It has been over a month since\u00a0Max Verstappen <\/strong>won a race, his last victory coming at the Canadian Grand Prix. In the meantime, both\u00a0Carlos Sainz\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Charles Leclerc\u00a0<\/strong>captured well-earned wins for Ferrari, with Leclerc’s win in Austrian moving him past Verstappen’s teammate\u00a0Sergio Perez\u00a0<\/strong>for second in the standings, setting the Ferrari driver up well for this weekend’s French Grand Prix.<\/p>\n The race, which was revived in 2018 after a nine-year hiatus, has been won twice by\u00a0Lewis Hamilton\u00a0<\/strong>and once by Verstappen since it returned to the Formula 1 calendar, with no race being contested in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although Mercedes’ performance in 2022 has been somewhat unremarkable, team principal Toto Wolff hinted that Hamilton could grab his fourth podium in a row with “new developments”<\/a> on the Mercedes W13.<\/p>\n Things are a bit different for Red Bull. Although his driver has a 38-point lead in the championship, Christian Horner’s squad is facing upcoming regulations targeting “flexi floors” which may hamper the Milton Keynes-based team’s performance. However, as those regulations don’t take place until after the summer break, Horner’s primary concern may be a bit surprising: track limits. “I expect Paul Ricard to be a bigger problem because you can really gain time there. And of course you have hectares of asphalt there, so that also invites you to drive off-track…”<\/strong><\/p>\n A last-lap battle at Paul Ricard \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n Four drivers gave it their all as they fought it out on the final lap in 2019 \u2694\ufe0f#FrenchGP<\/a> #F1<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/dWH2Mg9T1w<\/a><\/p>\n — Formula 1 (@F1) July 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n