There may be six more grands prix over the next two months, but it’s almost a foregone conclusion that Max Verstappen will win the 2022 Formula 1 world championship.
Verstappen can clinch his second title in Singapore next week. When he does, he will join the growing number of top single-seater championship who’ve already been crowned this year.
Stoffel Vandoorne won the Formula E title in August. IndyCar already has a champion too, Will Power claiming his second title earlier this month, while Linus Lundqvist took the Lights crown.
On the F1 support bill there’s not much to fight for either, as the Formula 3 season concluded at Monza with Alpine junior Victor Martins being crowned, and new Aston Martin junior Felipe Drugovich also wrapped up his Formula 2 title early that weekend.
W Series returns to action next month at the Singapore Grand Prix. But it has a Verstappen-like scenario of its own, where it looks unlikely anyone will stop Jamie Chadwick from winning the title for the third season in a row.
Even in Super Formula, Japan’s top-level open-wheel series, there is an unusual level of domination that means Tomoki Nojiri could become a two-times champion with a race to spare.
So where in the world can you find a proper title fight right now if you’re a single-seater fan?
The good news is while Super Formula may have become somewhat predictable, its F3-level feeder series SF Lights has shed its reputation of single-driver domination. The title fight between Toyota-backed Kazuto Kotaka and Honda junior Kakunoshin Ohta to be settled at Okayama this weekend.
Kotaka has seven race wins to Ohta’s two, but the less experienced Ohta has won more poles. He’s 13 points behind, with 35 to play for in the season finale.
Japanese Formula 4 also has a hotly-contested fight at the front between Honda juniors Yusuke Mitsui and Syun Koide, and Toyota junior Rin Arakawa who just about remains in contention with two rounds to go. They could continue their rivalry in SF Lights next year, or Honda could decide to send its top two drivers over to Europe as it did with Red Bull juniors Yuki Tsunoda and Ayumu Iwasa.
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