Conclusions from the F1 2022 season: Max Verstappen unstoppable, Ferrari’s failure and more.
With 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.
Monday 28th November 2022 6:00 AM
Oliver Harden

Max Verstappen and Red Bull were very worthy winners of the World Championship, with the team taking both the Drivers’ and Constructors’ titles for the first time in nine years. So what did we all learn from F1 2022? Here are our biggest takeaways from the year…

Welcome to the Max Verstappen era. The most terrifying thing about Verstappen’s 2022? This may be just the beginning. With Verstappen and Red Bull well placed to potentially paint an era orange, one of F1’s greatest-ever seasons in 2021 looks increasingly like a bridge between one generation of dominance and the next. But, we will continue to live in hope.

‘Conclusions’;

https://www.planetf1.com/features/co...raris-failure/


Charles Leclerc singles out his most painful moment of the F1 2022 season.
Charles Leclerc has revealed the loss of a victory at his home race at Monaco was the hardest pill for him to swallow in the 2022 season.
Saturday 26th November 2022 12:00 PM
Henry Valantine

The Ferrari driver had been leading in soaking wet conditions around the Principality in May, but while some drivers went straight from full wet tyres to slicks and others had pitted before him, Leclerc’s stop for intermediates was followed by an extra stop just three laps later for dry tyres.

This dropped the Monégasque driver from the lead down to fourth on the road at his home race, eventually finishing off the podium in an extremely disappointing afternoon which saw him lose a probable home win.

He vented his anger at the move after the race, saying over team radio: “No words. The season is long, but we cannot do that.”

‘No words’;

https://www.planetf1.com/news/charle...1-2022-moment/


Norris dissatisfied with solitary podium finish: “One isn’t enough”
2022 F1 season
Posted on 25th November 2022, 8:1424th November 2022, 22:10
Written by Ida Wood and Claire Cottingham

McLaren’s Lando Norris says scoring a single podium in 2022 “isn’t enough” for himself or the team. Despite taking home his second highest points haul from a season in his Formula 1 career, and his second highest championship position, by finishing seventh, Norris could not match his achievements of the last two years, including four podiums and a second place in a McLaren team win in 2021.

Norris only finished in the top five in three grands prix out of 22 but took third place at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Asked if being the only driver outside of Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes to score a podium meant anything to him, Norris said “a little bit”.

“A podium always means something,” Norris said. “It means something to me, it means something to the team, but one isn’t enough. One is like ‘we got lucky’ – you want to feel like you deserve to be there every time. We deserve to be there for sure, [but] we weren’t quick enough to be there. We were kind of way ahead of where we deserved to be.”

“One isn’t enough”;

https://www.racefans.net/2022/11/25/...e-isnt-enough/


Mercedes explain their ‘table of doom’ which predicted worst tracks for W13
2022 F1 season
Posted on 24th November 2022, 7:1525th November 2022, 9:10
Written by Keith Collantine and Claire Cottingham

Mercedes referred to its internal metrics which predicted which circuits would be best and worst for its problematic W13 as the “table of doom”. The team began the 2022 Formula 1 season well off the pace of eventual champions Red Bull and their early rivals Ferrari. Although the team gradually made progress with the W13, even by the end of the season it found the car worked considerably better at some tracks than others.

This was highlighted over the final two rounds. Mercedes won at Interlagos but one week later at Yas Marina were only the third-quickest team. Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff revealed on Saturday the team’s “table of doom” had foreseen that swing in performance.

“We always knew that we need to be prudent and not set our expectations based on the Brazil result,” he told media including RaceFans. “I think that circuit perfectly suited our car and everything ran very, very smoothly. And Abu Dhabi in our ‘table of doom’ was one of the worst tracks.” The team’s chief strategist James Vowles explained the thinking which went into the “table of doom.”

‘W13 as the “table of doom” ’;

https://www.racefans.net/2022/11/24/...-worst-tracks/


How many victory chances did Hamilton have in his first winless F1 season?
2022 F1 season
Posted on 23rd November 2022, 13:0623rd November 2022, 14:05
Written by Keith Collantine

Last weekend Lewis Hamilton ended a Formula 1 season without winning a race for the first time in his career. At the opening race in Bahrain, Hamilton’s Mercedes lost over a second per lap to the race-leading Ferrari and Red Bull. It was clear the W13 wasn’t going to win races any time soon.

But by the mid-point of the season the team were starting to lead grands prix, and on a weekend where the track and conditions suited them, and the stars aligned in their favour, victories finally started to seem possible. So how many chances to win a race did Hamilton have before the end of the season? And how many of those might he realistically have converted?

‘How many victory chances?’;

https://www.racefans.net/2022/11/23/...ess-f1-season/


2023 Formula 1 Preview & Review.
25/11/2022, 07:20
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