2020 Formula One Season

The 2020 Formula One Season is the 71st season of the Formula One Championship.

Race tracks
The Singapore and Azerbaijan Grand Prix were removed from the calendar, while the Bahrain Grand Prix returned after a one year break. Another return to the calendar was the Austrian Grand Prix which was last seen in 2014.

Engine suppliers
Chevrolet enter Formula 1 in 2020 supplying engines to Haas who spent the last 2 years using Ferrari engines.

Jaguar switched from rebranded Renault engines to their own engine in 2020.

Red Bull switched from rebranded Renault engines to Honda engines in 2020 becoming the 3rd team to be supplied by them on the grid.

Drivers
Lewis Hamilton, who finished just 1 point down on world champion Max Verstappen in the last season, decided to retire. His place at McLaren takes Daniel Ricciardo, who parted ways with Ferrari after 3 seasons.

The seat at Ferrari next to Vettel, who starts his 6th season together with the team, will take the former Red Bull driver Antonio Giovinazzi, while his place will take the finnish rookie and Red Bull junior Niko Kari.

After 7 seasons at Williams, Valtteri Bottas, which spent his whole career up until now with the british privateer, will switch to Renault and joins former Force India driver Esteban Ocon there.

Lando Norris will start his Formula One Career at Williams this season.

The rebranded Monster-Rehab FI Racing keeps Mick Schumacher, son of the 7 times world champion, as one of their driver, while Sophia Flörsch, the first female F1 driver since Giovanna Amati in 1992, will take the other seat at the team.

Nico Hülkenberg will take the free place at Haas, which parted ways with Sergey Sirotkin.

Teams
At the end of the 2019 season, Mercedes bought Force India and made it to its junior team, while rebranding it to Monster-Rehab FI Racing.