10 things we’d like to see in the second half of the 2022 F1 season

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This weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix marks the beginning of a frantic nine-race run to the finish of the Formula 1 season.

Here are 10 things we would like to see in the second half of 2022.

After Charles Leclerc retired from the lead for the third time this season in France, team principal Mattia Binotto preferred to look on the bright side.

There was no reason, he insisted, why Ferrari could not win all of the remaining races of 2022 to take the title.

The nature of their defeat in Hungary seven days later, Max Verstappen winning a race Leclerc could not afford to lose and from 10th on the grid, strongly suggested otherwise.

Ferrari’s ability to grab defeat from the jaws of victory knows no limits but with Leclerc driving beautifully and the F1-75 still a gem of a car, why can’t they at least make it interesting – and make Red Bull nervous – in the final nine races?

If Ferrari are set to finish second in 2022, the time has come to go down fighting.

Back in the real world, however, Red Bull already have both titles in the bag.

Eighty points ahead of Leclerc, Verstappen is now too complete a driver to be caught, while the team’s towering advantage in the Constructors’ will be healthy for as long as Ferrari remain unreliable.

This has rapidly become the season of dreams for Red Bull, who in October will return to race in the land where those dreams were powered.

Although Honda officially withdrew from F1 at the end of last season, their continued contribution