2019 FIA title winners crowned at Carrousel du Louvre

The undoubted highlight of the evening used to be the presentation for Lewis Hamilton, who took the enduring trophy for his sixth Formulation 1 World title. This puts him ravishing one crown horrified of Michael Schumacher’s story of seven world championships. The 2019 season used to be a expose of supremacy by the British driver, who equalled his 2018 achievement of 11 immense prix victories. Furthermore, Hamilton accrued a story tally of 413 parts in a season, something that has by no system been achieved sooner than.

The six-time champion said, “It’s been the most straightforward One year I’ve ever had in my occupation. I’m the truth is comfortable with what we’ve achieved as a body of workers. To approach assist into a sixth One year, to maintain fought for a global title at the front and sustained the performance we maintain collectively I deem has been amazing. And on the motive force front, I’m without a doubt very comfortable with my performance this One year. There’s been many of enormous races, the outdated few years maintain been intense with Ferrari, but having one other body of workers up there within the loop has made it extra great for all us.”

Hamilton’s contribution allowed the Mercedes body of workers to true its sixth consecutive Producer’s Title, one other feat that has by no system sooner than been achieved.

The winners of the more than a few categories, bar Formulation 1, maintain been awarded with neatly-behaved original-for-2019 trophies, designed by notorious American painter, sculptor and printmaker Frank Stella.

In rallying, Ott Tänak and his co-driver Martin Järveoja maintain attach Estonia on the plot, ending French domination within the sport’s high class – the FIA World Rally Championship – that had lasted since 2003.

Tänak said: “In the event you’ve been concentrating on something love this for a prolonged, prolonged time, after which you in actuality bag it, you’re feeling the truth is one of those assist. In the origin, it used to be a dream, and for the last couple of years we’ve been terminate, but for plenty of reasons, we’ve no longer managed to be the winners. Now that we’ve finally completed it, it feels love I’ve misplaced a weight from my shoulders. It’s no longer been the highest walk, I’ve been slightly actually thru the water and fireplace, but to bag the title finally these battles, it tastes even larger.” On the producers’ aspect, Hyundai Motorsport finally clinched the crown, having completed second within the two outdated seasons.

In what used to be the FIA World Endurance Championship’s first Expedient Season held all over two calendar years, 2018 – 2019, Toyota obtained each and each the Driver and Team competitions. Endurance racing rookie Fernando Alonso teamed up with sports automobiles stalwarts Sébastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima to exhaust 5 out of eight races, including no longer one but two editions of the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans.

“I make a choice into consideration every lap of this championship, which used to be curious because it lasted one One year and a half!” said Alonso. “In 2018 I used to be combining two World Championships – F1 and Endurance – which used to be very intense, but I loved the skills. Every World Championship is irregular, and it’s optimistic to sit down right here as World Champion once more. My first Prize Giving used to be in 1996 after I came with an FIA Karting World Championship, and now 23 years later, I’m sitting right here with the FIA World Endurance Championship. It’s been a prolonged occupation but, as prolonged as you indulge in what you perform and likewise you can very successfully be performing at your easiest level, it doesn’t subject which class you can very successfully be right here for. The spirit and ambiance you bag in persistence racing is slightly special – the friendship you can merely maintain along with your body of workers-mates in each and each automobiles – all this is irregular and likewise you can’t compare with the experiences I had sooner than.”

The series’ LM GTE class moreover equipped followers with a wealth of pleasure throughout the Expedient Season, stemming from a wholesome grid replete with dozens of entries. Winners of the LM GTE drivers’ championship maintain been Kévin Estre and Michael Christensen of Porsche, who claimed their crown with victories at Le Mans and in Fuji.

Unusual body of workers and driver entrants, and the increasingly aggressive discipline, made for a miles from an effortless shuffle within the 2018/19 ABB FIA Formulation E season. That didn’t cease Jean-Eric Vergne from taking three traipse victories, excellent the championship and becoming the main assist-to-assist title-winner within the history of the championship. In conjunction with teammate André Lotterer, Vergne helped the DS Techeetah outfit to clinch their maiden victory within the Teams’ Championship in a colossal-killing vogue.

“I’m the truth is pleased to maintain completed it once more,” said the Frenchman. “It wasn’t an effortless season, but right here we’re – I’d dispute, in a approach this championship used to be more difficult than the main, as a consequence of I deem there maintain been four races in a row where I didn’t rating any parts, without a-one around me believing that I would maybe per chance perform it, and I even misplaced perception in myself. But that’s the truth is what I’ve learned from this season is to by no system lose hope and to search out the energy within you to flip issues around. Now that Formulation E will change into an FIA World Championship from season seven, I will must return assist to the prize giving then so I’d be a World Champion!”

In what has been the closest season within the World Rallycross Championship’s history, the drivers’ title fight came all of the map in which down to a consuming finale after which Sweden’s Timmy Hansen used to be crowned World Champion.

“I had the excellent ending to a perfect searching season,” said Hansen. “The feeling of excellent the title is totally slightly plenty of to what I’d dreamed of – I used to be extremely alive to about my very personal job but taking a glimpse at it now it used to be a loopy finale to the season and likewise you couldn’t maintain written it larger if it used to be a movie! I’m the truth is comfortable with the high parts of my season, but I’m moreover the truth is motivated to work on the parts where I can give a retract to. I the truth is feel the truth is blessed to maintain achieved this as a family – it’s as foremost as the title to me.”

The excellent drivers, co-drivers and teams from the FIA Rally Championships maintain been moreover awarded for his or her optimistic achievements in one of the hardest and most varied stipulations on tarmac, gravel or within the desert dunes all over your whole continents.

Unusual to the family this One year used to be the FIA Motorsport Games, an interdisciplinary match with a nationwide point of curiosity in which drivers characterize their countries, combating for medals that make a contribution to total medal standings determining the excellent National Wearing Authority. On this event, it used to be Russia, with a gold medal within the Touring Car Cup obtained by Klim Gavrilov, two bronzes within the Karting Slalom Cup obtained by Olesya Vashchuk and Vladislav Bushuev, and the Drifting Cup obtained by Ilia Federov.

Particular particular person medals maintain been moreover awarded at the match, with Hiroshi Hamaguchi and Ukyo Sasahara excellent within the GT Cup, Andrea Rosso excellent the Formulation 4 Cup, and Nina Pothof and Bastiaan van Loenen taking high honours within the Karting Slalom Cup. Dmitry Illyuk used to be awarded the Drifting Cup gold. In the end, Cody Nikola Latkovski obtained gold within the Digital Cup.

The FIA’s stars of the future maintain been moreover honoured in Paris, with champions from all around the motor sport spectrum amassing their trophies. 

Nyck de Vries used to be crowned FIA Formulation 2 champion following a dominant campaign and takes his success into Formulation E for the next racing season. In the original-glimpse FIA Formulation 3 Championship, Robert Shwartzman adopted within the footsteps of his worn and future teammate, Mick Schumacher, and emerged victorious. FIA Karting World Champions Marijn Kremers, Lorenzo Travisanutto, and Thomas Ten Brinke maintain been moreover awarded their trophies.

A resolution of special FIA awards maintain been moreover handed out. First, the FIA Special Award used to be given to Violetta Bulc for her dedication to her characteristic of European Commissioner for Transport, and her ongoing work to give a retract to street security and mobility for all users.

The Rookie of the Year prize, voted for by participants of the FIA Drivers’ Price, used to be obtained by F1 driver Alexander Albon, who started the season with Scuderia Toro Rosso sooner than impressing on his promotion to Crimson Bull Racing. The British-born Thai completed eighth within the drivers’ standings in his debut season, following a ambitious performance at nearly every traipse.

The Personality of the Year award, voted for by completely licensed media from the FIA’s predominant championship, used to be awarded posthumously to Niki Lauda, the three-time F1 world champion and govt director of the Mercedes F1 body of workers.

The Action of the Year prize, voted for by followers of motor sport thru the FIA’s on-line channels, used to be introduced to F1 begin up Max Verstappen, who used to be honoured for his spectacular warfare with Charles Leclerc throughout the British Expedient Prix at Silverstone. The pair raced wheel to wheel, with Leclerc edging Verstappen broad sooner than the Dutch racer came assist at him and overtook on the following nook.

The last applause of the One year used to be, unnecessary to claim, fittingly reserved for F1 Champion Hamilton, and with the curtain introduced down on one other sensational season, preparations are already successfully underway for what’s going to absolutely be one other enormous One year for motor sport in 2020.