Max Verstappen has taken the lead of the drivers’ championship after the Spanish Grand Prix.
F1 drivers championship after the 2022 Spanish Grand Prix
| Position | Driver | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | 110 |
| 2 | Charles Leclerc | 104 |
| 3 | Sergio Perez | 85 |
| 4 | George Russell | 74 |
| 5 | Carlos Sainz Jnr | 65 |
| 6 | Lewis Hamilton | 46 |
| 7 | Lando Norris | 39 |
| 8 | Valtteri Bottas | 38 |
| 9 | Esteban Ocon | 30 |
| 10 | Kevin Magnussen | 15 |
| 11 | Daniel Ricciardo | 11 |
| 12 | Yuki Tsunoda | 11 |
| 13 | Pierre Gasly | 6 |
| 14 | Sebastian Vettel | 4 |
| 15 | Fernando Alonso | 4 |
| 16 | Alexander Albon | 3 |
| 17 | Lance Stroll | 2 |
| 18 | Zhou Guanyu | 1 |
| 19 | Mick Schumacher | 0 |
| 20 | Nico Hulkenberg | 0 |
| 21 | Nicholas Latifi | 0 |
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F1 constructors championship after the 2022 Spanish Grand Prix
| Position | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Bull | 195 |
| 2 | Ferrari | 169 |
| 3 | Mercedes | 120 |
| 4 | McLaren | 50 |
| 5 | Alfa Romeo | 39 |
| 6 | Alpine | 34 |
| 7 | AlphaTauri | 17 |
| 8 | Haas | 15 |
| 9 | Aston Martin | 6 |
| 10 | Williams | 3 |
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2022 Spanish Grand Prix
- Q&A: Kubica ‘shocked’ by ‘completely different’ Alfa Romeo in Spain
- How heat and traffic trouble left F1 fans fuming after the Spanish Grand Prix
- Mercedes not yet certain their porpoising problem has “disappeared”
- Sticking to budget cap “pretty much impossible” due to rising costs – McLaren
- Ricciardo hoping to find an explanation for Spanish GP pace deficit to Norris
Kribana (@krichelle)
22nd May 2022, 15:54
Looking at this.. why did they instruct Perez to give the place to Verstappen? Perez is actually in contention.
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
22nd May 2022, 15:58
@krichelle I don’t think he was in contention for the race win with Verstappen in free air and much fresher tyres. They’d have battled knowing Max would eventually get ahead, so why risk it?
It’s not how I want races to end, but I understand the team for doing it.
Maho Pacheco
22nd May 2022, 16:10
I think what looks unfair is that when Perez asked to pass to overtake Russell, they didn’t allow him to do that
Mike (@suwperman)
22nd May 2022, 15:55
Cant believe Ferrari have lost a 40+ points advantage over the course of 3 races. Cant win championships like that.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
23rd May 2022, 2:24
Yes, sainz is just not at the same level, I believe leclerc, even with red bull’s recovery during the race, had good chances of winning, so sainz’s mistakes\bad performances + mechanical issue for the quickest driver explain that, even though leclerc still got better reliability than verstappen for now.
BLS (@brightlampshade)
22nd May 2022, 16:00
Yeah Ferrari are really starting to do a Ferrari here.
Really throwing it given how Max has had those DNFs and the Mercedes has up until this race been based on a pogo stick.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
23rd May 2022, 2:25
Yes, however you could see mercedes wasn’t at the same level as ferrari or red bull this race either, it’s just sainz that manages to be beaten\overtaken.
Ajaxn
22nd May 2022, 16:00
Well that was a proper test of the Mercedes Slim pod Cooling.
But Why why why did Mercedes start Hamilton on the harder compound tires. It might have paid off, but it was also the reason he got tagged by that driver starting on the faster compound.
I don’t think this was the track to split the strategies. Mercedes needed to treat this as a even test between the drivers.
David BR (@david-br)
22nd May 2022, 16:12
Now a more realistic picture of where the teams and drivers are. Ferrari were possibly too relaxed about their early season points buffer, now vanished. All to fight for still, but now complicated by this turning into a three-team fight among the top 6.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
23rd May 2022, 2:26
Well, a 3 team fight is interesting, and rare, think about 2003, doesn’t happen often.
Jere (@jerejj)
22nd May 2022, 16:12
The WDC battle is fully on via Leclerc’s unreliability.
OmarR
22nd May 2022, 16:34
I would say on Sainz’s mistakes. Don’t forget RB cars DNFd 3 times.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
23rd May 2022, 2:27
Yes, not fair to blame leclerc’s reliability when verstappen lost more points through that.
Illusive (@illusive)
22nd May 2022, 16:28
Max has galloped the advantage Charles had within 4 races. Ferrari better start taking this seriously if we want a banger season. I think Mercs are in it as well now. Its a long season.
Jeorge (@jeorge)
22nd May 2022, 18:09
I’m starting to get worried
RedBull’s straight line speed and race pace with the current cars’ aerodynamics have me worried
The one upside is that Monaco is hard to overtake and with the new rear wing we’ll need all the downforce we can get
Sainz needs to chill, he doesn’t need to be focused, he doesn’t need to get back up and fight again, he simply needs to relax, a 1-4 is better than a 1-6,1-7 or 1-DNF
grapmg (@)
22nd May 2022, 20:57
Ferrari or at least Charles had a good race pace today so don’t worry. I think and hope it will be close the whole season between Ferrari and RB. I’m sorry for Sainz but not going to tell him to relax. Probably he is crying his eyes out.