The Hamilton trend Bottas must halt in 2020
Spa and Monza usually signal the end of Formula 1's summer break and the start of a period Lewis Hamilton has made his own. Although the season is continuing at a canter in 2020, Hamilton's title rival must find a way to reverse this trend
As we head into the final weekend of August, in any other year preparations would be under way for the traditional end-of-summer festivities. Londoners would have the Notting Hill Carnival, English cricket supporters would be getting ready for the last summer tests and Formula 1 fans would be looking forward to the Belgian and Italian grands prix.
Well, despite all that has been upturned and rerouted by the accursed COVID-19 pandemic, the last two events are going ahead on their scheduled dates. But there will inevitably be differences in 2020.
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Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.
A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.
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