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2022 FIA Formula One World Championship
12 Round
2022 French Grand Prix
Circuit Paul Ricard
Le Castellet, France
Sunday, 24 July 2022
The 2022
French Grand Prix is set to take place in Le Castellet which is a town in Southeastern France on July 24.
This will be the 12th round of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship season and it will be held at the Circuit Paul Ricard.
Having been established in 1906, the French Grand Prix is one of the oldest motor races in the world as well as the first Grand Prix.
The most recent race in the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship season was the Austrian Grand Prix which was won by Charles Leclerc of Ferrari on July 10.
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Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing-RBPT and Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finished second and third respectively at Red Bull Ring in Spielberg.
Therefore, Verstappen remains at the top of the 2022 Drivers' Championship standings having accumulated 208 points.
Leclerc (170 points) and Red Bull Racing-RBPT driver Sergio Perez (151 points) are placed second and third respectively in the standings 11 races into the 2022 season.
Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr (133 points), Mercedes driver George Russell (128 points) and Hamilton (109 points) are placed fourth, fifth and sixth respectively in the standings.
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"We started on the Hard tyre because I made a mistake in qualifying and we thought that risk gave us the best opportunity later in the race but there was just very little grip at the start," Russell said after the Austrian Grand Prix where he finished fourth.
"It’s the hardest compound, it’s cold out there and I got swamped by all the cars. The next thing I know I got touched, I was on the side of Zhou [Guanyu], and that was it. I jumped out of the car to see if Zhou was okay and I saw it was red flagged straight away but when I came back to the car.
"I couldn’t quite get it started for whatever reason, so I ran back to the team to check. I asked the marshals to leave the car and next thing, when I got back, the car was on the back of the flatbed which meant I couldn’t restart.
"It was obviously frustrating for my race because the car just had the puncture and there’s no doubt we had the pace to come back to P6 today but I’m just glad that Zhou was Okay."
Red Bull Racing-RBPT are placed at the top of the Constructors' Championship standings and they are followed by Ferrari and Mercedes respectively.
2021 French Grand Prix results
Winner: Max Verstappen - Red Bull Racing-Honda
Second-Place: Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes
Third-Place: Sergio Perez - Red Bull Racing-Honda
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