When does the Formula 1 2022 season start?

01/27/2022

The Verstappen vs Hamilton battle will renew in Bahrain in March

The biggest season in Formula 1’s history gets underway in March, as the series embarks on an unprecedented 23-race campaign with grand prix events across the globe.

The 202 season brings with it a set of regulation changes designed to shake up the running order and allow cars to race together more closely. The turbo-hybrid era, which began in 2014, may have seen the development of the fastest F1 cars ever seen, but the loss of downforce cars would suffer in the dirty air behind the driver in front would cause them to lose a significant amount of downforce and make overtaking extremely difficult.

Now F1 is returning to ground effect vehicle designs for the first time since the 1980s, and will make its aerodynamic simpler in order to try and help cars follow each other more closely.

The prospect of a second world championship battle between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton is intriguing, certainly, but other drivers could enter the mix for race wins and perhaps even the title itself if their teams have nailed the car design for a brand new era of Formula 1 racing.

The new season kicks off at the Sakhir circuit for the Bahrain Bahrain Grand Prix on 18-20 March.

When does the Formula 1 2022 season start?

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