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Red Bull’s Christian Horner says the amount of overtaking at the front early in 2022 is a level of action not seen in F1 for a long time.

We are only two races into the season, but already we have seen the winner of those races decided after thrilling battles between the leading duo.

In Bahrain it was Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc who won out in a multi-lap battle with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen after their first stops, the Monegasque driver going on to claim victory from there as Verstappen suffered a late retirement.

But at Round 2 in Saudi Arabia, after the pair had gone to battle again during the closing stages, Verstappen came out the victor, taking the lead and converting that into his first win of the season.

It had been the aim of these new 2022 cars to allow drivers to follow more closely, thus increasing overtaking opportunities, but Horner is a little taken aback by the amount of action that has been going on at the business end of the order.

“In the last two races, Charles and Max probably overtook each other 10 times at the front. You haven’t seen anything like that for a long time,” he told Auto Motor und Sport.

Red Bull’s driver programme boss Helmut Marko added: “I didn’t believe after last year there was any