Just 3 several years in the past, Ferrari manufactured their worst period in 4 a long time, slumping to sixth in the championship.

So it will be lead to for alarm that, 3 races into the new period, they are on program to do even even worse.

Ferrari remaining Australia place-significantly less immediately after a race bookended by distress. Charles Leclerc went out in a racing incident on lap a single when Carlos Sainz Jnr, obtaining conquer an however-timed pit quit, copped a 5-next time penalty on the penultimate lap. This could ordinarily price a driver a single put, if that, but as the race completed driving the Security Car or truck the luckless Sainz dropped from fourth to twelfth.

Around the initial 3 races of 2020 and 2023, Ferrari obtained strikingly identical benefits: Two retirements and an ordinary inserting of seven.twenty five in excess of the other benefits. But for the duration of those people 2020 races Leclerc nabbed a next-put end, contributing to a details complete of 27, a single additional than they have right now.

Ferrari endured a grim weekend in AustraliaFerrari has not begun a period as terribly as this considering the fact that 2009. They scored no details in excess of the opening 3 races that 12 months, while only the best 8 areas scored at the time. Even so, with two retirements and finishes of ninth, tenth, 14th and fifteenth they would only have taken 3 details below today’s scoring process.

If this period is not remaining sort to Ferrari, the very last twelve months have been tough on Lewis Hamilton, who has not received a race for additional than a 12 months. Nevertheless he did make his 192nd excursion to the podium very last weekend. He has now stood on the rostrum in seventeen consecutive seasons, breaking Michael Schumacher’s report.

Max Verstappen is the driver who seems most like breaking documents at the instant. He took his thirty seventh earn and twenty second pole placement very last weekend, the latter placing him amount with Fernando Alonso.

There was no hat-trick for Verstappen, even so, as his crew mate Sergio Perez bagged the speediest lap and the reward place. The tenth podium of his job places him amount with a trio of champions: Graham Hill, John Surtees and Mario Andretti.

Verstappen’s sticker album of tracks he’s received at is practically fullVerstappen proceeds to near on a thoroughly clean sweep of wins at just about every circuit on the calendar. The only tracks remaining he is however to earn at are Marina Bay in Singapore, Losail Intercontinental Circuit in Qatar and of program the Las Vegas Strip Circuit which will keep its initial race in December.

This would not be an unparalleled feat: Hamilton’s victory in the 2018 French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard intended he experienced received at the very least as soon as at just about every monitor on that year’s calendar.

Fernando Alonso saved up his report of ending 3rd in just about every race this 12 months. Yuki Tsunoda also completed eleventh on the monitor for the 3rd race jogging, even so Sainz’s penalty promoted him to tenth put for his and AlphaTauri’s initial place of the period.

McLaren also bought off the mark in Australia the place both of those motorists scored details. That contain rookie driver Oscar Piastri, who relished the scarce accolade of scoring details in his initial visual appeal in his dwelling region and town.

With that, all ten groups have scored details within just the initial 3 races of the period. Which is a single race before than it took place very last 12 months.

A few races into very last 12 months, a single crew was however to rating: Aston Martin. These days they lie next in the championship with sixty five details, ten additional than they managed by means of the complete of very last 12 months. How occasions modify.

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