The battle for the title will be between the champion, Max Verstappen, and the candidates Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, with Carlos Sainz slightly behind… and the unknown of Fernando Alonso
After a few months of rest and a lot of preparation, both technical and physical, the Formula 1 drivers and teams are ready to start the 2023 season, which should confirm the success of the technical regulations that ushered in a new era . last year. Max Verstappen and Red Bull clashed against the pressure of a Ferrari spiraling into its own chaos, and a Mercedes whose late reaction was too much. The variables that can be opened up this year are many, but there will undoubtedly be at least five points of interest, with their first and last names, that could turn the tables.
Let no one be fooled: Fernando Alonso is not a favourite, not even a contender, to win the World Cup this year. They’ve said it themselves and they’re not trying to sell smoke beyond their means. However, the unexpected switch to Aston Martin has raised many eyebrows in the paddock: why did the most experienced driver in Formula 1 history move to a team that was at the bottom of the table? What did the Spaniard see in the project and the team in the pilot to take such a risk? Will victory number 33 come or will ‘the Mission’ become another spicy drink to swallow?
Lewis Hamilton had gotten used to being the leader, the favorite and the champion. After the longest and most powerful reign in recent Formula 1 history, Max Verstappen dethroned him. Mercedes gave him a car that was by no means superior, but rather a failure in terms of fighting for wins, to the point that Hamilton finished a season without wins for the first time in his career. After two years without kissing a title, the best driver in history is quantitatively hungry. Will he win his eighth World Cup to surpass Michael Schumacher?
The cannibal Verstappen made it clear in 2022 that what happened in 2021 was no mirage, nor much less unfair. The Red Bull driver has become the rival to beat, willing to smash the records his great rival Hamilton holds and will hold for at least another ten years. He is unwilling for anything or anyone, let alone his partner Sergio Pérez, to cast the slightest shadow on him. Anything that doesn’t see him at the top from the start of the year will come as a surprise.
When you see how 2022 started, the word “failure” resonates even more if you can describe your achievements from last year. Ferrari took three steps forward from the previous one, but they didn’t know how to manage their technical favoritism, mainly because of managerial mistakes that left Mattia Binotto at the head of the Scuderia and other men, like Iñaki Rueda who are no longer will be at the helm.front of track strategy. On paper, the Monegask will be the first driver of the new Ferrari to be led by his former boss Frédéric Vasseur.
Carlos Sainz had gotten used to being the leader of his teams, but he didn’t know or couldn’t adapt to Ferrari’s maelstrom at the top of the grid. Leclerc smugly beat him and there were times when he was most reminiscent of second-rate drivers in Scuderia history, such as Barrichello or the worst Massa, despite the fact that his first long-awaited victory came in 2022. He has to defend himself and it is precisely this desire for revenge that can give him that ‘extra’ to become a candidate for much more.
Source: La Verdad
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