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F1 Debates: Were the 2022 regulations a success?
Four of our writers discuss whether or not the new regulations improved the F1 spectacle in 2022.
December 14, 2022
By Andrew Wright
Total Motorsport
Nigel Chiu: Best we could’ve hoped for. F1’s new regulations definitely worked. Just because the championship wasn’t close doesn’t mean they didn’t. Andrew Wright: They weren’t broken – why try fix them? Last season’s duel was always going to be an impossible act to follow, but that aside, I think the new regulations have disappointed more than they have delivered.
Ed Spencer: Too early to judge. When the new regulations were announced in December 2019, Ross Brawn hailed them as a great leveller for the sport where David could slay Goliath on a weekly basis. His prediction hasn’t aged too well as the pecking order in 2022 stayed relatively the same, giving some paddock judges the view that the regulations have failed.
Adam Dickinson: Time will tell. It’s really hard to not sit on the fence on this one. I absolutely think the regulations were a success in allowing the cars to race closer for longer and we had some really good Grands Prix where that was a key factor in the race.
‘Time will tell’;
https://www.total-motorsport.com/f1-...tions-success/
Podcast: Best F1 overtake 2022
December 13th 2022
MOTOR SPORT PODCAST
Williams reserve driver Jack Aitken and F1 commentator Alex Jacques join Chris Medland as they try to decide on the best overtake of the 2022 grand prix season in our review podcast
Hear their expert verdicts on moves that include Lewis Hamilton’s three-wide pass at Silverstone and Sebastian Vettel taking on Kevin Magnussen at the US Grand Prix, then have your say by voting in the Motor Sport Season Review Awards at the bottom of this page before December 22 to have a chance of winning £2,000 Goodwood season tickets.
As well as Hamilton’s and Vettel’s passes, Daniel Ricciardo’s move past two Alpines at the Hungarian Grand Prix, and Charles Leclerc’s perfectly-timed overtake on the brakes at Circuit of the Americas make the shortlist. Scroll down to vote or click to view all of the moments first.
‘Best F1 overtake 2022’;
https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/a...?nowprocket=1#
F1 FANTASY WRAPPED: The 2022 season in numbers – and your global winner interviewed
13 December 2022
Formula One - Official Site
There were more F1 Fantasy players than ever this season and points being racked up over 22 Grands Prix and three Sprints...
And as we look back at the season, what better time to collate the stats from this season of F1 Fantasy, including the biggest scores, most popular drivers and much more.
Plus, scroll down to read an interview with the winner of the F1 Fantasy Global League, Peter Belck-Olsen!
‘2022 season in numbers’;
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...xL0Dl4cPU.html
Top 10 battles of the 2022 Formula 1 season
17:49 Tue, 13 Dec 2022.
Formula One - Official Site
Watch our top 10 battles from 2022, including Vettel and Alonso giving it all to the finish line in Japan and the epic five-car battle in Austria.
‘Top 10 Battles’;
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/v...053156129.html
Top 10 Formula 1 drivers of 2022
Wednesday 14th December, 2022 - 5:00pm
By Mat Coch
Speed Cafe
Following the conclusion of the 2022 season, Speedcafe.com’s Formula 1 Editor, Mat Coch, assesses the 2022 grid and ranks his top 10 for the year.
The 2022 Formula 1 season was somewhat less dramatic that the year which preceded it, but just as enthralling.
It marked an all-new era for the sport with new technical regulations and the introduction of the all-important cost cap.
‘Top 10’;
https://www.speedcafe.com/2022/12/14...ivers-of-2022/
Ranking Formula 1’s ten teams on 2022 season: Red Bull, Ferrari and more compared
Wednesday 14th December 2022 7:00 AM
Oliver Harden
PlanetF1.com
It is a truism of sport that the points table never lies – or does it? The 2022 Formula 1 season was one of those occasions when we may beg to differ.
The official story of 2022 is set in stone with Max Verstappen and Red Bull storming to the World Championship, Ferrari fading after a strong start and Mercedes spending most of the time chasing their tails with an uncooperative car.
But how did F1’s 10 teams really compare across the season? Here’s our alternative ranking based on the performance of each team, whether or not they made the most of their equipment and some of the decisions they made along the way…
‘Points table never lies – or does it?’;
https://www.planetf1.com/features/ra...-bull-ferrari/
2023 Formula 1 Preview & Review.
25/11/2022, 07:20
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Hamilton, Vettel, Alonso: How much damage F1 drivers caused in 2022.
Mick Schumacher‘s topping of the list will come as no surprise to many F1 fans, with his team boss Guenther Steiner even criticising the German’s frequent accidents at the start of the season.
Published: 17 Dec 2022, 10:46
By Matthew Phillips
Give Me Sport10:49
The 2022 Formula One season featured plenty of bangs and crashes throughout, with every single driver suffering a retirement at some point during the season. And so, it begs the question following the season’s conclusion, who racked up the highest bills in terms of repairs and damages?
This very question has been answered by RacingNews365COM on YouTube, who has provided the detailed rankings of drivers’ estimated total repair bills, however, they’re omitting costs for mechanical failures.
So, without any further ado, let’s see who has got their bosses forking out the biggest cheques for repairs at the end of the season.
‘Who racked up the highest bills?’;
https://www.givemesport.com/88095530...caused-in-2022
The much closer F1 team-mate duel that went to waste in 2022
17 Dec 2022, 13:20
By Edd Straw
The Race
Pierre Gasly led the line for AlphaTauri in 2022, but team-mate Yuki Tsunoda closed the gap considerably in his second season in Formula 1 during what proved to be an erratic and trying season for the Red Bull-owned team.
In the races, Gasly was more often the stronger performer – the lead AlphaTauri driver when both finished 10 times compared to Tsunoda six times. But for both, results were hard to come given AlphaTauri’s struggles with the tricky AT03 and the reliability and operational misfortunes that cost it some big results.
AlphaTauri was disappointed with its aerodynamic development rate in 2022, meaning it made less progress on mitigating the generic weaknesses of this new type of F1 car than others – including the weaker front end in slower corners. Gasly often complained about corner-entry understeer that transitioned into oversteer later in the corner, with the struggle to achieve the kind of through-corner balance needed to excel.
‘Duel that went to waste’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/the-m...waste-in-2022/
F1 Laughs at Itself in an Animated Video About the 2022 Season and It's Hilarious
16 Dec 2022, 20:14 UTC
Bogdan Bebeselea
autoevolution
When it comes to the 2022 Formula 1 season, entertainment has come at a premium, at least if we’re talking pure racing. Ferrari looked poised for a championship challenge at the start of the season, only for Red Bull and Max Verstappen to completely dominate the Scuderia.
In an animated video on Formula 1’s YouTube channel, we get to relive some of the best moments of the 2022 season. We can even laugh at Ferrari’s strategy errors that have become a meme throughout this year’s Grand Prix calendar. The short animated video takes a dig at the mistakes made by the Italian team, showing a Ferrari fan with no idea about race strategy being given a contract.
No matter which team each of us supports, we can all get together to enjoy the funny moments that make the sport great. Regardless of how the season went down in the end, humor is something that does not care.
‘F1 Laughs at Itself’;
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/f...us-206543.html
The 2022 F1 Season Animated!
15th December 2022.
FORMULA 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gSXfbAZQLY
F1 boss 'optimistic' at 'unacceptable divide' ending after Red Bull cruise in 2022
F1 supremo Ross Brawn has reiterated his desire to see closer competition within the sport.
14:28, Fri, Dec 16, 2022
By Liam Llewellyn
F1 managing director Ross Brawn has opened up on his optimism at seeing change in what he previously described as an 'uncacceptable divide' in the sport. "I think we need another season," he said regarding the lack of opportunity for teams outside the top three - which includes Ferrari.
"I think, when you have these new regulations, there's teams that get on top of it. In the 2009 season, which was a new set of regulations, two or three teams were on top of the regulations, and the rest struggled – even some of the big teams.”
“So, I think we need another season. I'm not sure what we do if it continues that way because I think we've put a number of initiatives – the cost cap, the cars and tracks we've tried to help with, the format of racing.” He added: "Everything is now tuned towards trying to maintain the integrity of the sport, but bringing it closer together.”
'Optimistic at unacceptable divide ending’;
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-a...-Mercedes-news
Max Verstappen picks out three season lowlights from the F1 2022 campaign
Friday 16th December 2022 9:30 PM
Henry Valantine
It was a season of few lowlights for Max Verstappen, but he pointed to three race weekends which did not go to plan for the now two-time World Champion.
“Monaco, Silverstone… I would go for Singapore. That was just a terrible weekend, everything went wrong,” Verstappen explained on Viaplay’s F1 Talks, quoted on his official website.
“From the set-up of the car on Friday, the issues with running the car, not enough fuel in qualifying and then everything went wrong in the race. Sometimes you just have those weekends. Singapore was a weekend to forget.”
‘Monaco, Silverstone, Singapore’;
https://www.planetf1.com/news/max-ve...022-lowlights/
2023 Formula 1 Preview & Review.
25/11/2022, 07:20
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F1 2022 SEASON REVIEW: A ROLLERCOASTER OF A YEAR FOR MERCEDES.
2022 was a season of mixed feelings and surprise performances for the Silver Arrows
20 Dec 2022, 08:07
Abby Bathurst
FormulaNerds
Car design. At the pre-season testing in Barcelona, porpoising was first mentioned. This then became a prominent problem for Mercedes throughout 2022, particularly at the beginning of the season.
Mercedes’ Retirements. 2022 was initially supposed to hold 23 races. But Russia was taken off the calendar bringing the number down to 22 – still a record-breaking season. Out of all 22 races, Mercedes are the team to have had the least number of retirements.
A race victory, many podiums and a battle for second. Battling for second against Ferrari wasn’t something anybody could have predicted at the beginning of the season. Ferrari started the year off with a strong effort aiming for the championships.
‘ROLLERCOASTER OF A YEAR’;
https://www.formulanerds.com/feature.../?nowprocket=1
GRANDPRIX247.com 2022 F1 Awards Reader Votes.
2022 GRANDPRIX247.com F1 Awards by voting in the survey.
20 December, 2022
NewsDesk
Grand Prix 247
Dear F1 Fans & Readers, please help us with our 2022 GRANDPRIX247.com F1 Awards by voting in the survey below. Your vote counts and will be considered as part of the final revelations which will be published from 29 to 31 December.
In the aftermath of what was a long season, made even ‘longer’ by the fact that the titles were wrapped up by Japan, with races blurred among the 22 rounds, while off-track the news just kept erupting, so please think about your answers wisely so we get a good grasp on what the sentiments of readers, aka F1 fans, are regarding the past season.
Now it’s your turn to tell us what really impressed you, and what didn’t in 2022, F1 related of course. Thanking you in advance for your participation and contribution.
‘F1 Awards Reader Votes’;
https://www.grandprix247.com/2022/12...-reader-votes/
Biggest F1 crashes in 2022
20/12/2022, 11:34
Sky Sports
Relive some of the biggest crashes this year in Formula One, including Nicholas Latifi in Australia, Mick Schumacher in Saudi Arabia and Zhou Guanyu in Britain.
‘Crashes’;
https://www.skysports.com/watch/vide...rashes-in-2022
F1 2022 SEASON REVIEW: HOW OFF-TRACK CHAOS DERAILED ALPINE’S SEASON
Looking into the French team’s season shows just how much they lost as a result of their own errors
20 Dec 2022, 15:05
Katy Roberts
FormulaNerds
Alpine did well to progress on track as the best of the rest, but their season was marred by embarrassing conflict throughout the team.
Whilst the team’s performances were relatively consistent, their year could likely have been more fruitful had their drivers tried to get on with each other.
‘Track Chaos’;
https://www.formulanerds.com/feature.../?nowprocket=1
F1 2022 SEASON REVIEW: FERRARI’S FALL FROM GRACE
Scuderia Ferrari saw a promising year unravel after a dominant start to the season
15:07 Mon, 19 Dec 2022.
James Phillips
FormulaNerds
It all started so well for Ferrari in 2022. Two wins in the first three races, including a dominant win in Australia. By the season’s summer break, Charles Leclerc was nearly 100 points behind Max Verstappen. How did it fall away so fast?
The knee-jerk reactions of the team have been present throughout the season, showing the Scuderia still has a way to go before it can challenge for a world championship. Cohesion and self-belief will get Ferrari out of the quandary it finds itself in, however, this will require the team to operate similarly to Mercedes and Red Bull. Let’s take a look at how the season started, and how it all ended with the departure of its 2022 Team Principal.
‘Promising year unravel’;
https://www.formulanerds.com/feature.../?nowprocket=1
F1 Secret Santa 2022 – what did the drivers gift each other for Christmas?
14:53 Mon, 19 Dec 2022.
Formula One - Official Site
Watch as the 2022 F1 drivers receive gifts from their Secret Santa, but can they correctly guess who picked their presents?
‘Secret Santa!’;
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/v...756133683.html
2023 Formula 1 Preview & Review.
25/11/2022, 07:20
Motorsport Forums
https://www.motorsportforums.com/sho...89#post1314189
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The best 'Value for Money' F1 drivers in the 2022 season.
Formula 1 drivers are paid the big bucks to deliver on track, so which drivers were the best value for money across the 2022 season?
22 December 8:00AM
Author Jake Nichol
Co-author Marnik Kok
RacingNews365
While all the prestige in Formula 1 lies in the Drivers' World Championship, the bills are paid through the Constructors' Championship. Teams entrust drivers nearly 25 times a year to score them the crucial points they need to try and claim an extra position in the Constructors' - which could be worth millions of dollars come the end of the campaign and final tallies are in.
Big money is paid out to ensure the best drivers are in your car, but who were the best 'Value for money' drivers throughout 2022? World Champion Max Verstappen scored the most points ever in a single-season with 454, but thanks to his rather high base salary, others proved slightly more economical.
'Value for Money';
https://racingnews365.com/the-best-v...he-2022-season
What Went Right (and Wrong!) for Every F1 Team in 2022
It wasn't all Champagne and celebrations for Red Bull; while even Haas had a few bright spots.
23:59 Wed, 21 Dec 2022.
By Phillip Horton
AutoWeek
Formula 1’s season is now in the history books and each team will be reflecting on what went right, and what went wrong, ahead of 2023.
Autoweek takes a look at what they may be dissecting.
'History books and each team will be reflecting';
https://www.autoweek.com/racing/form...-team-in-2022/
Gigafactories, mystery materials and the F1 halo: 5 most-read manufacturing stories 2022
11:52 Wed, 21 Dec 2022.
Professional Engineering
Formula One's lifesaving halo presents unique manufacturing challenges.
High-profile incidents in Formula 1 have reminded fans and drivers that motorsport is still dangerous, despite increasing safety measures. In November 2020, French driver Romain Grosjean had a fiery crash that he was lucky to escape. In September 2021, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton collided, and the Dutch driver’s rear wheel skidded across the Briton’s helmet.
If it hadn’t been for the precision engineering, manufacturing and testing of the halo safety device, a wishbone-shaped structure that is fitted to the chassis of open-wheel racing cars, these incidents could have been life-changing – if not fatal.
‘Formula One's lifesaving halo’;
https://www.imeche.org/news/news-art...g-stories-2022
‘It was a very good step forward’ – F1 team bosses reflect on impact of ‘fascinating’ 2022 rule changes
19 December 2022
Formula One - Official Site
Formula 1 team bosses have taken time to assess the major changes to the sport’s regulations for the 2022 season, hailing them as a step in the right direction after an action-packed campaign.
F1 introduced an all-new set of technical regulations this year, including a move to ground effect aerodynamics, revised bodywork and larger tyres, with the aim of generating closer racing and more overtaking opportunities. Reflecting on the changes, and the core goals, Alpine team boss Otmar Szafnauer said: “I think there [were] a couple of objectives, one of which was to bring the field a bit closer together. I think that’s been partially achieved; I think the racing is a little bit closer.”
Haas team boss Guenther Steiner echoed Szafnauer’s comments, saying: “I think the regulations worked. We have to differentiate between financial regulations and technical. I think financial worked. The teams are closer together, all the teams have scored points this year.” Aston Martin F1 Performance Director Tom McCullough also argued that the rule changes have “done what was set out to be achieved”, while noting how exciting they have been to navigate, and reserving special praise for world champions Red Bull.”
‘F1 team bosses reflect’;
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...4DbbAA5lE.html
Podcast: Best F1 race 2022
December 20th 2022
Author Motor Sport
Motor Sport Magazine
The 2022 F1 season delivered plenty of wheel-to-wheel racing in front of sell-out crowds, with unexpected twists and challenges regularly rearing their head. But which of the 22 races stands out above them all as the best grand prix of the year? F1 driver-turned-commentator Jolyon Palmer and fellow commentator Jack Nicholls join Chris Medland to look back at the year’s action and assess the races on our season review awards shortlist.
On this year’s shortlist is the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix that saw a cat-and-mouse duel between Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc; the Spanish Grand Prix where Verstappen spun and had to battle George Russell; the British Grand Prix that brought Carlos Sainz’s maiden win and an epic battle for second; as well as the Hungarian Grand Prix which brought a fight back through the field for Verstappen who started tenth.
Also up for discussion is the best circuit of 2022, with plenty to discuss around the shortlist of Zandvoort, COTA, Suzuka and Interlagos.
‘Best grand prix of the year?’;
https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/a...3&nowprocket=1
2023 Formula 1 Preview & Review.
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22 telling stats on every driver to race in the 2022 F1 season | 2022 F1 season review.
So as 2022 comes to a close, it’s time to look back all 22 drivers and offer a telling stat for each that encapsulates their season during the 73rd running of the Formula 1 world championship.
2022 F1 season review
Posted on 24th December 2022, 7:1523rd December 2022, 20:58
Written by Will Wood
RaceFans
Max Verstappen: Most wins in a season (15), most points ever scored in a single season (454) and first driver in 40 years to match John Watson’s record of multiple victories in a season from tenth or lower on the grid
Sergio Perez: As well as his first pole and taking multiple wins in a season for the first time in his career, Perez managed to score 40% of Red Bull’s total points in 2022 – an increase over 2021, where his share was only 32.45%
Charles Leclerc: Leclerc’s nine pole positions throughout the 2022 season were the most any Ferrari driver has taken since Michael Schumacher secured pole 11 times in 2001. Only Niki Lauda in 1974 took as many poles for Ferrari but failed to win the title
‘22 telling stats on every driver’;
https://www.racefans.net/2022/12/24/...022-f1-season/
Poll: F1 race of the 2022 season.
F1 ushered in a new set of aerodynamic regulations for 2022 with the target simple - create more exciting racing by allowing cars to follow more closely.
Friday 23 December 2022 08:55
Ewan Gale
GPFans09:56 Fri, 23 Dec
Whilst Max Verstappen and Red Bull romped to both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships, the racing spectacle was vastly improved across the majority of venues on the calendar.
GPFans has taken a look at which rank as the best of the season, with a chance at the end to vote for your favourite across this Christmas period.
‘Exciting racing’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/98...e-2022-season/
FIA: No F1 flexi floor cheating in 2022 but trickery was possible.
09:07 Fri, 23 Dec 2022.
Jonathon Noble
Motorsport.com
The middle phase of the 2022 campaign was dominated by the controversy over porpoising, and the impact of a technical directive from the FIA to try to help address the matter. As well as imposing an aerodynamic oscillation metric to limit the bouncing, the FIA also tightened up checks on flexible floors amid suspicions that teams had been using some tricks to run closer to the ground.
These even went as far as suspicions of teams fitting disappearing skid blocks which were manufactured in a way to move up into the car when hitting the ground so they didn’t wear down. This behaviour ensured they passed post-race measurement checks. Reflecting on the season and the porpoising issue, the FIA’s single seater technical director Nikolas Tombazis said he was confident that teams never went as far as deliberately trying to get around the regulations.
However, he says moves to tighten up the floor rules, and change the measurements of the skid blocks, were more aimed at closing up potential loopholes that could be exploited. “Teams clearly always tend to work on the edge of the regulations, and we didn’t think anybody was cheating back then,” he said, when asked by Motorsport.com about how far he reckoned teams had gone amid the skid block suspicions.
‘Trickery was possible’;
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f...ible/10414049/
The worst 10 drivers of the 2022 F1 season
08:50 Fri, 23 Dec 2022.
The Race
Often much debate and online fury are to be had over who the best drivers of any given Formula 1 season were, but deciding who were the 10 weakest drivers can be equally tough.
In the case of the 2022 F1 season, there are plenty of tough decisions to be made when looking at the ‘worst’ 10 drivers of the year.
That’s partly because many of these ‘worst’ drivers had numerous stand-out drives but simply weren’t quite as impressive as the drivers who made our top 10, as you can read here.
‘The Race: ‘worst’ 10 drivers of the year’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/the-b...022-f1-season/
F1 2022 silly-season shenanigans - who ended up where.
Following a hectic driver market ‘silly season’ across the past six months, the F1 grid is full of change ahead of the new year.
Friday 23 December 2022 11:05
Ewan Gale
GPFans
GPFans brings you all the information you need on the new and familiar faces.
Pierre Gasly – AlphaTauri to Alpine
Oscar Piastri – Alpine reserve to McLaren
Fernando Alonso – Alpine to Aston Martin
Nico Hülkenberg – Aston Martin reserve to Haas
Nyck de Vries – Mercedes reserve to AlphaTauri
Logan Sargeant – F2 to Williams
‘Silly season’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/98...nded-up-where/
2023 Formula 1 Preview & Review.
25/11/2022, 07:20
Motorsport Forums
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'He's a dead man': Jackie Stewart admits 2022 F1 crash left him terrified.
Jackie Stewart worried an F1 driver had died after a worrying crash earlier this year.
08:20, Mon, Dec 26, 2022
By Luke Chillingsworth
Daily and Sunday Express
Jackie Stewart has admitted he thought Zhou Guanyu could have been killed in his horror crash at the British Grand Prix. Stewart has revealed he thought Zhou was a “dead man” while watching the race at home with his wife over the summer.
The three-time world champion thought it was not possible Zhou would walk away until he saw him exiting the car. The Scot has also praised F1 safety which he helped improve as director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA) in the 1970s.
Speaking exclusively to Express Sport, Stewart explained: “We have a great sport. There’s run-off areas now. Look at the accident we had at Silverstone last year. I was watching that with Helen, my wife, at home and I said 'he’s a dead man’. He couldn't possibly be alive. And next minute he’s out of the car, walking. So that’s wonderful. In our day the accidents that happened, the fires that took place, nobody could get to the driver and they never stopped the race.”
‘Next minute he’s out of the car, walking’;
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-a...anyu-exclusive
WATCH | When Leclerc, Hamilton, Perez conjured the finest F1 overtakes in 2022
11:12 Sat, 24 Dec 2022.
Charlen Raymond
Wheels24
The Formula 1 British Grand Prix is not always the most exciting race on the Formula 1 calendar, but the 2022 edition was like something from an action movie. It started with a massive crash at the start of the race, followed by a relentless onslaught of action as drivers competed for positions, and to be better than the rest. But it was close to the end that things really heated up.
Following another restart that left Ferrari's Charles Leclerc vulnerable on the Hard tyre, Red Bull's Sergio Perez and Mercedes-AMG's Lewis Hamilton were soon ready to topple the man in red. Running on the Softs, Leclerc was always going to be a sitting duck to the two mentioned drivers who were on the much faster tyre, but what transpired left everyone gasping for breath.
First, Perez moved past Leclerc, but the jostle between the two opened the door for Hamilton to assert himself in that fight. It was brilliant as the trio came within inches of each other, yet managed to keep things clean and not touch wheels. But it was Leclerc, on worn tyres, who impressed most, extracting every ounce of performance from his Ferrari as he attempted to keep within range of his rivals. He eventually lost the battle, but gained massive respect for how he drove.
‘Finest F1 overtakes in 2022’;
https://www.news24.com/sport/motorsp...-2022-20221222
Christmas quiz: Test you and your family’s knowledge of the F1 2022 season
Sunday 25th December 2022 2:00 PM
Editor
PlanetF1.com
Ready to test how much you remember from the F1 2022 season with your family after your Christmas dinner has settled? We’ve got the perfect quiz for you.
We at PlanetF1.com have peeled through the archives from the season just gone and found some of the moments you may or may not remember from the F1 2022 campaign – so the time has come to put your knowledge to the test.
The questions are listed below and the answers are at the bottom of the page, so you will be able to play along with as many people as you like around the table, or slumped into the chair after too much Christmas pudding. In any case, best of luck to you, some of these are harder than others…
‘Christmas quiz’;
https://www.planetf1.com/news/f1-2022-christmas-quiz/
Our highlights of the thrilling 2022 F1 season
25 December 2:00PM
Author RacingNews365 Staff
RacingNews365
The 2022 F1 season gave fans lots of memorable moments, both on and off the track. As the year draws to a close, the RacingNews365.com editorial team have selected their highlights of an action-packed campaign.
Rory Mitchell: The Spanish Grand Prix was hot. An unusual heatwave had appeared over most of Europe early into summer, meaning it hit 35°C on most days. I can remember standing under the grandstand in between the sessions along with everyone else to get shade, and one fan told me they spent the entire race there instead of in their grandstand seat!
I was expecting the normal precession at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona, but we actually got one of the most entertaining races of the year. Both Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz spun off bizarrely at Turn 4, enabling George Russell to take second place.
‘Highlights of the thrilling 2022 F1 season’;
https://racingnews365.com/our-highli...2022-f1-season
F1 penalty points - Who tops Santa's naughty list for 2022?
Sunday 25 December 2022 09:00
Sam Hall
GPFans
Santa has been watching so who made his naughty list this year? Several drivers came close to a ban after flirting with the 12-point mark whilst only three kept their noses clean for the entire campaign. In this respect, Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas and Carlos Sainz have their names etched in gold ink on the nice list.
Penalty points are often handed out alongside time penalties or other sanctions and are designed to punish repeat offenders with the more serious sanction of being forced to sit out a race. Topping the naughty list for 2022 is Pierre Gasly.
The AlphaTauri driver amassed 10 points for causing collisions, exceeding track limits, speeding under red-flag conditions and falling too far behind the safety car.
‘Santa's naughty list’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/98...y-points-2022/
Video: What made the RB18 the best car of F1 2022
16:55 Sat, 24 Dec 2022.
The Race
The Red Bull RB18 was not only the best car of 2022, but one of the most dominant Formula 1 cars in history.
Max Verstappen won the drivers’ title with four races to spare and Red Bull took the constructors’ championship with an advantage of 146 points after winning an astonishing 17 out of 22 races.
But what made the RB18 so good? It was down to multiple factors given there’s no such thing as a magic bullet in modern F1.
‘Best car of F1 2022’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/video...ar-of-f1-2022/
Verstappen voted 2022 Driver of the Year by RaceFans readers
2022 F1 season
Posted on 25th December 2022, 12:0024th December 2022, 16:56
Written by Ida Wood
RaceFans readers have voted Max Verstappen as their top driver of the 2022 Formula 1 season. It is the second year in a row the Red Bull driver has topped our poll.
‘Max Verstappen’;
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Max Verstappen's 2022 F1 dominance set to be challenged in a year full of intrigue.
Red Bull unlikely to have it their own way as their rivals gather for an almighty effort.
07:34 Sun, 25 Dec 2022.
Byron Young
The National
With hindsight it’s easy to see the 2022 F1 world championship was wrapped up in a great big bow and gifted to Max Verstappen long before this festive season entered people’s minds. But his record 15-win demolition of his rivals belies just how close the competition really was until the last days of August.
And there are abundant signs 2023 will be anything but a cakewalk for the sport’s double champions. But this time pacesetters Red Bull take noticeable handicaps into next year. They will be weighed down by an extra 10 per cent loss in wind tunnel and computerised CAD development time dished out in their overspending punishment from the FIA.
For a sport in which laps are measured to thousands of a second, it’s unlikely that kind of hit can simply be engineered out of the equation, even by their resident design genius, Adrian Newey. And then the growing burden of running their own engine-building operation at Milton Keynes is not to be underestimated as staff numbers double.
‘Rivals gather for an almighty effort’;
https://www.thenationalnews.com/spor...l-of-intrigue/
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The biggest stories from the 2022 F1 season.
From fantastic wheel-to-wheel racing on track to political controversy off it, the 2022 Formula 1 season had it all.
Author Jake Nichol
Co-author Rory Mitchell
RacingNews365
It was a thrilling season on track with some major talking points off it, so RacingNews365 has rounded up the major stories from the 2022 Formula 1 season.
It was a virtuoso performance from World Champion Max Verstappen to secure his second crown with 15 wins from 22 races as he rewrote the record books and cemented himself as the new 'Man to Beat' in Grand Prix racing as Red Bull prised the Constructors' Championship away from Mercedes after eight years.
Meanwhile in the paddock, there was wrangling over Red Bull spending too much and breaking the cost cap, receiving a substantial penalty and a lot of furore over a driver, who at the time, had never driven in an official session.
‘Biggest stories’;
https://racingnews365.com/the-main-t...2022-f1-season
REVEALED: The F1 team bosses choose their top 10 drivers of 2022.
Formula 1’s team principals have voted Max Verstappen as their number one driver of the year for the second successive season in our annual poll, following the Red Bull driver’s successful defence of his title.
27 December 2022
F1 Correspondent & Presenter
Lawrence Barretto
Formula One - Official Site
Formula 1’s team principals have voted Max Verstappen as their number one driver of the year for the second successive season in our annual poll, following the Red Bull driver’s successful defence of his title.
We asked all 10 team bosses to submit their list of the top 10 drivers of the year, under the proviso that their individual ranking would remain secret.
Drivers were given scores based on the current F1 points system – 25 for the top driver down to one for 10th. Those scores were then combined to create a ranking.
‘F1 team bosses top 10 drivers’;
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...BZmjwhCBM.html
What we learned from F1 2022
Tuesday 27 December 2022 10:30
Ewan Gale
GPFans
Max Verstappen followed up his maiden F1 title with an instant renewal as Red Bull cantered to a double championship. Verstappen is a generational talent. If there was any doubt as to the talent of the now two-time champion, Verstappen’s display of utter dominance underlined his superstardom this year.
Mercedes isn’t bulletproof. F1’s new regulations saw the Silver Arrows come back down to earth with a bang - and a few bumps!
Ferrari back with the big guns, but face restraint from same old failings. Without looking at the content of the season, you could be forgiven for suggesting Ferrari enjoyed a positive 22-race run.
‘F1 2022 Observations’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/98...arned-f1-2022/
The F1 rankings in which Mercedes beat Red Bull in 2022
27 December 8:00AM
Author Marnik Kok
Co-author Anna Francis
RacingNews365
Numerous engine parts were changed during the 2022 F1 season, leading to various penalties being handed out. But who experienced the highest and lowest number of changes during the campaign?
F1 teams and drivers are allocated a certain number of engine components during a season, with those who exceed this amount being issued with a penalty.
Many penalties were given out during 2022 for those who went above the number of parts listed below:
o Internal Combustion Engine (ICE): 3
o Turbo Charger (TC): 3
o MGU-H: 3
o MGU-K: 3
o Energy Store (ES): 2
o Control Electronics (CE): 2
o Exhaust (EX): 8
‘Check out the full list of engine parts used per driver in 2022 below’;
https://racingnews365.com/the-f1-ran...d-bull-in-2022
Potent Ferrari’s highs made its 2022 F1 lows more painful
Dec 27 2022
By Edd Straw
The Race
Ferrari’s 2022 Formula 1 season was the ultimate curate’s egg. Judged by Saturdays, it was a triumph, but Sundays were often bitterly disappointing. The disparity imbued Maranello with a sense of failure, leading to the resignation of team principal Mattia Binotto.
Yet there were plenty of positives. After two winless years, it bagged four victories and rejoined the lead group. It also produced a distinctive car that was capable, over a single lap at least, of taking the fight to Red Bull, and produced the most potent power unit.
The downsides were that it left multiple potential victories on the table and made too many mistakes. The reliability problems not only cost results, but also had a knock-on effect on performance given it had to run its engine more conservatively after Baku.
‘Potent Ferrari’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/poten...-more-painful/
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Bouncing was ‘breaking our engines’ at start of 2022 – Mercedes.
Mercedes had to overcome engine-related problems this year which were provoked by the serious bouncing problems they encountered with their W13.
2022 F1 season
Posted on 28th December 2022, 18:18
Written by Ida Wood
RaceFans
In a video published by Mercedes, Hywel Thomas, the managing director of its powertrain division, and team principal Toto Wolff discussed the impact of the engines on this year’s form. “At the beginning of the season, the two big things that we had was firstly the power was going to get frozen and it was going to be a hardware freeze,” added Thomas. “And that’s what we were going to be using for the next three years.
“So we had a really big development programme over the whole of last year and through that winter and just trying to make sure we landed that it was a real big effort, a really, really big effort.” But that design had not taken into consideration the severe forces that would be applied due to porpoising – the aggressive bottoming out and bouncing most F1 cars suffered with this year.
“It was becoming very clear that the engines were taking a hell of a pounding,” Thomas explained. “The bottom of the engines. I think when [Wolff] came up to Brixworth last week and saw some of the some of the parts that were off the race engines, it’s quite a surprise to see exactly how hard they were being hit by the ground. And when you see Lewis [Hamilton] and George [Russell] looking a bit uncomfortable getting out of the cars, the PUs were doing much the same.”
‘Breaking our engines’;
https://www.racefans.net/2022/12/28/...2022-mercedes/
How our 2022 F1 predictions stood up
16:56 Thu, 29 Dec 2022.
The Race
Who will be champion? “Half-right or half-wrong?” asked Mark Hughes of his prediction that Verstappen would win the drivers’ title and Mercedes the constructors’. Where will Mercedes finish? Unsurprisingly, the eight-time constructors’ champion’s fall from the summit to third place, as it struggled to get a handle on its capricious W13, was something that caught most people out.
How many races will Russell win? Tied in a considerable way to Mercedes’ expected level of performance, predictions of how many races Russell would win proved, by and large, well wide of the mark. How many teams will win races? For anyone hoping the new rules era would level the competitive playing field, 2022 might have been a disappointment as the top-three teams regularly dominated the top six positions – even when Mercedes found itself adrift of Ferrari and Red Bull.
Who will have the better year – Alonso or Vettel? This was the category in which our writers had most success – even if the question lends itself to some subjective interpretation. Who’ll be the most surprising intra-team duel victor? Considering this was arguably the most open-ended question, it’s perhaps little surprise that there was limited success in our predictions.
‘2022 F1 prediction standings’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/how-o...ions-stood-up/
GrandPrix247 2022 Best Looking Car of the Year: Ferrari F1-75
30 December, 2022
NewsDesk
Grand Prix 247
It’s awards season! The time of year when we at GrandPrix247 look back on the 2022 Formula 1 season and choose who gets one of our awards. Our best-looking car of the year? Ferrari’s F1-75.
The F1-75 started its life as a seriously fast car, arguably the fastest on the grid, that is until Red Bull’s RB18 caught up with it, but on one lap pace, the F1-75 remained the car to beat, giving Ferrari 12 pole positions in 2022, while Red Bull’s RB18 was on pole eight times.
‘Ferrari’s F1-75 twelve pole positions, Red Bull’s RB18 eight pole positions’;
https://www.grandprix247.com/2022/12...ferrari-f1-75/
The best races of the 2022 F1 season
29 December 6:00PM
Author Rory Mitchell
Co-author Anna Francis
RacingNews365
After an action-packed year, RacingNews365.com looks back on some of the most exciting Grands Prix of the 2022 Formula 1 season. With a jam-packed 22-race schedule, the 2022 F1 season was not short of action on the track. Spanish Grand Prix. Even though it was one of many wins to add to Max Verstappen's record-breaking tally in 2022, the Spanish Grand Prix still delivered an intriguing outcome.
British Grand Prix. Carlos Sainz's first win in F1 came in eventful style at Silverstone, with the race having to be restarted following a shocking crash for Zhou Guanyu – who thankfully escaped unharmed – at the first corner. Austrian Grand Prix. On Red Bull's home territory, it was clear that the Ferrari were the superior package in terms of race trim.
Hungarian Grand Prix. Hungary usually produces classics when there are changing conditions, as was evidenced by the shock pole by George Russell on Saturday. Brazilian Grand Prix. There were early signs of the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend being one to remember when Kevin Magnussen secured a surprise pole position in Friday's qualifying.
‘RacingNews365 best races’;
https://racingnews365.com/the-best-r...2022-f1-season
FIA over-reacted to ‘porpoising’ concerns after Baku – Symonds
2022 F1 season
Posted on 29th December 2022, 7:1528th December 2022, 22:46
Written by Keith Collantine
RaceFans
Formula 1’s chief technical officer Pat Symonds believes the sport’s governing body went too far in its bid to reduce ‘porpoising’ after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. “I think they overreacted a bit after Baku,” he told Auto Motor und Sport. “In Baku we saw the worst impact because a team tried something that didn’t work and then went public quite loudly.”
“Had they not intervened, the problem would have been solved. Most teams now understand how to control bouncing.” As the season progressed teams such as Mercedes increasingly mastered their porpoising problems. However it remained a factor at some circuits, including Yas Marina, scene of the season finale.
‘A team tried something that didn’t work and then went public quite loudly’;
https://www.racefans.net/2022/12/29/...-baku-symonds/
GrandPrix247 2022’s F1 Driver Farewells
29 December, 2022
Paul Velasco
Grand Prix 247
Sebastian Vettel: Falling Out Of Love With F1. First and foremost we say farewell to Sebastian Vettel. In his heyday the German was one of the greatest drivers of his generation, winning four F1 World Championships in a row, in a Red Bull team that was built around him, is a testament to that.
Daniel Ricciardo: A Shocking Fall From Grace. The fall from grace by Dan the Man was one of the most unexpected and painful experiences witnessed in F1; the fact that McLaren paid him to end his contract earlier a year earlier than expected was a real slap in the face, exacerbated by the fact that his replacement is ‘no-name-brand’ Oscar Piastri.
Nicholas Latifi: Won’t be missed. Latifi’s career in F1 will be remembered for triggering one of the most unsavory incidents in Formula 1 history, when he spun his car in the dying moments of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, prompting ‘that’ safety car period… Mick Schumacher: Victim of Terrible Management. If ever there was an F1 career that was badly managed, a case study of inevitable failure, it must be Mick Schumacher.
‘F1 Driver Farewells’;
https://www.grandprix247.com/2022/12...s-welcomes-f1/
Records smashed and winning runs wrecked: The 2022 F1 season in stats
2022 F1 season review
Posted on 30th December 2022, 7:5530th December 2022, 9:29
Written by Will Wood
RaceFans
The 73rd season in the Formula 1 world championship was a record-setting one in a variety of ways with new all-time benchmarks set and some long-running sequences coming to an end.
Record breakers. Max Verstappen soared to unparalleled heights in 2022. First timers. The 2022 season saw no fewer than four drivers enjoy their first pole positions of their career. Sequence endings. The end of the 2022 season meant that a series of records ceased with it. Odds and ends. In total, there were 34 drivers who participated in at least one official grand prix session in 2022 – the most since 2014 (36).
‘Smashed and wrecked’;
https://www.racefans.net/2022/12/30/...mula-1-season/
Every F1 driver’s best moment of 2022
Dec 29 2022
By Edd Straw
The Race
Every driver had their share of highs and lows during the 2022 Formula 1 season, albeit with some having more of one than the other.
As the end of the year approaches, The Race has picked out the best moment for each of the 20 F1 regulars this year.
‘The Race: Every F1 driver’s best moment of 2022’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/every...oment-of-2022/
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How well do you remember the 2022 F1 season? It’s the Big Formula 1 Quiz of the Year!
Our staff writers have taken a magnifying glass to the campaign gone by with a whopping 45 questions spanning winter testing to the season finale and everything in between.
20 December 2022
Formula One - Official Site
So get going with the quiz below and see how well you remember the 2022 season – and don’t forget to share your score...
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Revealed: Which drivers gained and lost the most on the first lap in F1 2022?
Saturday 31st December 2022 11:00 AM
Jamie Woodhouse
PlanetF1.com
Looking at how the drivers performed on lap one during F1 2022, it is happy reading for the likes of Esteban Ocon, but tough for Valtteri Bottas.
How a driver gets away off the line obviously can be crucial in determining their position once they cross it again to finish the race, with overtaking improved but still not always simple in 2022, especially when it comes to battling in the midfield with that pesky ‘DRS train’.
Unsurprisingly then, it is here where the first-lap kings can be found, as well as the stragglers.
‘Gained and lost the most on the first lap’;
https://www.planetf1.com/news/f1-202...ost-first-lap/
Every F1 driver’s worst moment of 2022
10:50 Sat, 31 Dec 2022.
By Edd Straw
The Race
During a 22-race Formula 1 season, every driver will have their bad moments. Whether it’s a poor weekend or a terrible misjudgement on-track, even the best in the world will have their regrets.
As a companion to our earlier article selecting every driver’s high point, The Race has picked out the worst moment for each of the 20 F1 regulars this year.
‘Every F1 driver’s worst moment’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/every...oment-of-2022/
F1 2022 - the 10 teams ranked
Saturday 31 December 2022 12:00
Sam Hall
GPFans
Red Bull clinched its first F1 constructors' championship since 2013 but which other teams were standout performers? The end-of-season standings naturally paint a realistic picture of the season and the true performance of a team.
But in F1, car performance, driver performance and, indeed, team performance all make a huge difference. With this in mind, which teams do the GPFans panel believe shone the brightest this past year and which has work to do going into the new season?
‘The 10 teams ranked’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/98...-teams-ranked/
FORMULANERDS’ TOP 10 MOMENTS FROM F1 2022
Which moments really got us out of our seats and screaming at our TVs during the 2022 F1 season?
17:17 Sat, 31 Dec 2022.
Dalila Zanardo
FormulaNerds
The latest F1 season was full of brilliant racing, amazing venues, bold overtakes and more, but what better way to say goodbye to the year than to go back and remember some of our favourite moments from the 2022 season? Here then is a list of wild moves, new winners, and heart-warming moments on track.
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RaceFans’ complete 2022 Formula 1 season review
2022 F1 season review
Posted on 31st December 2022, 16:5231st December 2022, 17:44
Written by Will Wood
RaceFans
As 2022 takes the chequered flag and a new year begins, there’s no better time to look back at the year that was on RaceFans. From the biggest stories of the year to all of RaceFans’ exclusive interviews and our driver rankings list for Formula 1, F2, F3, Formula E and IndyCar, there’s is plenty to look back on as 2022 comes to an end.
‘RaceFans: The biggest stories of 2022’;
https://www.racefans.net/2022/12/31/...season-review/
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5 Biggest Disappointments of the 2022 F1 Season.
The 2022 Formula 1 season, now firmly in the rear-view mirror, often left a bad taste in the mouths of both competitors and fans.
Jan 5, 2023
By Phillip Horton
AutoWeek
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc wasn't the only one left scratching his head after another Formula 1 season often filled with more questions than answers.
Here's five of the season's biggest disappointments that left both those involve and fans scratching their heads looking for answers:
1. Ferrari, Mercedes Offered Little Challenge to Red Bull
2. Big Three Dominance Was Too Much
3. The Fall of Daniel Ricciardo
4. Williams Disappoints ... Once Again
5. Questionable Officiating
‘Biggest Disappointments’;
https://www.autoweek.com/racing/form...022-f1-season/
F1 fans choose their favourite race from 2022 season
12:04 Thu, 05 Jan 2023.
by Fergal Walsh
Motorsport Week
The results of an online poll in which Formula 1 fans voted for their favourite race of the 2022 season have been revealed. It highlighted the British Grand Prix as the best race of the year, which took 34 per cent of the total votes.
The event from Silverstone saw Carlos Sainz take his first pole position on Saturday before he converted his advantage into a maiden victory the following day. The race started in dramatic fashion when Zhou Guanyu was flipped upside down following contact from George Russell.
‘Favourite Race’;
https://www.motorsportweek.com/2023/...m-2022-season/
Free preview: F1 TV's Radio Rewind at the 2022 Monaco Grand Prix
05 Jan 2023
Formula One - Official Site
Watch a short version of F1 TV's awesome Radio Rewind series from the 2022 Monaco Grand Prix. Sign up at F1TV.com to get closer to the F1 action than ever before.
‘Free preview’;
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/v...049685267.html
F1 driver salaries: How much money did each driver earn in 2022?
4 Jan 2023
Lewis Larkam
Crash.Net
Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen are the highest-earning F1 drivers, but how much is the rest of the grid reportedly paid?
‘F1 driver salaries’;
https://www.crash.net/f1/feature/100...f1-driver-earn
Nico Rosberg believes F1 2022 was far from boring despite Max Verstappen dominance
Saturday 7th January 2023 6:30 PM
Sam Cooper
PlanetF1.com
Nico Rosberg believes the 2022 F1 season was far from boring even if it was dominated by just one man, Max Verstappen. “For me, the year of F1 was so awesome. It was such a great season,” Rosberg said in a video on his YouTube channel.
“Even though one guy dominated so much, it didn’t really make it boring. It was just so interesting all the time, so exciting, so many things changing – it was great.”
“I think the rule changes really worked very well, to make overtaking easier – we can confirm that. They’ve done a great job with that, led by Ross Brawn, so thank you Ross and team for the effort on that.”
‘Far from boring’;
https://www.planetf1.com/news/nico-r...ax-verstappen/
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