After almost a third of the Grand Prix contested, Red-Bull advantage in the race for the title of world champion.
Ferrari had however started its season perfectly with a victory for Charles Leclerc and second place for his teammate Carlos Sainz in Bahrain.
The perfect race to get off to a flying start, before leaving points to the competition here and there… The inconstancy of the Italian team and its two drivers is costly.
Too expensive.
The Grand Prix of Azerbaijan and Canada must be a means of pointing its nose again at the top of the classifications (drivers and constructors).
It will then be a question of not repeating the same errors as the past weeks (see Monaco and the incomprehensible pit stop of Leclerc).
To discover
Formula 1: the calendar for the 2022 season
Formula 1: manufacturers' classification
Formula 1: drivers classification
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Leclerc, a feeling of wasted work
Since the start of the season in Bahrain, Charles Leclerc has the makings of a leader, a future world champion.
Unfortunately for the Monegasque, first bad luck and then poor Ferrari strategy prevented him from shining in the last two Grand Prix.
Such a waste.
Because, except at Imola (exit from the road when he was third), Leclerc has absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.
It was a mechanical problem (engine power) that forced him to retire in Catalonia, and an incomprehensible pit stop at home in Monaco that deprived him of victory.
The season is still far from over, but the points left along the way can hurt.
Charles Leclerc is aware of this.
“We had everything to win and we just threw it in the trash so it hurts.
It's still long.
We have the performance to recover, but we can't afford to race like that
,” said the Ferrari driver after Monaco.
Leclerc has progressed, it shows.
But after having crossed a course, it is necessary to confirm.
And it still lacks this little thing that will make him an indisputable world champion, hero of the tifosi who have been waiting for this since 2007 and the last title of the red team (Kimi Räikkönen, known as “Iceman”, at the time).
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The fight for the constructors' classification
Beyond the work done to get Charles Leclerc on the top step of the podium at the end of the season, Ferrari is also concerned about the constructors' classification.
And in this little game, Red Bull still has an advantage for the moment (1st with 36 points ahead of Ferrari).
The Austrian team was able to score many points with outgoing world champion Max Verstappen, as well as with its wild card, Sergio Perez, who won the Monaco Grand Prix.
Conversely, Ferrari lost stupid points with Leclerc, and suffered from the air pocket of its second driver, the Spaniard Carlos Sainz.
The latter retired twice in a row, in Australia, then a few days later at Imola… In the next two races, no mistakes were allowed for him and Scuderia Ferrari
they don't want to be taken down by Red Bull and caught up by a Mercedes team which is regaining its colours.
The calculation is simple, scoring points this season means placing your first rider in the top 2, and your second in the top 5 at least.
See also:
The complete driver classification
The complete manufacturer ranking
More than ever, Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc must join forces and become one over the next two weekends, to put the prancing horse Ferrari ahead of the two Red Bull bulls.
