63-point F1 championship lead ‘bigger than it should be’

Verstappen scored his seventh win of the 2022 season in Sunday’s French Grand Prix after Leclerc crashed out while leading towards the end of the first stint.

Leclerc qualified on pole for Ferrari and had led by just over one second from Verstappen before Red Bull brought the Dutchman into the pits at the end of lap 16.

Ferrari kept Leclerc out before he crashed on lap 18 follow a mistake, resulting in a safety car that resumed with Verstappen leading from Mercedes’