Mercedes, the world champion of the F1 world championship in six years, has set its sights on imposing early control on the 2020 season, when drivers run into the Austrian Styria Grand Prix at the weekend, in light of a strong struggle with the Red Bull team. The race will be held on the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, which is the second in a row on the same track after last Sunday, and is called "the Great Styria Prize", the Austrian region where the circuit is located. The race will be the second stage of the 2020 championship, which was delayed for months and adjusted due to the emerging Corona virus.
But Mercedes, whose car in black in this season was a supporter of anti-racism, instead of the silver color that the German team has been known in the past decades, seemed determined from the beginning to impose his dominance on the championship, and to win its title for the seventh time in succession for teams and drivers.
Finn Valtieri Botas won the first stage of the championship after starting from the first place, and crossed the finish line against his fellow world champion six times Lewis Hamilton, before the latter was returned to fourth in the final ranking, because of adding five seconds to his timing as a punishment for his friction with Thai Red Bull driver Alexander Albun, as the latter tries to bypass him on the outside of a turn.