Charles Leclerc will look back on 2022 as a massively missed opportunity, with the Ferrari driver having staggeringly lost 143 points this season, which would’ve seen him leading the championship with two races remaining. In fairness to the 24-year-old, Ferrari’s incompetence and philosophy for the F1-75 hasn’t helped his title bid this season, which was essentially
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The excitement for next November’s Las Vegas Grand Prix is certainly building, with Formula 1 and Liberty Media pulling out all the stops to get fans and the drivers as excited for the event as possible. Interestingly, the Grand Prix, in what is regarded as the ‘entertainment capital of the world’ is being promoted by the sport
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Sebastian Vettel broke Formula 1 fans’ hearts earlier in the season, when the German announced that he will be retiring from the sport and the end of the 2022 season to focus on other interests, calling time on his illustrious career. The Aston Martin driver won four consecutive world championships with Red Bull before moving
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Max Verstappen will probably have enjoyed not having Lewis Hamilton for company at the front of the grid this season, with Mercedes really struggling to tackle the regulation changes in the first half of the season. Last year’s battle between the pair was electric, boiling over on multiple occasions, and only being decided on the
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Red Bull have always been an opinion dividing influence in the sporting world, with the energy drink company being accused of buying their success rather than earning it, due to their lack of history. In the footballing world RB Leipzig and RB Salzburg are often shown an unwanted bias by the media and it appears
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Red Bull have had a scintillating season, recovering from their early reliability issues and not looking back as they made their way to both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships. The main problem for teams early on in the season was porpoising, a violent sort of bouncing that is caused by the aerodynamic design of the
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The 2022 Formula 1 season is almost at an end, with just two races remaining of the campaign. Perhaps it’s unfair to compare 2022 to previous seasons; given that 2021 was as dramatic and controversial as it was, however, this year hasn’t exactly been the best. With 20 races completed and just Brazil and Abu
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Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso have had a few flash points this season, with the Spanish driver claiming over the team radio that Hamilton only knows how to drive fast from the front of the grid, after the pair collided in Spa. Alonso had another recent outburst about his old teammate, discrediting the Brit’s seven
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Valtteri Bottas formed a formidable partnership at Mercedes with Lewis Hamilton, helping the team significantly in their period of dominance in his five year spell with the team. The Finn won ten races with the Silver Arrows but never quite managed to put together a title challenge that could rival his teammate, before moving to
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The dust appears to finally be settling on the ‘Cashgate’ scandal, with Red Bull having revealed that there are “lessons to be learnt” from the damaging saga. Following much speculation at the Singapore Grand Prix, it was then confirmed by the FIA after the Japanese Grand Prix that the Austrians had exceeded the 2021 budget
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