It is a very, very fond farewell to the 2022 F1 season for some drivers, writes OllieHarden
With Red Bull winning all but five races in 2022 as Max Verstappen claimed his second successive World Championship, there wasn’t much for the other teams and drivers to shout about as the Formula 1 season ended in Abu Dhabi last weekend.
As new team-mate George Russell was praised for his unbroken run of top-five finishes, it was left to Lewis to do most of the donkey work for MercedesWhen the time for science experiments stopped in Canada, Hamilton’s return to form with a streak of podium finishes strongly hinted that he retains a slight underlying pace advantage over Russell, but the frustrations of his worst-ever season showed on track with a series of mistakes in the second half of the year.
How frustrating it must be to keep travelling to the races – continent to continent, nation to nation, circuit to circuit – knowing that shot at true redemption will not come until the following spring at the earliest. For all they achieved together in the past, Alonso’s relationship with Alpine was never quite the same after the teamFrom the moment his move to Aston Martin was announced on the first morning of the summer break, Alonso was simply counting down the days to the beginning of his latest – and almost certainly last – F1 adventure.
Not long after the race Alonso was pictured heading into Aston Martin’s hospitality unit, F1’s agent of chaos ready to shake up his new team.After a stunning breakthrough campaign in 2021, this year served as a reminder to Lando Norris that the life of all but a select few F1 drivers is filled with more moments of defeat than victory.
As the season developed he struggled to disguise his dislike of the MCL36 and began to talk in riddles of the 2022 car. The new parts McLaren brought to Singapore, he said, was not an upgrade but “a different car that performs at a very similar level.”
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