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2015 Season

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers took part in the 2015 MyDriver Formula One World Championship.

Entrant	Constructor	Tyre	No.	Race drivers	Rounds
Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari	P	5 7	Sebastian Vettel Kimi Räikkönen	All All
Sahara Force India F1 Team	Force India-Mercedes	P	11 27	Sergio Pérez Nico Hülkenberg	All All
Lotus F1 Team	Lotus-Mercedes	P	8 13	Romain Grosjean Pastor Maldonado	All All
Manor Marussia F1 Team	Marussia-Ferrari	P	28 98	Will Stevens Roberto Merhi	All All
McLaren Honda	McLaren-Honda	P	14 22	Aarava Jenson Button	All All
Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	Mercedes	P	6 44	Nico Rosberg Lewis Hamilton	All All
Infiniti Red Bull Racing	Red Bull-Renault	P	3 26	Daniel Ricciardo Daniil Kvyat	All All
Sauber F1 Team	Sauber-Ferrari	P	9 12	Marcus Ericsson Felipe Nasr	All All
Scuderia Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso-Renault	P	33 55	Max Verstappen Carlos Sainz Jr.	All All
Williams Martini Racing	Williams-Mercedes	P	19 77	Felipe Massa Valtteri Bottas	All All

Team changes

Several team changes took place before the season began. Both McLaren and Lotus changed engine suppliers for the 2015 season. McLaren ended their 20-year partnership with Mercedes-Benz, in favour of a return to Honda, who had previously supplied them from 1988 until 1992. Honda had been absent for seven years: they had provided British American Racing and Jordan Grand Prix with engines until they purchased the former in 2006 and then had competed as a constructor until 2008.

Lotus ended their association with Renault in favour of a deal with Mercedes. This ended a 20-year involvement of Renault with the Enstone-based team, (which operated as Benetton from 1992 until 2001, as Renault from 2002 until 2011 and as Lotus from 2012 until 2015) after being an engine supplier to Benetton since 1995, and being the owner of the team from 2002 to 2010.

Both Caterham F1 and Marussia went into administration towards the end of the 2014 season. The latter was saved narrowly from liquidation in February 2015, re-entering as Manor Marussia, when new investment was secured and the team left administration after an agreement with creditors was reached. Caterham ultimately folded and its assets were auctioned off by company administrators after the start of the season.

Driver changes

The driver line-ups saw a couple of changes prior to the 2015 season and one more prior to the Singapore Grand Prix. Reigning GP2 Champion Aarava replaced Kevin Magnussen at McLaren. Sebastian Vettel left Red Bull Racing at the end of the 2014 season after five years with the team and nine years with its wider junior development programme to join Ferrari in place of Alonso. Daniil Kvyat was promoted to Red Bull from Toro Rosso to fill the vacated seat.

Toro Rosso changed their entire line-up: along with Kvyat joining Red Bull, the team chose not to renew Jean-Éric Vergne's contract. Vergne went on to compete in the Formula E Championship while also becoming a Ferrari development driver. They were replaced by the 2014 Formula Renault 3.5 Series champion Carlos Sainz Jr. and the 2014 European Formula Three third-place finisher Max Verstappen. The latter became the youngest driver to make a Formula One début, at the age of 17 years, 164 days when he started the season.

Esteban Gutiérrez and Adrian Sutil were released from Sauber, where they were replaced by the former Caterham driver Marcus Ericsson and the GP2 driver Felipe Nasr.

Manor Marussia also had two new drivers: They employed the former Caterham driver Will Stevens to drive for his first full season in the sport, while another former Caterham test driver, Roberto Merhi, was signed to a short-term deal while he also drove in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series. Max Chilton relinquished his seat, joining the Indy Lights championship, while Jules Bianchi was in a coma at the start of the season and ultimately died from injuries sustained at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix. Alexander Rossi was later drafted in by Manor Marussia to make his Formula One début at the Singapore Grand Prix, replacing Merhi. The Spaniard returned to the team for the Russian and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix, sharing the car with Rossi for the remainder of the season.

Kamui Kobayashi went on to race in the Super Formula series in Japan after the folding of Caterham left him without a drive in Formula One.

Results

Grands Prix

Round	Grand Prix	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning constructor
1	Bahrain Grand Prix	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari
2	United States Grand Prix	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian Vettel	Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda
3	Brazilian Grand Prix
4	Russian Grand Prix
5	Canadian Grand Prix
6	Mexican Grand Prix
7	Monaco Grand Prix
8	Hungarian Grand Prix
9	British Grand Prix
10	Italian Grand Prix
11	Belgian Grand Prix
12	Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
13	Australian Grand Prix
14	Japanese Grand Prix

World Drivers' Championship standings

Points were awarded to the top ten classified finishers in every race, using the following structure:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

In the event of a tie, a count-back system was used as a tie-breaker, with a driver's best result used to decide the standings.

Pos. Driver BHR USA BRA RUS CAN MEX MON HUN GBR ITA BEL ABU AUS JPN Points 1 Aarava 2 2 36 2 Jenson Button 7 1 31 3 Sebastian Vettel 1 8 29 4 Kimi Räikkönen 5 3 25 5 Nico Rosberg 3 7 21 6 Daniil Kvyat 6 4 20 7 Daniel Ricciardo 4 12 12 8 Lewis Hamilton 18 5 10 9 Sergio Pérez 14 6 8 10 Valtteri Bottas 8 9 6 11 Felipe Massa 9 10 3 12 Nico Hülkenberg 10 11 1 13 Romain Grosjean 11 13 0 14 Carlos Sainz Jr. 12 16 0 15 Max Verstappen 13 14 0 16 Marcus Ericsson 15 18 0 17 Pastor Maldonado Ret 15 0 18 Felipe Nasr 16 17 0 19 Will Stevens 17 19 0 20 Roberto Merhi Ret 20 0 Pos. Driver BHR USA BRA RUS CAN MEX MON HUN GBR ITA BEL ABU AUS JPN Points

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Withdrawn (WD) Did not enter (cell empty) Text formatting Meaning Bold Pole position Italics Fastest lap Bold – Pole position Italics – Fastest lap

Notes:

• † – The driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they completed more than 90% of the race distance.

World Constructors' Championship standings

Pos. Constructor No. BHR USA BRA RUS CAN MEX MON HUN GBR ITA BEL ABU AUS JPN Points 1 McLaren-Honda 14 2 2 67 22 7 1 2 Ferrari 5 1 8 54 7 5 3 3 Red Bull-Renault 3 4 12 32 26 6 4 4 Mercedes 6 3 7 31 44 18 5 5 Force India-Mercedes 11 14 6 9 27 10 11 6 Williams-Mercedes 19 9 10 9 77 8 9 7 Lotus-Mercedes 8 11 13 0 13 Ret 15 8 Toro Rosso-Renault 33 13 14 0 55 12 16 9 Sauber-Ferrari 9 15 17 0 12 16 18 10 Marussia-Ferrari 28 17 19 0 98 Ret 20 Pos. Constructor No. BHR USA BRA RUS CAN MEX MON HUN GBR ITA BEL ABU AUS JPN Points

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Withdrawn (WD) Did not enter (cell empty) Text formatting Meaning Bold Pole position Italics Fastest lap Bold – Pole position Italics – Fastest lap

Notes:

• † – Drivers did not finish the Grand Prix, but were classified as they completed more than 90% of the race distance.