Debate: Ferrari will beat McLaren and Red Bull in the F1 World Championship
Ferrari put themselves back in the mix for the Constructors' World Championship by securing a one-two finish at the United States Grand Prix weekend. Charles Leclerc made an impressive move at the start of the race and never looked back. Carlos Sainz worked his way through to second. It puts Ferrari 48 points behind with five Grands Prix and three sprint races remaining.
Those who thought Ferrari would no longer compete in the constructors' championship in motorsport's premier class were wrong. The constructor are already almost level with Red Bull Racing. There are still five Grands Prix left on the Formula 1 calendar this season. The F1 circus still travels to Mexico, Brazil, Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi.
World championship standings with Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari
Ferrari is currently on 496 points in the constructors' championship. Red Bull Racing, with Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, has only scored eight more points in total this season. The gap to McLaren is not huge either. The team of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri has a 40-point lead over Red Bull, and thus 48 points over Ferrari.
The debate is as follows: Will Ferrari win the World Championship? Vote in the poll below and let your opinion be known in the comments.
This article has been created in collaboration with Matt Gretton
I don t make predictions because everything can happen....Anyway the team who will bring much more updates in these last races which will works will win...
This is most probably one of the most interesting seasons in F1 for me. In the beginning max dominated. Won races with 20 seconds. Then McLaren did the same. Now Ferrari is dominating. Mercedes is not to far behind before this past race. Can this be a window into the future and can this be the beginning of an extremely action pack to the end of season. The top four teams all got it right at one stage of the season. Just imagine the top 4 teams get it right in the same race. It will be a 7 man fight "excluding checo for obvious reasons. I can't see Oscar backing down for lando or Carlos for Charles. For me lewis and Russell is on par with one another. All depends on qualifying for them.
The performance of the Ferrari wont give the required combined driver performance skills of Charles and Sainz to beat the combo of Lando & Piastri. It is different at RB when 70% of the team's points comes from one driver, so to make up the 14 points gap to RB shouldnt be difficult. RB will likely finish in P3 this season. However, at McL, their two drivers combined skills are a match for the combined driver talents at Ferrari, so to make up the present 54 points gap is not going to be that easy.
I want Ferrari to win this championship, because this is maybe the last season I'm supporting them in the Constructors Championship. But I really want McLaren get the fewest time in the wind tunnel, to stop potentially hear or read more and more Zak & Andrea's moanings next season. But then again, if McLaren win this season, I'm sure they will be cockier more than ever... so... It's a dilemma.
Think mexico ferrari will strugl like did last year and other teams will with the altitude and cars over heat more like merc.
Car is certainly capable. If trackside team executes all remaining weekends as perfectly as COTA, Ferrari genuinely have a chance. One weekend like Singapore (where they should have won) and it will be game over. It's basically Ferrari vs McLaren in constructors.
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