2022 Formula 1 Season
22 races · Champion: Max Verstappen
Driver Standings
| Pos | Driver | Team | Pts | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 454 | 15 |
| 2 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 308 | 3 |
| 3 | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull | 305 | 2 |
| 4 | George Russell | Mercedes | 275 | 1 |
| 5 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 246 | 1 |
| 6 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 240 | 0 |
| 7 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 122 | 0 |
| 8 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine F1 Team | 92 | 0 |
| 9 | Fernando Alonso | Alpine F1 Team | 81 | 0 |
| 10 | Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo | 49 | 0 |
| 11 | Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren | 37 | 0 |
| 12 | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin | 37 | 0 |
| 13 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 25 | 0 |
| 14 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri | 23 | 0 |
| 15 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 0 |
| 16 | Mick Schumacher | Haas F1 Team | 12 | 0 |
| 17 | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | 12 | 0 |
| 18 | Guanyu Zhou | Alfa Romeo | 6 | 0 |
| 19 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 4 | 0 |
| 20 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | Nyck de Vries | Williams | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | Nico Hülkenberg | Aston Martin | 0 | 0 |
Constructor Standings
| Pos | Constructor | Pts | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Bull | 759 | 17 |
| 2 | Ferrari | 554 | 4 |
| 3 | Mercedes | 515 | 1 |
| 4 | Alpine F1 Team | 173 | 0 |
| 5 | McLaren | 159 | 0 |
| 6 | Alfa Romeo | 55 | 0 |
| 7 | Aston Martin | 55 | 0 |
| 8 | Haas F1 Team | 37 | 0 |
| 9 | AlphaTauri | 35 | 0 |
| 10 | Williams | 8 | 0 |
Races
The 2022 Season
The 2022 season ushered in the most significant technical reset in a generation, with new ground-effect regulations designed to allow cars to follow each other more closely and improve racing. The sweeping rule changes reshuffled the competitive order, and early on it was Ferrari and Charles Leclerc who appeared best placed to challenge, the Monegasque winning two of the first three races to lead the championship. Red Bull and Max Verstappen, after early reliability troubles, quickly found their stride and turned the season into a procession.
The new cars introduced a phenomenon called porpoising, a violent aerodynamic bouncing at high speed that troubled several teams, most notably Mercedes, whose radical zero-sidepod concept left them off the pace and battling a bruising, uncompetitive car for much of the year. Ferrari's early promise faded under the weight of strategic blunders, reliability failures and driver errors, with painful moments at Monaco, Silverstone and Hungary handing the initiative decisively to Red Bull as their challenge unravelled.
Verstappen was relentless once Red Bull hit form, winning a then-record 15 races in a single season and wrapping up his second consecutive title with rounds to spare. The campaign was overshadowed in its closing stages by the death of Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz, and by lingering questions over the team's breach of the 2021 cost cap, for which they received a financial penalty and reduced wind-tunnel testing time. George Russell took his maiden Grand Prix victory for Mercedes in Brazil amid the team's late-season recovery.
Red Bull comfortably claimed the Constructors' Championship, their first since 2013, ending Mercedes' eight-year reign. The regulation overhaul broadly succeeded in producing closer wheel-to-wheel battles even as one team dominated the front, and it set the technical template for the years to follow. The season confirmed Verstappen and Red Bull as the new benchmark of the sport while leaving Ferrari to rue a campaign of squandered opportunity.