Find out who gets the highest marks and who gets the lowest marks by rating all 20 drivers for their seasons in 2022;In his first season at Mercedes, Max Verstappen won the drivers’ championship, while George Russell defeated Lewis Hamilton.
The end of Nicholas Latifi’s career in Formula One, despite his success.
over the course of three seasons.The former Formula 2 star’s inability to adapt to the new cars in 2022 may have been his most disappointing year.
Even though he got a nice F1 send-off in Japan with some points, it became commonplace to see Latifi lagging far behind the field in the back.Prior to that, he was in the standings behind Nico Hulkenberg and Nyck de Vries, who were substitutes…
Daniel Ricciardo went into 2022 with a lot of optimism, hoping that a brand-new car would help him regain his confidence, which he had so badly lost the year before.He returns to his former team as a third driver after his contract is terminated early in 2022.
Ricciardo’s unexpected decline has been difficult to watch, and he somehow managed to have a worse 2022 than he did in 2021.The Australian simply never tracked down certainty, or structure this year, with just seven focuses scoring completes contrasted with his colleague’s 18, and a loathsome passing record for sure.With that in mind, McLaren really had no choice but to look elsewhere.
With his lowest point total since leaving Williams four years ago and a worrying streak of being outqualified by his teammate in each of his six Formula One seasons, Lance Stroll had another disappointing year.
Stroll waited until round 17 in Singapore to finish higher than 10th in a race, which was certainly not helped by an underperforming Aston Martin vehicle. With only two retirements, his final score of 18 points is not particularly impressive.Against Fernando Alonso, the season ahead will be difficult.
Zhou Guanyu’s rookie season was by no means his worst, but the fact that he was beaten by a teammate and scored points in only three races.
Zhou’s eighth-place finish in Canada was his best result and drive, and you can tell that he needs a lot more of those to convince Alfa Romeo, which will soon become Audi, that he is a long-term candidate.
Mick Schumacher scored his first Formula 1 points in 2022 at Silverstone, which sparked a streak of back-to-back top-10 finishes.Sadly, those were his only races where he scored points, and 2022 brought with it the significant disadvantage of losing his F1 seat.
His F1 career has been plagued by a lack of pace, and this season also saw the German driver crash several times that cost him money.In the end, the latter probably cost him more than the former.
With top-10 finishes in half of the first six rounds of 2022, Yuki Tsunoda’s start suggested he might be ready for F1.
After that, though, he had trouble, and the only reason he got a third season at AlphaTauri is that his defeats to Pierre Gasly weren’t quite as big as they had been before.Not only has he signed a new contract, but he will also lead the team for the foreseeable future with the addition of experienced rookie Nyck de Vries.
Pierre Gasly’s performance at Red Bull’s junior team had been strong for two years, but he dropped significantly in 2022.
That was largely due to the fact that AlphaTauri’s lead driver dropped from 15 top-10 finishes to just six as their car dropped from arguably being the fourth fastest to the ninth.Gasly beat teammate Yuki Tsunoda comfortably despite still leading the team, and now is the time for him to join Red Bull.
At Alpine, the all-French pairing between him and Esteban Ocon will be interesting to watch.