Quick as a flash, Formula 1 testing is over, the 2022 season is upon us - and the question we all want to know the answer to is: who is fastest?
The final leaderboard is a little misleading so we have gone way beyond that by scrutinising the headline laptimes, analysing long runs, watching trackside, hearing from the teams themselves and assessing other factors like reliability and mileage.
And because we’re apparently desperate to get torn to pieces in the comments - and maybe even by a few people in the F1 paddock - we’ve combined all we know and done our best to rank the teams after pre-season.
To start with our F1 journalists - Edd Straw, Mark Hughes and me Scott Mitchell - all drew up our own rankings. Some parts were identical, but some were COMPLETELY different.
So after much deliberation and trading of information, this is our best estimate. It is by no means a definitive prediction for the season opener, let alone the 2022 season as a whole.
But we’ve got some strong clues indicating who is in a strong position and who is on the back foot. And setting us ourselves up for failure is all part of the pre-season fun.
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