It's time to make outlandish (or safe) predictions again. As usual, you don't even have to have faith in your own predictions, but can just do them for a bit of fun. Mine are for fun and they sort of represent some of what I think, without my having total belief in all these ideas.
If you can make them as verifiable as possible, that's better. My Number 10 isn't!
On Friday morning, on the eve of the season, the thread will be closed and reopened after the chequered flag falls in Abu Dhabi in November.
1. Lewis Hamilton will win his eighth world championship.
2. Lewis Hamilton will not retire before the end of the calendar year.
3. Charles Leclerc will finish second in the championship.
4. Mercedes will win the constructors' championship yet again.
5. Pérez will win at least three Grands Prix.
6. Verstappen and Hamilton will collide with each other at least four times.
7. Alonso will win at least one Grand Prix.
8. A team who did not win a Grand Prix in 2021 will win one in 2022.
9. All scheduled Grands Prix weekends will go ahead.
10. Porpoising will get mentioned repeatedly in press pen interviews at the beginning of the season.
11. Everyone who scored points and outscored their team-mate in 2021 will do the same again, except Russell.
12. Oscar Piastri will get to do a Grand Prix.
