Verstappen could win the Formula 1 championship this weekend — with 5 races left in the season.
For Red Bull's Verstappen to clinch his second consecutive championship this weekend, he would need to leave Singapore with a 138-point lead in the F1 Drivers' Standings over the second-place driver, be it Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, Red Bull's Sergo Perez or Mercedes' George Russell. Verstappen goes into the weekend leading by 116 points over Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, while Perez and Russell are still withing striking distance of second place.
A win for Verstappen on Sunday, and the math starts looking pretty good for him to clinch a championship with a full five races left on the 2022 schedule. "I'm really grateful to have had it like 2008, right down to the last 17 seconds, and obviously last year pretty much the same thing," Hamilton said, alluding to both is loss last year and his 2008 championship."So yeah, let's hope for the future that it's a bit better."Hamilton, even though he's winless in 2022 and a distant sixth in the standings, still has plenty to play for.
As for Verstappen's rivals, it's been hard not to be impressed with his dominant season of 11 wins in the first 16 races,and 21 wins in his last 37 F1 races.F1 Drivers' StandingsThis content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
Mike Pryson covered auto racing for the Jackson Citizen Patriot and MLive Media Group from 1991 until joining Autoweek in 2011.
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