{"id":13988,"date":"2023-03-04T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=13988"},"modified":"2023-03-04T08:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T13:30:05","slug":"f1-predictions-who-wins-the-driver-constructors-championships-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/03\/04\/f1-predictions-who-wins-the-driver-constructors-championships-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Predictions: Who wins the Driver &#038; Constructors Championships in 2023?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Can anyone take the championships away from Red Bull and Max Verstappen? The LWOS staff weighs in with their F1 predictions.<\/h3>\n<p>We&#8217;ve finally reached the end of the pre-season F1 predictions series. After getting the team&#8217;s thoughts on which teams will shine and which will falter in 2023, along with which of the three rookies will have the best season, it&#8217;s time to predict who lifts the Driver and Constructors Championship trophies at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>F1 Predictions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/02\/28\/f1-predictions-which-driver-team-will-make-the-biggest-improvement\/\" target=\"_self\">Which Driver &amp; Team will make the biggest improvement?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/03\/01\/f1-predictions-which-driver-team-will-be-the-most-disappointing-in-2023\/\" target=\"_self\">Which Driver &amp; Team will be the most disappointing in 2023?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/03\/02\/f1-predictions-who-will-win-the-rookie-of-the-year-honors\/\" target=\"_self\">Who will win the Rookie of the Year honors<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Driver&#8217;s Championship<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Arturo<\/strong> \u2013 Charles Leclerc<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cameron<\/strong> \u2013 Max Verstappen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fatima<\/strong> \u2013 Lewis Hamilton<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gabe<\/strong> \u2013 Max Verstappen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jack<\/strong> \u2013 Max Verstappen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justin<\/strong> \u2013 Max Verstappen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nathan<\/strong> \u2013 Charles Leclerc<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nelson<\/strong> \u2013 Max Verstappen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patricia<\/strong> \u2013 Max Verstappen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas<\/strong> \u2013 Lewis Hamilton<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vincent<\/strong> \u2013 Max Verstappen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yara<\/strong> \u2013 Lewis Hamilton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No surprise to see Max Verstappen topping the list heading into 2023. After taking the dominant car to the Championship and a record number of wins, the majority of staff believe Verstappen makes it three titles in a row. However, perhaps the surprise in this category is that Lewis Hamilton received more votes (3) than Charles Leclerc (2). Will either team be able to deliver a car that can challenge the Red Bull?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea5 It\u2019s stats out and away we go \ud83e\udd13 The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@F1<\/a> Bahrain Grand Prix \u2026 By The Numbers! \ud83d\udcca\ud83d\udcc8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FIA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BahrainGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BahrainGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6tsHQM2dMD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6tsHQM2dMD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIA (@fia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fia\/status\/1631337909793038355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Constructor&#8217;s Championship<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Arturo<\/strong> \u2013 Mercedes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cameron<\/strong> \u2013 Red Bull<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fatima<\/strong> \u2013 Ferrari<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gabe<\/strong> \u2013 Red Bull<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jack<\/strong> \u2013 Mercedes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justin<\/strong> \u2013 Red Bull<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nathan<\/strong> \u2013 Red Bull<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nelson<\/strong> \u2013 Mercedes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patricia<\/strong> \u2013 Red Bull<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas<\/strong> \u2013 Mercedes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vincent<\/strong> \u2013 Mercedes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yara<\/strong> \u2013 Mercedes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is based on the end of 2022, blind hope for a more competitive season, or do they simply see something else? Mercedes, yes last year&#8217;s third-place team, received more picks (6) to retake the Constructor&#8217;s Championship than Red Bull (5) or Ferarri (1). Will they make that big of a jump? Could their radical no-side pod design end up coming around to be the top design at some point during the 2023 season? If that&#8217;s the case, it&#8217;ll be unexpected for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Will it be a repeat in 2023 or will someone new take one or both of the championships? Let us know your F1 predictions in the LWOS comment section below.<\/p>\n<h5>Featured Image Credit: Ferrari Media Portal<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can anyone take the championships away from Red Bull and Max Verstappen? The LWOS staff weighs in with their F1 predictions. We&#8217;ve finally reached the end of the pre-season F1 predictions series. After getting the team&#8217;s thoughts on which teams will shine and which will falter in 2023, along with which of the three rookies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4061,"featured_media":13999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[445,84,76,79,121,78],"class_list":["post-13988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-formula-1","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-ferrari","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mercedes","tag-red-bull-racing"],"modified_by":"Nathan Reynolds","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}