COVID-19 disrupted the 2020 season, resulting in a delayed and shortened calendar, but Norris took a significant step forward in terms of his performance. His online popularity off-track, with his gaming streams during the lockdown, matched the ability he showed on the circuit.

Tras el choque, Pérez no conquistaría volver a la pista por lo que tuvo que abandonar y no puedo sumar puntos importantes para la pelea del tercer emplazamiento con Bottas.[165]​

El primer piloto de Audi para su nuevo proyecto en Fórmula 1, Nico Hulkenberg, ha sacado pecho de la situación y ha realizado unas declaraciones que parecen apuntar directamente a Carlos Sainz, nuevo fichaje del equipo Williams.

Looking back on his first half-season in the series, Piastri admitted that his Spa result "was a pretty distant dream" at the start of the year.

Leclerc was left pasado on older tyres with Verstappen and Hamilton having a tyre advantage. In response to Verstappen's hard compound, McLaren had Norris pit for hards, with Verstappen overcoming his brake issue to achieve his 50th career win, ahead of Hamilton and Norris, who were closing in on him.[139] Post-race scrutineering determined that Hamilton and Leclerc's skid blocks were excessively worn, disqualifying them; this promoted Sainz to the podium and Logan Sargeant to his first career point, at his home race.[140]

Piastri looked set for a low-key inauguración season with McLaren Triunfador his team missed its development targets for its 2023 car and started off the season on the back foot.

“With the start, the strategy, the qualifying, judging the tyres and all of this stuff, the smaller things that you don’t get to see, it's what got us this podium today, so it’s lovely to see.

Verstappen recorded his first podium result on his Nasa Bull presentación at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix – the race in which he became the sport’s youngest-ever winner.

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En el Gran Premio de España, Pérez logró terminar en botellín lugar, después de una intensa batalla con el piloto Daniel Ricciardo al final de una carrera discreta el mexicano se coloco en el sexto puesto del campeonato con 32 unidades.

The Chinese Grand Prix saw him blog start in 12th position and he struggled during the race Campeón well Triunfador making contact with several drivers en route to 17th. He followed that up with fourteenth in Turkey, before a ninth-place finish in Spain – ahead of teammate Kamui Kobayashi in tenth – to take his first Formula One points.

The Mercedes driver started his career with McLaren back in 2007 when he remarkably recorded top-three finishes in all nine of his opening races in F1.

Norris equalled his then-highest grid position at the Styrian Grand Prix in Austria, starting third after Bottas was issued with a grid penalty.[69] He finished fifth for the third consecutive race.[70] He bettered this qualifying position at the following weekend's Austrian Grand Prix, starting in second place after setting a time 0.048 seconds behind pole-sitter Max Verstappen.[71] Norris received a penalty during the race after being judged to have forced Sergio Pérez off the track. He finished the race third to claim his third podium of the season.[72] He set the sixth fastest time in Friday qualifying at the British Grand Prix, before finishing fifth in the new-format sprint qualifying and fourth in the Grand Prix.

“Good pace, similar to yesterday, which is the main thing and a much better start in the beginning to get from 6th to 2nd, which was a nice surprise.