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The 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship was a motor racing championship for Formula One cars, which was the 73rd running of the Formula One World Championship.[lower-alpha 1] It was be the first season of F1 22 Driver Career. It is recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of international motorsport, as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. The championship was contested over twenty-two Grands Prix.
Drivers and teams competed for the titles of World Drivers' Champion and World Constructors' Champion, respectively. The 2022 championship saw the introduction of significant changes to the sport's technical regulations. These changes had been intended to be introduced in 2021, but were delayed until 2022 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Max Verstappen, who was the reigning Drivers' Champion, claimed his second title at the São Paulo Grand Prix, while Ferrari, achieved their seventeenth World Constructor Championship, at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which was their first since 2008. Mercedes were the reigning Constructors' Champion.
This was the final season for four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel, and two-time World Champion Fernando Alonso.
The following constructors and drivers were under contract to compete in the 2022 World Championship.
Entrant | Constructor | Chassis | Race drivers | ||
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No. | Driver name | Rounds | |||
Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen | Alfa Romeo-Ferrari | C42 | 24 77 |
Zhou Guanyu Valtteri Bottas |
All All |
Scuderia AlphaTauri | AlphaTauri-RBPT | AT03 | 10 22 |
Pierre Gasly Yuki Tsunoda |
All All |
BWT Alpine F1 Team | Alpine-Renault | A522 | 14 31 |
Fernando Alonso Esteban Ocon |
All All |
Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team | Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes | AMR22 | 5 18 |
Sebastian Vettel Lance Stroll |
All All |
Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari | F1-75 | 16 55 |
Charles Leclerc Carlos Sainz Jr. |
All All |
Haas F1 Team | Haas-Ferrari | VF-22 | 20 47 |
Kevin Magnussen Mick Schumacher |
All All |
McLaren F1 Team | McLaren-Mercedes | MCL36 | 3 4 |
Daniel Ricciardo Lando Norris |
All All |
Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team | Mercedes | F1 W13 | 44 63 |
Lewis Hamilton George Russell |
All All |
Oracle Red Bull Racing | Red Bull Racing-RBPT | RB18 | 1 11 |
Max Verstappen Sergio Pérez |
All All |
Williams Racing | Williams-Mercedes | FW44 | 6 7 |
Nicholas Latifi Izz Ford |
All All |
Honda initially stated that they would not supply power units beyond 2021. The company had provided power units to Scuderia AlphaTauri (previously called Scuderia Toro Rosso) since 2018 and to Red Bull Racing since 2019. Initially, Red Bull Racing planned to take over Honda's engine programme and manage it in-house, under a new division called Red Bull Powertrains. The decision was made after lobbying the other nine teams to negotiate an engine development freeze until 2025. Red Bull Racing acknowledged that they would have left the championship if the engine development freeze had not been agreed to as they could not develop a brand new engine, and both Red Bull Racing and Renault were unwilling to resume their former partnership.
Kimi Räikkönen retired following the conclusion of the 2021 championship; Räikkönen won 21 races, and the 2007 World Drivers' Championship across a 19 season Formula career. Räikkönen's seat at Alfa Romeo was filled by Valtteri Bottas, who left Mercedes after 5 seasons. George Russell replaced Bottas, vacating the seat that he had held for the past 3 seasons at Williams. Russell was replaced by Izz Ford, who finished third in the 2021 Formula 2 Championship. Izz became the first Singaporean driver to compete in Formula One.
Zhou Guanyu, who won the 2021 Formula 2 Championship, joined Alfa Romeo, in place of Antonio Giovinazzi, who had been at the team since 2019. Zhou as well became the first Chinese driver to compete in Formula One.
Nikita Mazepin was originally contracted to compete for Haas, as part of a multi-year contract that started in 2021. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resultant cancellation of Uralkali's title sponsorship of Haas, his contract was terminated. He was replaced by Kevin Magnussen, who had last competed in 2020 with the same team.
The 2022 calendar consisted of twenty-two events. The Emilia Romagna, Austrian and São Paulo Grands Prix featured the sprint format.
Points were awarded to the top ten classified drivers, the driver who set the fastest lap during the Grand Prix (only if one of the top ten), and the top eight of the sprint.[lower-alpha 7] In the case of a tie on points a countback system was used where the driver with the most Grand Prix wins was ranked higher. If the number of wins was identical then the number of second places was considered, and so on. The points were awarded for every race using the following system.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | FL |
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Race | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Sprint[lower-alpha 2] | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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