Your favourite moments of the 2022 F1 season

You voted in your thousands and now the results of Motor Sport’s inaugural Season Review Awards are in.

Formula 1 sizzled with drama and excitement in 2022, leaving no shortage of highlights to choose from, so we asked readers to select the best moments from the 22-race calendar.

Unsurprisingly you couldn’t ignore Max Verstappen and Red Bull’s dominance when selecting the driver and team of the year, but the votes were closer than you might expect thanks to George Russell’s assured first season. It almost saw the Mercedes driver take a shock win in the Driver of the Year category.

Months after the British Grand Prix, enough of you were still fired up by the action to vote Carlos Sainz’s debut win the Race of the Year, and Lewis Hamilton’s simultaneous pass on Sergio Pérez and Charles Leclerc as the Overtake of the Year.

Another lively race weekend at the São Paulo Grand Prix, in which Russell took his first F1 win, helped Interlagos to the title of Circuit of the Year, while Sebastian Vettel joins Motor Sport‘s gallery of the greats as this year’s Hall of Fame inductee.

Once the votes were counted all we had to do was chose a winning entrant from the thousands who took part. A name was drawn out of a hat for the incredible first prize of a pair of season tickets to Goodwood events in 2023, including the Festival of Speed, the Members’ Meeting and the Revival. The prize is worth more than £2000, so our hearty congratulations to Mark Keatley-Palmer. And thank you to all our readers who took part.

Best race: British GP

It began in a shower of sparks from Zhou Guanyu’s inverted Alfa and developed into a classic, as Carlos Sainz claimed his first win, ahead of an epic fight for second place.

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Best driver: Max Verstappen

A record 15 grand prix wins and a victory margin of 146 points in 2022 says it all: Max Verstappen was untouchable in 2022.

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Best team: Red Bull

When the fastest car on the grid met  almost infallible strategy with Max Verstappen at the wheel, what chance did its rivals stand?

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Best circuit: Interlagos

São Paulo rarely fails to deliver drama and ’22 was no exception, with plenty of overtaking in the rain-drenched bowl which couldn’t be designed and built today.

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Best overtake: Hamilton on Pérez and Leclerc at the British GP

“Through goes Hamilton!” Crofty could barely keep up with the battle for second-place at Silverstone in the closing laps of the British GP.

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Hall of Fame 2022 winner: Sebastian Vettel

Most of Sebastian Vettel’s success came early in his career, but that was enough to earn his candidacy for a place in our Hall of Fame, and you agreed, voting him in beside the likes of Stirling Moss, Jim Clark and Ayrton Senna. Well done Seb, you’ll be missed on the grid.