Ferrari needs to become Charles Leclerc's team, and Lando Norris is close to outgrowing McLaren... F1
Conclusions from the F1 2022 season: Max Verstappen unstoppable, Ferrari’s failure and moreWith 22 races completed, the 2022 season was not quite the longest campaign in Formula 1’s history – but with one driver winning 15 of them, it certainly felt like it at times.
But despite the scarcely believable statistics – with 15 victories Verstappen shattered the record previously shared between Schumacher and Vettel for the most wins in a single season – this year was not always as routine as he and Red Bull ultimately made it appear. Dominance of this nature usually comes at the conclusion of a rules cycle with Schumacher and Vettel’s 13 wins in a season coming at the end of their particular eras in 2004 and 2013 respectively.On that note, a word on those regulation changes…
All was well in the Prancing Horse’s world when Leclerc won in Australia to extend his lead over Verstappen to 46 points after three races. Even Leclerc was not immune to the madness, his roar over the radio after crashing out of the lead in France the defining moment of Ferrari’s year. With the team also caving in during two tight battles with Mercedes in 2017/18, will it require a dominant car for Ferrari to finally win another title and keep that crippling tension below the surface for a full season?
Taking on the most successful driver in F1 history in the same car, in the team he had made his own over the last decade? That was quite another. He ultimately finished 35 points ahead of his team-mate in the Drivers’ standings, though with Mercedes’ porpoising problems taking them out of title contention Hamilton, who spent much of the first half of the season conducting various setup experiments, will argue that matters little.
Were these misjudgements merely a case of the frustrations of his first winless F1 season rising to the surface? Or, with his 38birthday fast approaching, were they the very first small hints of decline? It is at least something to monitor across the opening months of next season. Years later, Shankly’s story inspired a book called Red or Dead – a term that could so easily apply to a latter-day Vettel.
It came as no surprise when, as he became increasingly reflective in his final days in F1, Vettel admitted heIf there was an increased focus on Vettel’s personal qualities during his two years in green, it was partly because there was little left of the driver he once was. Vettel’s reasoning for continuing beyond 2019 was that he still had some “unanswered questions or unfinished business with myself.”If so, maybe life after Ferrari was worth living after all.
In the choice between success or wealth, was nobody there at that time to remind him one invariably follows the other? And so having initially quit Red Bull because he couldn’t stomach the thought of being Verstappen’s number two, he returns ‘home’ to become the team’s third driver next season.And some extras to finish…
A reminder that Haas willingly sacrificed two full seasons to make a strong start under the 2022 regulations, only to scrape to P8 in the Championship by two points from AlphaTauri. Could it be that Haas have simply found their natural level?
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