Retro F1 2022: The undisputed champion

The Dutch driver wins his second world title at the end of a record-breaking season which saw him cross the finish line fifteen times as a winner and re-establish Red Bull Racing's control over Formula 1.

Published on 31/12/2022 à 08:00

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Retro F1 2022: The undisputed champion – Max Verstappen

Max Verstappen celebrated his second world title in Abu Dhabi (Photo Florent Gooden / DPPI)

It is a very fine world champion that the 2022 season has given birth to, at the end of an exercise dominated by head and shoulders after a (too) rapid fireworks display of Charles Leclerc and Ferrari at the start of the course. We will pass over the errors of the Monegasque at Imola (Italy) and at Paul-Ricard (Var), and the too many errors of the Team to retain only the accuracy with which Max Verstappen led his campaign. Not a wheel out, not a borderline action, not an inappropriate word – or against his team in Singapore and Interlagos (Brazil) – came to tarnish his relentless conquest of the title. It was also necessary to give it the shine that its first never had due to the megalomaniacal delusions of a race director, Michael Masi, taking himself in Abu Dhabi as the only master after God. Nothing comparable this year in Japan, even if the vagaries of the weather made a scenario that was too well written this time chaotic.

Logic respected

As is often the case when it comes to the Dutchman, nothing went as planned