Alfphatauri, a team associated with Red Bull, faces the 2022 season after an excellent 2021 season in which it found itself fighting for fifth place in the constructors' standings with Alpine. Thanks to the technical support of Red Bull and the performance of the Honda engine (renamed Red Bull Powertrains in 2022), the team from Faenza is aiming for a quiet championship. The drivers are Pierre Gasly (winner at Monza in 2020) and Yuki Tsunoda.
The Danhausen company of Aachen, Germany, began producing its own series of handcrafted 1:43 models under the names Metal 43, Plumbies, SD Models and Minichamps in 1974. Between 1976 and 1990, AMR produced over 70 different Minichamps models for Danhausen. The mass production of highly detailed die-cast model cars, marketed under the name Minichamps, began in China in 1990 and marked a real revolution in the field of model making, with high quality products at extremely competitive prices. Minichamps models are developed in Germany, but production and assembly takes place in the Far East. In less than ten years Minichamps practically became the reference in the diecast sector. In 2004 the first resin miniatures were introduced. Over the years other scales have been developed significantly, including 1:18. The Maxichamps range, which includes affordable reissues of older Minichamps items, was introduced in 2016.