Sir Jackie Stewart: 'Ferrari should have won more F1 races in 2022'

After two seasons without a single Grand Prix win, Sir Jackie Stewart says it was "good for motorsport" to see the Scuderia back on top of the podium this past season.

But, he, like many others, says they didn't do as well as "perhaps they should have".

Paying the price for their engine scandal from 2019, Ferrari was down on power and performance in 2020 and began their climb back to the front of the field last year.

However, it wasn't until this season and Formula 1's all-new technical regulations that they were back to winning races, the Scuderia taking four.

The many blunders

While that should have meant a positive season, the team runner-up in the standings, 2022 will instead be remembered for the strategic blunders that cost Charles Leclerc wins and the reliability issues that hampered both drivers.

With Ferrari's challenge faltering, seemingly race by race, Red Bull and Max Verstappen came to the fore, with the Milton Keynes squad taking the double.

It was the first year since 2013, the last time Red Bull held the double, that Mercedes didn't win either the Drivers' or Constructors' title.

"There's always somebody who's a leader," Stewart told PlanetF1.com. "And it changes from time to time.

"Whether it was a great [Juan Manuel] Fangio all those years ago or [Alberto] Ascari, whether it was Jim Clark, whether it was Ayrton Senna or Alain Prost, whether it was somebody called Jackie Stewart for a while, there's always somebody out there who leads the pack, and has it for a period of time.

"But I think Lewis Hamilton has done extremely well over a great number of years. Mercedes-Benz gave him the very best kit, but he still had to drive it.

"Now Red Bull, who have been competitive for very many years with a lot of different