has entered the offseason of F1. Although news of the complicated driver changes in the 2023 season are flying all over the place, given that the season's schedule is just half over, the performance of drivers and teams this season has also come to a half-summary. F1 official website recently convened five people, including Hall of Fame reporter David Terrymene and famous reporter Mark Hughes, for discussion.
For the top three drivers who have performed best so far this season, Verstappen is undoubtedly the first choice of these five. As the half-time champion, Verstappen has already led the drivers' standings Leclerc with a full 80 points. This advantage is enough to allow Verstappen to be the first place even if he misses three games in the second half of the season. The performance of winning 8 sub-stations in 13 competitions, especially in Hungary, who started with the 10th place and won the championship. If Verstappen, who performed nearly perfectly, can defend the annual driver's championship this season, it will be a championship without any doubt. After
, they expressed their opinions and voted for Russell and Norris. Although this year's McLaren performed a little, Norris still used his speed to ruthlessly crush his teammate Ricardo on the track. Norris scored 76 points in the first half of the points, which is the teammate in the paddock with the largest gap in points except Verstappen and Perez . At the same time, we need to mention that Norris is the only non- Red Bull , Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz driver to hit the podium in F1 this season (everyone hasn't forgotten the scene of Imora "whipping" Leclerc while waiting for the award after the game).
As for Mercedes-Benz Russell has completely entered his role. He looks like a seamless connection with the team. Except for the UK standing in the collision with Guanyu in , the other 12 races were completed in the past five times, and he also won the first pole position in his F1 career in Hungary. What is more perfect than this? There is only one highest evaluation of him: stability.
When it comes to stability, we have to mention the most unstable Ferrari in the paddock, but even so, the five commentators still voted for Leclerc. Although Leclerc himself made mistakes, compared to the team's bad things, "Leak"'s performance has not been questioned too much. Moreover, this season is its best season since entering the F1 arena, and his superb skills in qualifying are higher than anyone else. It is also their reason for choosing Leclerc.
However, given that Ferrari's strong performance this year has ended in such a state of incredibleness, both the stability of racing and the team strategy are "fainting". , but the arrogant Italians are still obsessed with it. This makes the F1 official website use "DEFIANT" to describe Ferrari leader Binotto. In a report, they wrote, "The provocative Binotto insists that Ferrari has no reason to change its practices in the second half of 2022."
From the strength of the Bahrain station to the "yellow, white and red" that has been recorded in history, Ferrari in the paddock seems to have missed every correct strategy choice, and replaced it with the strategy with the most traffic. Just this offseason, some netizens created a "Joker Ranking" for the first half of the season, and Ferrari undoubtedly ranked first. But even so, the arrogant Binotto said in an interview that he still believes Ferrari is on the right path and does not need to change anything.
"Nothing can be changed, I think it's always a matter of confidence, learning, building, accumulating experience, developing skills," after the Hungarian Grand Prix, when asked what the team might need to do to take advantage of their strengths, he said it was the pace of the race, "but if I look at the balance of the first half of the season, we have no reason to change.I think we just need to focus on the reasons (the lack of speed in Hungary) first, solve it and return in a stronger way to continue to be competitive."
We just need to summarize the previous problem and solve it, and we can return strongly. In this case, before coming to Hungary, fans had already heard it once, and Binotto came to Henglongin with confidence and thought about bringing it back one or two times, but it turned out to be again. Become the "clown" in the paddock. You should know that in the only nine games left in the second half of the season, Ferrari can't make any major strategic mistakes if he wants to catch up with the 97-point gap of Red Bull. Otherwise, not only will the team's points be caught by Mercedes behind him, but the annual driver's standings may also be brought back by Red Bull one or two. And Binotto can still say this at this time, no wonder the official website of F1 can't help it...
Of course, for Chinese car fans, the most It is still Zhou Guanyu who has paid attention to it. In the comparison of teammate data in the first half schedule given by the official F1 website, although Zhou Guanyu only got 10% of the team's total points, the lack of racing stability is also the most direct feeling of the authors and fans of the official website. Being able to recover from a serious accident in the UK station and participate in the competition immediately is regarded by experts as the most memorable return to the 2022 season. Whether in terms of technology or will, Zhou Guanyu has the ability to continue to gallop on the F1 field.
In the decision to the highly anticipated 2023 season driver lineup, whether Zhou Guanyu can continue to occupy a seat is of great concern to the outside world. Recently, Zhou Guanyu revealed in an interview that although there has not been a renewal negotiation with Alfa Romeo team, he is confident that he can get a driver's seat next year.
"I don't think I need to worry about my position next year. After all, I'm stable now, and overall I'm not too worried about getting a driver's seat next year, because if I can continue to be in the same shape as I'm better than the next, there's no reason not to stay. "
Zhou Guanyu's average finishing position so far this season 12.13
Indeed, whether it is the first point obtained by Bahrain Station, the P8 finish of the Canadian Station and the multiple entry into Q3 in the first half of the season, all this proves that Zhou Guanyu has good adaptability. Perhaps in addition to the start, Zhou Guanyu's performance in the competition deserves more points. Even though there are still many uncertainties about the contract renewal in the coming year, we still believe that the performance presented by "China Week" will definitely continue to be worthy of an F1 driver seat!
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