Is Mercedes going to be a threat to win immediately in 2023?
That’s one of the biggest questions in Formula 1 ahead of the upcoming season that begins on Sunday with the Bahrain Grand Prix . The dominant team of the 2010s was off the mark from the start in 2022 thanks to the radical new car rule changes for the season. Mercedes wasn’t a factor to win for most of the season before George Russell got the team’s only win of the season in Brazil in November.
Mercedes made huge strides over the course of the 2022 season, however, and those gains are a reason for optimism that the team will be much closer to Red Bull and Ferrari at the start of 2023. While Mercedes are deserved underdogs to Red Bull for the constructor’s title and Verstappen is the big favorite to win the driver’s title, an eighth title for Hamilton and another constructor’s title for Mercedes will seem very realistic if the team is competitive over the first few weeks of the season.
Alpine finished fourth in 2022 and was 14 points better than McLaren in fifth. There was a big gap to Alfa Romeo and Aston Martin while Haas edged out AlphaTauri for eighth and Williams scored just eight points all season. Fernando Alonso left Alpine to replace the retired Sebastian Vettel at Aston Martin alongside Lance Stroll. With Piastri finagling a move to McLaren, the team signed Pierre Gasly away from AlphaTauri to race with Ocon. Former Mercedes reserve driver Nyck DeVries takes Gasly’s spot at AlphaTauri after he impressed in spot starts with Williams in 2022.
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