1997 F1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve has indicated that Red Bull might now have an unassailable lead in the championship after 13 rounds. Ferrari have appeared to have the fundamentally quicker car than Red Bull for parts of the 2022 season, taking eight pole positions between Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz. They have been overturned in four of those races by the Austrian side, who have claimed nine wins, eight of them through Max Verstappen, while Sergio Perez won in Monaco. It gives Verstappen an 80-point lead in the Drivers’ Standings, while his Red Bull team have established a 97-point gap in the teams’ battle. Such has been the excellent standard of wheel-to-wheel racing so...
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