Seven wins in the first nine races, six wins in the last six Grands Prix. The 2022 Formula 1 season is passing from a duopoly to a domination: perhaps not for weekend performances, certainly for race results, and the world rankings testify to this. The 49 points that Max Verstappen has on Charles Leclerc almost represent an iron barrel for the world champion: it means that, even if he always finished second up to Monza, he would have the certainty of at least being on equal points with the Monegasque after the Grand Prix. of Italy.
In short, the hard-fought 2021 World Cup risks being a memory, especially if Ferrari continues to suffer from reliability and continues not to capitalize on the opportunities that arise before it. Toto Wolff, Mercedes team principal, knows it well: “It would be great if Leclerc were leading the World Cup. It would be really good for Formula 1, but at the moment Ferrari did not take advantage of its opportunities and lost some of its edge. It would be better if the world championship went all the way and didn’t decide in Septemberβ, These are the words of the Austrian a Motorsport-Total. Wolff knows Red Bull well, having fought hard last year and knowing the strategic and communication skills of Milton Keynes’ box and team principal Chris Horner. In Miami Mattia Binotto and his Mercedes colleague were ‘pinched’ in a long chat, to the point that various sources spoke of the Ferrari-Mercedes axle on both budget cap (but in this case also Red Bull is in favor of opening the portfolio more) both on the front power unit of 2026, the year in which the Milton Keynes team is ready to embrace Porsche as the new engine supplier, also demanding regulatory advantages in terms of money to invest in engine development and time to devote to dynamic dyno tests. Which certainly did not please Ferrari and Mercedes.
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