After Charles Leclerc and Ferrari utterly dominated the Australian Grand Prix to grab an early advantage in the 2022 Formula 1 season, Max Verstappen and Red Bull repaid the favour at Imola – profiting from both the sprint race format and Leclerc’s late error at the Variante Alta.
F1 returned to Europe for the first time since the tentative days of the opening pre-season test in Barcelona which marked the start of the new rules era, and while the tifosi turned out in numbers for another Ferrari show, it was Red Bull who made all the headlines.
