Mercedes will be back in the Formula 1 title race next year, Charles Leclerc has predicted.
For the Silver Arrows, 2022 was for the most part very much a year to forget. They did eventually manage a victory, in Brazil, and a handful of podiums elsewhere. But by their own standards it was a particularly lean campaign in which Lewis Hamilton and George Russell were forced to fight for scraps.
The Brits did an admirable job of it, maximising their points as much as they could to stay in touch with Ferrari as much as they could. The hope for them next year is that they will once again have a car in which they can fight for race wins on a much more regular basis.
