The familiar Paul Ricard weakness that should worry Ferrari at the French GP

The Red Bull and Ferrari battle for supremacy takes to Formula 1's next battleground at the Paul Ricard circuit. Although the Scuderia ended Friday's running ahead of the French Grand Prix with an advantage in the timesheets, it has a clear weakness - displayed last year - that Red Bull has a chance to exploit

Alex Kalinauckas Jul 22, 2022, 7:47 PM

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Blue and red have been the colours of the 2022 Formula 1 season so far. The dominant corporate liveries of Red Bull and Ferrari have been taken to each victory in the opening half of the campaign.

Blue currently leads red 7-4 on that front. And the bold stripes that famously line the masses of Paul Ricard runoff have blue in front of red too. But it was the Scuderia that ended the first day of the French Grand Prix ahead of its championship rival.

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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.