F1 Trackside View: November 2022

Somehow, the 2022 F1 season already feels like it’s entering the end game after Max Verstappen’s string of dominance since the summer break. But how is he doing it?

Sparks fly from the 2022 Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton lights things up in practice at Spa. The British driver would not finish the race after sustaining damage during a collision with old rival Fernando Alonso. It would be his first retirement of the season

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Race report

Max paints the town orange, both home and away, in Belgium, Netherlands and Italy

Word on the beat

Vettel slams fly-bys, Elkann blasts Ferrari guys and Drugovich gets F1 drives… finally

Tactical analysis

How Mercedes hardened itself to push Red Bull all the way in Zandvoort

News in brief

Fancy a Mansell NFT? Nope. But applaud the boos, and de Vries’ epic performance

Tech insight

How Red Bull’s RB18 is managing to stay ahead in high- or low-downforce settings

Johnny Herbert

Binotto needs to be given time to fix the issues at Ferrari, but how can he do it?