Behind the fight for the Monaco GP win between Ferrari and Red Bull, Alpine’s Fernando Alonso held off Mercedes driver Hamilton for seventh. Hamilton became increasingly impatient at not being able to get past Alonso, whose slow pace meant they finished over half a minute behind sixth place.
Alonso quipped “that’s not my problem” about Hamilton’s annoyance as he explained the reason behind his puzzling late-race pace.
The controversial finish to the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, instigated by race director Michael Masi not following rules by allowing several cars to unlap themselves and setting up a last-lap battle between title rivals Hamilton and Verstappen, drew the ire of Mercedes boss Toto Wolff straight away. It remained a topic of discussion well into 2022 as the FIA revealed the findings of its investigation and made sweeping changes in the hope of preventing a repeat.
While Red Bull team principal Christian Horner was consistent in his defence of Verstappen’s success, he did eventually concede Masi had got it wrong.
At the Canadian Grand Prix, George Russell experienced something new in his F1 career: being booed by spectators.
Russell’s response was saying such behaviour “needs to be stamped out”, and that it was taking “a bit of readjusting” receiving negative attention at grands prix since his move to Mercedes at the start of the year.
Three different F2 drivers picked up bans during the course of 2022 for reaching 12 penalty points on their licences. Two of them were left cursing track limit violations which contributed to their totals.
In the feature race of the season at Bahrain, Olli Caldwell exceeded track limits six times and as a result copped several time penalties, a drive-through penalty and then seven penalty points post-race.
For the same scale of violation at Imola, Amaury Cordeel was handed five penalty points. He managed to accumulate a further seven points by round six, earning him an automatic race ban for the next event.
Later in the season Roy Nissany joined the pair in copping a ban, largely for penalties arising from incidents with other drivers.
Candid quotes caught on camera
Hamilton and Daniel Ricciardo were both caught revealing some interesting details in candidly-caught clips this season.
In the media pen at the Austrian Grand Prix, Hamilton…
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