Concluded the 2022 season, the first in which the new regulations of Formula 1there is a lot of interest in discovering what gray areas the teams have discovered throughout the season and how they will exploit them in the next one.
There is no doubt that Red Bullchampion of the last two drivers’ world championships, will be the rival to beat, but we must not forget Ferrari Y Mercedes.
The ‘Scuderia’ has gone from more to less throughout the year, going from achieving victories in the first races to seeing the runner-up in charles leclerc in danger in the last appointments of the calendar.
Those of Brackley, for their part, have had a positive trend and even George Russell has managed to take a victory ahead of Lewis Hamilton.
Analyzing the prospects for next season, Leclerc launches a warning about Mercedes… and, for the moment, rule out a fourth team in the equation.
“I think Mercedes will be in the fight. Another team? I haven’t seen any signs yet to suggest another team will be in the top 3but Mercedes will be with a very strong car next year”, he explains in statements collected by ‘DAZN’.
“We saw how much they improved from the first race to the last and I think they understood what they were doing wrong. That is usually a sign that things are going to get better, so next year it will be a three team fight“, he pointed out.
“I’m confident because we worked a lot on the simulator. We’ve worked very hard over the past year to understand where are the weaknesses of this car to improve for next year”, he added.
“I think, after the 2021 season, in which we worked very well and repositioned ourselves from the difficult 2020 season, we are working in the right direction and in the right way. That gives me the confidence that we are here to have a competitive car in 2023.“, has settled.