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Guanyu Zhou
F1’s sole rookie of the 2022 discipline has had a much more spectacular marketing campaign than his outcomes counsel. Zhou scored factors on his F1 debut in Bahrain with a superb drive to tenth however needed to wait till one other eight races to attain his subsequent factors with P8 in Canada.
F1’s first-ever Chinese language driver would have extra factors if he had not been hampered by Alfa Romeo’s unreliability and mechanical issues. Zhou’s rookie season additionally took a success when he suffered a terrifying barrel-roll crash at Silverstone. His performances warrant greater than 5 factors and seventeenth within the championship.
Esteban Ocon
Being Fernando Alonso’s teammate has confirmed to be a poisoned chalice for some drivers (simply ask Stoffel Vandoorne), however Esteban Ocon has been unfazed by the two-time world champion’s presence at Alpine. The Frenchman carried out admirably towards Alonso throughout their first season collectively in 2021 and has maintained his sturdy type into 2022.
Granted, Alonso has suffered his fair proportion of unhealthy luck and reliability points, however Ocon’s consistency – he has solely completed exterior of the factors in two of the 12 races he has accomplished – has been key to him occupying eighth place within the championship, in addition to serving to Alpine sit 4 factors away from midfield rivals McLaren within the constructors’.
Lando Norris
One other driver who deserves large credit score this season is Lando Norris. The 22-year-old has as soon as once more spearheaded McLaren’s cost in 2022 and convincingly outperformed his extra skilled teammate Daniel Ricciardo within the course of.
Norris’ excellent performances have been mirrored in his outcomes, with the Briton scoring 76 of McLaren’s 95 factors this yr and taking the staff’s greatest results of the season by ending third on the rostrum at Imola. His type has already been rewarded with a brand new long-term contract that sees him locked in at McLaren till the tip of 2025.
Lewis Hamilton
Amid Mercedes’ well-documented struggles and a massively tough begin to the season, there may be now mild on the finish of the tunnel for the staff and Lewis Hamilton.
By his personal admission, the seven-time world champion made a gradual begin to 2022, with Hamilton struggling a string of defeats to new teammate George Russell whereas he performed nearly all of Mercedes’ experiments to assist the staff perceive their troublesome automobile.
For the reason that experimenting has stopped, Hamilton has been in elegant type, securing 5 successive podium finishes, together with a pair of second locations. That first win for Mercedes this season feels ever nearer based mostly on Hamilton’s current shows.
Others who’ve impressed…
Honourable mentions additionally should go to Valtteri Bottas, who has starred at Alfa Romeo, the returning Kevin Magnussen, Russell and Sergio Perez, who has been a lot nearer to Crimson Bull teammate Max Verstappen and appeared in real title rivalry till retirements in Canada (reliability) and Austria (collision) severely dented his hopes.