2022 Prediction!
#2022 Prediction! (lookback)
soft rock
the faith we all had in danny ric… 
cedar vale
At least I got Zhou scoring some points right.
autumn latch
Zhou beats bottas (by any means, DNF's, outraces etc) for at least 1/3 of the races.
I wonder if this happened.
soft rock
valtteri 15 - zhou 7
so he was one race off
cedar lynx
WDC - Verstappen
WCC - Redbull
Aston Martin will get their First win likely in ...
Got half right, Half absolutely wrong.
Shame we didn't see Toto smashing tables or headsets 
slow ember
valtteri 15 - zhou 7
so he was one race off
close enough, was a fairly respectable performance
Also Bottas-Zhou is the pairing nobody knew we needed in pre season
dreamy crag
Let's hear everyone's prediction for 2022 and see how wrong everyone is after the end of the season.
WDC, WCC, mid season driver change? When will WDC be determined? Will Andretti be allowed in F1? Will VW Group pull out again? Will Sainz beat Leclerc? Will Haas be last again?
Just predictions, no discussions (hence the 6hr slowmode)
This thread will be archived in 3 days.
icy kite
Ricciardo will continue to underperform and be out of a seat by 2024.
Russell will struggle with emotions at Merc and disrupt the team, causing them to lose out on performance.
Sainz will score Ferrari's first win in 2022
Haas will finish 5th with a podium for both KMag & MSC
shut narwhal
my flair says it all
haas wdc- magnussen P1 and mick P2 + WCC
inland bear
WDC Hamilton
WCC Mercedes
WDC Decided by Brazil
Andretti gets approved by Spa
Sainz beats Leclerc
Haas last but respectably so, they score a few points
Other predictions
Mick beats Magnussen
Tsunoda stops sucking in the European legs
Gasly still doesn't get promoted to RB for 2023
El Plan becomes El Pain in Imola
This year TM turns into next year TM in Monza
Magnussen starts beef with Verstappen somehow
Mercedes' annual "we're throwing this race" race comes at Mexico
Latifi beats Albon comfortably
Aston Martin run 3 car concepts this year
Strict track limits will prevent an overtake happening this year to much chagrin
Masi becomes head of remote stewarding team
Number of times wet (blue marked only) tyres used in competitive sessions over the season: 3
Number of times pundits suggest tyre changes should be banned under SC this season: 1
spiral blaze
WDC Verstappen
WCC Ferrari
- Stroll beats Vettel
- Double Ferrari DNF for different reasons
- Tsunoda gets his first podium
- A German race enters the calendar for 2022 or 2023
- Latifi finishes 12th 3 times
- There is a Grosjean Spain 2018 style crash with someone spinning and people being collected
- Piastri runs more than 6 races and scores points in 2
- Williams-Audi gets rumoured a lot more but falls apart
- Mercedes sorts porpoising for Bahrain but it's back in Imola
- Aramco is rumoured at some point to be buying a significant portion or aspect of the sport
velvet dove
WDC Verstappen
WCC Ferrari
Epic final race championship decider yet again
Verstappen,Leclerc and Hamilton to fight for the title, with Russell and Sainz also in contention until round 20
Perez to finish P7, behind VER,LEC,HAM,RUS,SAI,NOR
Aston Martin to win one or even two races
Alpine to have a poor season
Haas and Williams to step up their game
McLaren 4th and with race wins but not close enough to the top 3
Bottas to be a regular points threat, as well as K-Mag
Mercedes to have a Ferrari 2005 style season, with a poor car but heroics from the drivers
Sainz and Norris to fight for their first win at some point in the season
Gasly secures Red Bull 2023 seat after another strong year, Perez to be Albon'ed in 2023 and then join Andretti in 2024
Latifi to score a shock result at some point
sharp totem
3 way fight for constructors: merc, rbr, ferrari
5 way fight for drivers: HAM, SAI, VER, LEC, RUS (PER, NOR rounding up the top 7 above the midfield)
Best of the rest: Mclaren
Worst of the rest: Alfa
+ Bahrain: Ferrari Dominate
+ Saudi: Merc Dominate
+ Melbourne:
+ Imola: Ferrari Merc Podium
+ Miami: RBR win
+ Barcelona: Merc Ferrari Podium
+ Monaco: RBR win
+ Baku: RBR Ferrari Podium
+ Canada: Ferrari win
+ Silverstone: Mercedes 1-3
+ Austria: RBR Ferrari Merc podium
+ Paul Ricard: Ferrari win
+ Hungaroring: around this time it will be announced that Andretti has been accepted
+ Spa: it rains
+ Zandvort: RBR win
+ Monza: Ferrari win
+ Sochi: -> Istanbul
+ Singapore: Merc win
+ Suzuka: Merc win
+ America: Ferrari win, RUS no longer in the title fight
+ Mexico: RBR win, LEC no longer in the title fight
+ Brazil: Merc win
+ Yas Marina: Merc win
HAM and ALO to announce they will be leaving after 2023
Team mates point wise(if both score 0 points then position wise):
HAM > RUS, VER > PER, SAI > LEC, NOR > RIC, OCO > ALO, VET > STR, GAS > TSU, BOT > ZHO, MAG > MSC, ALB > LAT
- WDC Hamilton
- WCC Ferrari
fluid slate
WDC: Carlos Sainz
WCC: RBR
Championship is decided at the last race
Leclerc, Hamilton, Sainz, Verstappen, Russel fight for the championship.
Ferrari win wdc, but lose wcc to RBR because of internal team rivalry.
Vettel wins a race.
Alpine have a bad season.
Williams solidly in midfield.
Mclaren p5 in wcc
Gasly is announced to replace Perez halfway through the season.
Andretti get approved.
hoary lake
WDC: Max
WCC: Ferrari 
3 way fight between Max, Lewis and Charles for the title that is decided at the last race.
Mercedes suffer due to Russell being overwhelmed by expectation, and Lewis loses his edge and comes 3th in WDC, and subsequently announces his retirement
Norris and Sainz get their first wins
Haas get their first podium 
Aston Martin will have a 1-2 
proud walrus
WDC: Verstappen (Sainz a close 2nd)
WCC standings:
- Red Bull
- Ferrari
- Mercedes
- McLaren
- AlphaTauri
- Aston Martin
- Alpine
- Haas
- Williams
- Alfa Romeo
There will be more race winners than last year (up from 6). NOR wins a race, as does RUS.
MAG > MSC.
More than 2 laps will be driven in Spa.
soft rock
1 ver ----- 1 merc
2 ham --- 2 red bull
3 lec ----- 3 ferrari
4 sai ----- 4 mclaren
5 rus ----- 5 alphatauri
6 per ----- 6 aston martin
7 nor ----- 7 alpine
8 gas ----- 8 williams
9 ric ------ 9 haas
10 vet ---- 10 alfa romeo
11 tsu
12 alo
13 alb
14 str
15 oco
16 bot
17 lat
18 mag
19 msc
20 zho
predicting rb to have the quickest car, lewis to have enough fight in him to make up for that and both teams to sacrifice their number 2 enough to allow ferrari a number of podiums. hopefully another nail biter of a season 
rough hatch
I think Ferrari will be the quickest this time
autumn latch
My fav driver, george russell, takes the chequered flag, and wins the azerbajian and belgian grand prix!
- Merc edging out on mclaren by a bit
- Mclaren snaps
- Ferrari's leclerc might get a bit worse, but still wins the monaco gp
- Red bull as sergio perez starts struggling
- Alphatauri might get up as yuki starts to be better with gasly carrying the team with 150 pts
- Alpine
- williams latifi is beginning to get to his prime age with albon doing solid
- Aston martin as stroll might dnf more
- Alfa Romeo with bottas carrying the team
- Hahahaas might just focus too much on 2022 car but miss some few things making it unbalanced
obsidian horizon
- We will have at least 3 fastest cars at different points in the season (merc, ferrari and rbr). i predict a lot of swings and roundabouts in the season with the development. maybe mclaren will join the party.
- No one on the podium except the top 4 teams (merc, mclaren, rbr and ferrari).
- A gargantuan battle for p5 between aston, alpine and alpha tauri.
- Rus outqualifies Lewis
- Albon beats Latifi over the season, but none of them score any points.
- Zhou beats bottas (by any means, DNF's, outraces etc) for at least 1/3 of the races.
- Someone moans about the cost cap.
hexed hawk
WDC Leclerc WCC Ferrari. 2nd Mercedes. 3rd red bull. Haas first podium.
fluid slate
One more prediction: Lewis doesn't have the best car, but does the best driving of his career, and mops the floor with Russel. (Hamilton hater here btw. Can't deny he's fast.)
cedar lynx
WDC - Verstappen
WCC - Redbull
Aston Martin will get their First win likely in 2nd half
Russell gets out raced by Lewis
Alonso gets on to Podium Lewis Finishes in 3rd in WDC.
Norris and Sainz gets their first wins. Yuki his first Podium.
Mick gets Points but Magnussen beats him in standings.
Toto will smash more tables and head sets
rough hatch
Ferrari to take constructors championship and Leclerc for drivers championship
Very close fight for WCC and WDC both
Merc and RB will also contend for the front but Ferrari will win eventually
Verstappen will get more points than Hamilton by a margin again
Hamilton will get more points than Russel for this season atleast
Perez drop in performance
Tsunoda improvement
Haas and Williams much closer to points than before
Williams seem better off in long term
Miracle haas podium for kmag (even bolder one haha)
Alpine will be at 5th again, not much change
Alfa Romeo at the back
Wins for Sainz and Norris
Podium(s) for gasly, vettel, alonso, ocon
Bottas struggles initially but gets to grips with the car as the year moves on
Magnussen will outperform Mick
Title contenders: Leclerc, Max, Sainz, Hamilton, Russell
Best improvements: Tsunoda, Norris, Albon
fluid slate
One more prediction: Hulkenberg finishes P17 in wdc.
spring compass
WCC:
- Mercedes
- Ferrari
- Red Bull
- McLaren
- Alpine
- Aston Martin
- AlphaTauri
- Haas
- Alfa Romeo
- Williams
WDC:
- Leclerc
- Hamilton
- Verstappen
- Russell
- Sainz
- Perez
- Norris
- Alonso
- Ricciardo
- Ocon
- Vettel
- Gasly
- Stroll
- Tsunoda
- Schumacher
- Bottas
- Magnussen
- Albon
- Zhou
- Hulkenberg
- Piastri
- Latifi
- Kubica
- Fittipaldi
- Included a few reserve drivers in because I feel we could see some more absences due to Covid. And I think every driver up there scores points aside from Kubica and Fittipaldi
- Predicting Leclerc to have a monster year and to adapt really well to these new cars, doing enough to keep away a highly motivated Hamilton. Top three teams will be clearly ahead of the rest and I feel Mercedes and Ferrari ends up developing their cars over the season better than Red Bull
- Russell and Sainz finally get their first wins and each end up with two. No one wins a race outside the top five, although Red Bull still like Perez enough to keep him for 2023.
- Aston Martin starts off the season relatively slow but recovers later on with their development. In spite of that Vettel retires and is replaced by Gasly for 2023 while AT replace him by promoting Lawson
- Haas starts off with a fast car, enough for Mick to get into Q3 at Bahrain. But lack of development, reliability issues, and mistakes by Mick and Magnussen see them finish the season only 8th best. Also feel Mick and Magnussen could have a few on track clashes and develop into a rivalry
dreamy crag
Carlos Sainz will win the first and last race of the season
strong tendon
I'll start (or second). Zhou finish above Bottas in 2 wet races of 2022. 
Scroll up ...nvm
torn token
WCC order:
Ferrari
Mercedes
Red Bull
McLaren
AlphaTauri
Alpine
Aston Martin
Haas
Williams
Alfa Romeo
WDC battle between Hamilton and Leclerc. Leclerc takes it at the penultimate race.
Future team changes that will be announced over this year:
- Andretti allowed in as an 11th team, join as a Renault customer.
- Porsche announce engine partnership with Red Bull and start developing engines together with RBPT for the 2026 regs
- Audi will team up with Wiliams. They will use the Porsche/RB engines but rebrand them as Audi.
cedar vale
WDC: Leclerc
WCC: Red Bull
Top 3: Leclerc - Verstappen - Sainz
Zhou scores 5 points.
There will be many floor damage related DNFs.
Renault will be granted extra engine development time,
heavy pendant
Mercedes wins 21/22 races
upbeat hollow
predicting Haas will do better than Alfa, that's all i've got
jaunty skiff
WDC:
- Charles Leclerc
- Max Verstappen
- Carlos Sainz
- Lewis Hamilton
- Sergio Pérez
- George Russell
- Pierre Gasly
- Lando Norris
- Daniel Ricciardo
- Yuki Tsunoda
- Fernando Alonso
- Sebastian Vettel
- Kevin Magnussen
- Mick Schumacher
- Alex Albon
- Valtteri Bottas
- Esteban Ocon
- Lance Stroll
- Guanyu Zhou
- Nicholas Latifi
WCC:
- Ferrari
- Red Bull
- Mercedes
- Alpha Tauri
- McLaren
- Haas
- Aston Martin
- Alpine
- Williams
- Alfa Romeo
- Alpha Tauri, Aston Martin, Haas podium
- Championship results are known before the last race
- 3 to 4 teams fighting for WCC and WDC
- Charles podium in Monaco
- More than one podium for Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda each
raven river
WDC:
- Hamilton
- Verstappen
- Leclerc
- Sainz
- Russell
- Perez
- Gasly
- Norris
- Ricciardo
- Vettel
- Alonso
- Tsunoda
- Ocon
- Stroll
- Bottas
- Albon
- Magnussen
- Schumaucher
- Latifi
- Zhou
WCC: - Mercedes
- Ferrari
- Red Bull
- Mclaren
- Alpha Tauri
- Aston Martin
- Alpine
- Haas
- Alfa Romeo
- Williams
- Top 8 Teams will all get podium
- Leclerc to bottle a win and the championship lead
- Alonso to Retire, Piastri to replace him
- Hamilton to retire after winning 8th title
- Every driver to score points
minor remnant
WDC: Verstappen WCC: Red Bull