Max Verstappen and the Red Bull team are happy about the next victory.
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Ferrari has the fastest car and one of the best drivers in Charles Leclerc. But if both the team and the pilot make so many mistakes, there will be no stopping the champion on his way to the world title.
Et is 15 years since a Ferrari driver won the Formula 1 World Championship. Finland’s Kimi Raikkonen won the Scuderia title in 2007. Since? Ferrari drivers were second in the championship six times, the first losers from the point of view of the industry. Felipe Massa once, Sebastian Vettel twice, Fernando Alonso even three times.
Prominent society will not comfort Charles Leclerc if he feels like the aforementioned and the Monegasque has only one thing left at the end of the 2022 season: to congratulate Max Verstappen on defending his title. That things turn out differently, that Leclerc still makes the long-suffering Ferraristi happy with the world championship, so that the bells ring at home in Maranello? Magari, as the Italians like to exclaim, when the desired state seems unattainable like winning the lottery – that would be nice! But with too many driver and team mistakes, it won’t work like this.
