If at the beginning of the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship season Sebastian Vettel with Ferrari finally seemed to be able to thwart Lewis Hamilton's (Mercedes) power, things soon changed and the British driver managed to maintain quite a edge over Ferrari, making several wins also0 in the second half of the season. Mercedes won the constructors' championship, too, leaving Ferrari and Red Bull behind. Twenty-one Grand Prix were scheduled for the 2018 World Formula 1 Championship, one more than the previous season. For Lewis Hamilton it was the fifth world title, completed by a record number of points and the primacy of pole positions.