The 2022 season has come to an end with the GP of Abu Dhabi. After the weekend of the first times in Brazil, in Abu Dhabi the usual reigns supreme Max Verstappen, who took his 15th win of the season. Below are the most curious statistics of the weekend in the Emirates.
Red Bull: Verstappen dominates
1. With 15 wins in a season, Verstappen he equaled the sum of wins by Senna and Prost at McLaren in 1988.
2. Perez's third place, in the race and in the world championship, means that the Red Bull, despite 6 drivers' championships and 5 constructors' titles, has yet to end a season with one league double.
3. It was already understood that Yas Marina was not the most exciting circuit on the calendar, but Verstappen's weekend confirmed it. for theeighth consecutive year, poleman of Saturday has then won the race on Sunday.
4. He may have missed the goal of second place, but with his own 11th podium season Perez equaled the sum of podium finishes he scored from 2015 to 2021.
5. Verstappen never seems to be satisfied with records: for the first time in his career, he won for three years in a row in the same circuit.
Abu Dhabi Ferrari: sometimes they come back
1. By finishing the year in second place, Leclerc became the fourth Ferrari driver to become runner-up since Raikkonen won the title in 2007 (Massa in 2008, Alonso in 2010, 2012 and 2013 and Vettel in the 2017-2018 duo).
2. With fourth place in the race and Hamilton's retirement, Sainz managed to overtake the Briton and close fifth in the league. Same result as 2021, but with a very different car and context.
3. Unfortunately for Ferrari and the Ferraristi, 2022 is the sixth consecutive year in which the winner of the inaugural Grand Prix finishes second in the championship.
Mercedes: a step back
1. The first withdrawal due to mechanical problems of the season for Mercedes did climb Hamilton in sixth position in the drivers' championship: the worst result of his career in F1.
2. For the seven-time world champion, 2022 is also the first season without at least one pole and one win.
3. With yet another P5 of the season, Russell gets to share 19 races closed top 5 out of 22 since he has been in Mercedes.
4. With 240 points, Hamilton becomes the second driver with more points without a win in one season. Bottas remains the leader of this particular classification with 247 points in 2018.
Aston Martin: Vettel salutes Abu Dhabi as he arrived
In his 299th and last F1 appearance, Vettel finished in the position he finished in his first race: P10.
Haas: deja vu Schumacher
In both seasons that saw him on the F1 grid, Mick Schumacher finished the year tied on points with another driver: 0 like teammate Mazepin in 2021, 12 like Tsunoda in 2022. Coincidentally, Nikita and Yuki are also the other two pilots who debuted with him at the beginning of 2021.
