No drivers are set to enter the 2019 Formula 1 season as three-time reigning winners of any of the 21 races that are on this season’s schedule.
Heading into the 2019 Formula 1 season, none of the sport’s 20 drivers are set to enter any of the season’s 21 races as three-time reigning winners of those races despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of the races on the schedule have been on the schedule for the last several seasons.
There are, however, three drivers who are set to enter a number of these 21 races, eight to be exact, as two-time reigning winners of them.
These three drivers are Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport’s Lewis Hamilton, Scuderia Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Aston Martin Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen.
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Hamilton has won both of the last two Spanish Grands Prix, German Grands Prix, Italian Grands Prix, Singapore Grands Prix and Japanese Grands Prix. The German Grand Prix was not held in the 2017 season, so Hamilton earned his most recent two victories in that race in the 2016 and 2018 seasons.
Hamilton also won the 2018 French Grand Prix, which was the first French Grand Prix that was held at Circuit Paul Ricard since the 1990 season and thus the first race at the track for any of the drivers who competed in it.
Meanwhile, Vettel has won both of the last two Australian Grands Prix and Bahrain Grands Prix while Verstappen has won both of the last two Mexican Grands Prix.
But none of the winners of the other 12 races on the 2018 schedule won the races that they won in the 2018 season in the 2017 season as well.
These 12 races are the Chinese Grand Prix, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the Monaco Grand Prix, the Canadian Grand Prix, the Austrian Grand Prix, the British Grand Prix, the Hungarian Grand Prix, the Belgian Grand Prix, the Russian Grand Prix, the United States Grand Prix, the Brazilian Grand Prix and the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Will any of the drivers who are set to enter the 2019 Formula 1 season as two-time reigning winners of any of the 21 race’s on the schedule enter the 2020 season as three-time reigning winners of those races? If so, which drivers will win which races for the third consecutive season this season?