The danger for Red Bull in its Barcelona F1 team orders choice

OPINION: Red Bull walked into a team orders saga on its way to taking a Spanish Grand Prix 1-2 last weekend, where it took the lead of the 2022 Formula 1 world championships for the first time. But its decisions have added an element of risk to later races.

Alex Kalinauckas May 25, 2022, 2:45 PM

From 46 (drivers’) and 49 (constructors’) points down leaving the Australian Grand Prix last month, to leading both 2022 Formula 1 world championships heading to this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix. It’s been quite a turnaround for Red Bull.

The gaps were in a sense artificially inflated – because the Bahrain double DNF and Max Verstappen failing to finish in Australia too meant Ferrari and Charles Leclerc got free passes to romp ahead in the standings.

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Author Alex Kalinauckas

Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.