Formula 1: good month, bad month — September 2022

Good month

Flashback!

Mick Schumacher earned his first points at Silverstone after a battle with Max Verstappen. A Schumacher versus a Verstappen – is it 1994 again?

Teary-eyed

An emotional Sebastian Vettel drove his newly purchased ‘Red 5’ Williams in the presence of Nigel Mansell himself. Must’ve been a nice change for Williams fans to be crying tears of joy instead of despair.

B+

After running more experiments than a GCSE chemistry student, Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes seem to have fixed the W13 and achieve another podium in Austria. Gold stars all round.

Curse-breaker

Carlos Sainz finally rid himself of the unwanted record of race starts without a win in Silverstone. It only took him 150 attempts.

Seventh heaven

Valtteri Bottas is excelling in his Alfa Romeo with two seventh place finishes in a row in Montreal and Silverstone. Who needs a Merc?

Bad month

Italian civil war

With a bizarre British GP strategy dumping Charles Leclerc off the podium, rumours spread of team members refusing to watch Sainz’s celebrations. Leclerc and Mattia Binotto were spotted exchanging heated words afterwards.

Downwards spiral

After failing to score points in Canada and Britain, Daniel Ricciardo’s poor form sees no end in sight with the Australian left baffled after having “zero pace” at Silverstone.

Red mist

Yuki Tsunoda has conceded that his frustration got the better of him resulting in his bizarre collision with team-mate Pierre Gasly. Tsunoda subsequently had an ‘interview without coffee’ with Helmut Marko .

fight! fight! fight!

TV silverbacks Gary Lineker and Martin Brundle clashed on Twitter over the climate protestors at Silverstone. Lineker tweeted his support only for Brundle to disagree strongly.

Crowd control

Fans at the Red Bull Ring did themselves no favours with reports of unsavoury and drunken behaviour not to mention overdoing it with the orange flares. Authorities need to crack down.