Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen receives the 2022 trophy at the FIA annual award ceremony and is officially crowned as a two-time F1 world champion. He said his record-breaking season was “better” than 2021.
Max Verstappen won the F1 World Champion trophy for the second year in a row in Bologna on Friday night, December 9, almost three weeks after his 15th win of the year. Before Verstappen’s feat with Red Bull Racing, no driver had won more than 13 times in a single season.
The 25-year-old Max Verstappe, who won his first ever F1 world championship after a dramatic and controversial 2021 season, admitted that he had more fun this year.
“Emotions are very different, but I think it should be anyway. You have one specific goal in your life and for me it’s to become world champion in Formula 1. Whenever you achieve that goal in the first place, it’s always an emotion. But it was very different this year, I think we were more competitive this year and enjoyed the performance of the team as a whole more.”
“We won drivers and constructors, we won a lot as a team, so I would say it was better and more rewarding this time, but it’s always more emotional in the beginning. It’s a target.”
“This year has been really, really fun. Last year was my first time fighting for the title and it was the first time I had that kind of experience. As a driver you learn every year and you get more experience and what you can do better. And when you have to fight for the title, basically every race you have to score as many points as possible.”
“So, of course, it was very hard for me to be DNF at the beginning of the season, but from that point on, I knew that I was not allowed to make mistakes on my part in case I retired for whatever reason. So every weekend I try to be as clean as possible, to be as perfect as possible, and that’s what I demand of myself every time I jump in the car.”
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen’s teammate Sergio Perez also attended the annual end-of-season ceremony after finishing second and third respectively.
This is the first time Lewis Hamilton has not finished in the top three since his maiden season with Mercedes in 2013, but he did not attend last year’s FIA awards ceremony following a controversial 2021 title fight. rice field.
But there was no dispute about Max Verstappen’s victory this year.
After a difficult start to the season with two retirements in the first three rounds, Max overhauled and overhauled early leader Charles Leclerc before the summer break, winning nine of the final 11 races of the season. Won championships and F1 records in style.
“Maybe after Bahrain[season opener]… well, maybe not!” Verstappen humorously said in response to thinking he could win the title.
“When we took the car out on the track in winter testing, it turned out to be a competitive car, but it was a little overweight.”
“But after a tough weekend in Australia, it was an incredible weekend to get back to Imola. I also knew that I had to produce the results of
“But since then the car has been continuously developed in the right way and slowly the car has been getting slimmer, which has been good. We’ve had a lot of great weekends as a team.
“Spa[Belgian Grand Prix]is an outstanding race because of that weekend. We put the car on the track and everything worked perfectly. I was miles ahead.”
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