At the last Formula One Stupendous Prix, Norbert was at the center of attention nearly as much as Sebastian – waving and passing out Shirts for Seb’s enclosure track run, and moving on board the F1 truck for a rave with Seb fans on Saturday night.
What’s more, we should not fail to remember this profound farewell… Who’s cutting onions in here?
There wasn’t actually any other person in conflict for this honor, was there? Having had a fantasy start to the season with an agreeable success in Bahrain, an energetic drive to second place in Saudi Arabia, and unadulterated strength in Australia, it appeared to be unfathomable by then to figure Leclerc would just come out on top in another race through the rest of the time.
Yet, that is the truth, with Leclerc’s title goals self-destructing quickly through no shortcoming of his own. Leclerc demonstrated magnificent all through the greater part of the year, with agreeable race leads in a real sense disintegrating with motor disappointments in Barcelona and Azerbaijan.
Added to that was the principal indications of a more fragile Ferrari system group, as the group were off-base footed out of a first column lock-out in Monaco to complete second and fourth.
An especially grievous outcome for Leclerc as he tried to oust discuss his Monaco ‘revile’ (particularly in the wake of crashing an ex-Niki Lauda Ferrari on the roads simply the week beforehand!).
The remainder of the time was business as usual: strange and odd techniques (who can fail to remember Ferrari sending him out on wet tires at a dry Interlagos, or the hard tire bring in Hungary?) In addition to Ferrari losing a considerable amount of speed in the last part of the year, as well as some driver blunders, like in Paul Ricard and Imola.
Leclerc basically discovered no godsends during 2022, and, surprisingly, appeared to be battling against his own group every so often, with Binotto’s hesitance to drive Carlos Sainz into a supporting job maybe being the mark of the end for his own vocation in control at the Gestione Sportiva.
With Vasseur in control for 2023, the one who gave Leclerc the gesture at Sauber for his F1 debut, might his fortunes at any point change next season?
WTF snapshot of the year: Kevin Magnussen’s lady post
Envision time-traveling back to pre-season testing in Barcelona and uncovering to the Haas crew that, besides the fact that Kevin Magnussen be getting back to would F1 to take Nikita Mazepin’s situate, however he could convey the group’s lady post position via season end?
It sounds totally impossible, yet that is precisely the way in which occasions worked out, with Magnussen placing in a traveling first flying lap in Q3 to accept the position ‘on merit’ as the meeting was red-hailed.