With mere days until engines fire up on the 2022 world championship in Bahrain, the Formula 1 world is scrambling to figure out the early pecking order. Another unnamed top team representative insists that the Red Bull is “by far the fastest” 2022 car. Ferrari’s Mattia Binotto agrees: “Red Bull have a very strong car, but don’t forget Mercedes. Ferrari’s GPS data analyses reportedly show that Mercedes’ is in fact the fastest car in the slow corners, with ‘porpoising’ on the straights and engine power turned down. “We turned it up once or twice,” a Mercedes engineer insists. Ferrari team boss Binotto continued: “My feeling tells me that it’s all going to be very close. “We have 1000 engineers working on the cars and a dozen experts at the FIA, but that’s just what Formula 1 is all about.

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