Charles Leclerc is every inch as talented as Max and Lewis, and Mercedes were right to bring in George Russell... F1
So what have we learned from the first half-season of Formula 1’s brave new world?
After a crazy couple of seasons in which seven teams won a grand prix and only two failed to make the podium, the party is over and the great barrier between F1’s haves and have-nots has been rebuilt.Verstappen’s 2022 campaign has become increasingly reminiscent of Michael Schumacher’s 1995, Sebastian Vettel’s 2011 and Lewis Hamilton’s 2015.
As his contemporaries were still negotiating the junior categories, Max was already racing at the front, winning grands prix and building an impenetrable bank of experience to complement his talent. If the first half of 2022 has provided a glimpse of life after Lewis, last season may come to be viewed as the toughest testIf there is one driver who might just have what it takes to stand in Verstappen’s way in the years to come it is he, Leclerc.
Winning two of the opening three rounds provided emphatic confirmation that Ferrari were back and turned doubters into believers but, like the underdogs scoring an early goal against the overwhelming favourites in the cup final, it also gave them something to lose.
When he was appointed as team boss in January 2019, the only thing you could have guaranteed was that, unless he somehow masterminded a return to Ferrari’s glory days, Binotto would not hold the same position a decade later.
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