have won at Sochi; despite the team scored 275 points compared to 202 points last season the team finihsed only fourth in the Constructors' after winning at Monza, not acceptable from the team like McLaren.

Alpine:
+ Grand Prix win for Esteban Ocon at the Hunganoring, a returning Fernando Alonso making strong performances which includes finishing fourth at the Hunganoring and third place finish at Qatar.
- Fifth in the Constructor's once again with 155 points this season compare to 181 points last season (as Renault); A521 (basically an evaluation of the R.S.19 from 2019) is showing its age, 2022 car needs to be massive improvement if Alpine going to win once again.

Scuderia AlphaTauri:
+ Some impressive performances from Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda this season which include a third place finish for Gasly at Baku, two fourth place finishes at Zandvoort, Mexico City and a fourth place finish for Tsunoda at Yas Marina.
- Despite the team finished sixth in the Constructor's with 142 points (compare to 107 points in 2021), poor performances at Monza, Sochi and Qatar cost the team fifth in the Constructor's this season.

Aston Martin:
+Second place finish for Sebastian Vettel at Baku and second on the road (later DSQ) at the Hunganoring.
- AMR21 has been poor in qualifying which effect their race results, seventh in the Constructors' with 77 points this season compare to 195 points at this stage last season (as Racing Point), the team need to do better going into the 2022 season.

Williams:
+ Some impressive performances from George Russell this season, which include strong performances at Imola, Paul Ricard, both Red Bull Ring rounds, the Hunganoring, Monza; and a second place finish at Spa; while the team best finish came at the Hunganoring with a seventh place finish for Nicholas Latifi and a eighth place finish for Russell, meaning the team scored for the first time in over two seasons, 23 points compared to 0 points from last season, a much better improvement from Williams.
- Russell should have scored points at Imola, both Red Bull Ring rounds and at Silverstone, the team is heavily relying on Russell to score points looks like Alex Albon will be the bread-winner going into 2022 as Russell is off to Mercedes in 2022; and the death of Team Founder Sir Frank Williams back in late November.

Alfa Romeo:
+ Some impressive performances from Kimi Räikkönen (despite turning 42 back in October) this season which include eighth place finishes at Sochi and Mexico City.
- Despite 13 points this season (only 8 points in 2020), despite the car is eighth best car for most of the season; the team finished ninth in the Constructor's; the team need to do better going into the 2022 season.

Haas:
+ Twelfth place finish for Mick Schumacher at the Hungaroring.
- Where to start, the team scored 0 points compared to 3 point last season (first time as team haven't scored points in a season in their history), concluded with tenth in the Constructors'; VF-21 is basically the VF-20 underneath, the car hasn't been developed since Imola, the team has been focusing on the 2022 car instead, a season to forget for Haas.

In part 2 of Formula 1 2021 Season Review my top 12 Formula 1 drivers of 2021. And my final thoughts of Formula 1 2021.