Out of all the drivers who raced the full season, Lance Stroll contributed the lowest share of his team’s score, 25.5% (0.3% less than Perez at Red Bull)
Fernando Alonso
Among those not in a Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari or Mercedes, Fernando Alonso was first to the flag more times than anyone else, racking up eight ‘best of the rest’ finishes
A separate article about Perez’s stats speaks volumes about his season as a whole.
Overall, interesting stats regarding each driver.
The Piastri one is, of course, something I already noted in the Abu Dhabi GP stats & facts article.
Being reserved with judgment on Doohan is definitely valid, given expecting anything from him at such short notice was effectively impossible.
Next season is another matter with proper off & pre-season preparations.
Another note-worthy aspect about Colapinto is that he scored more points in nine GPs than Sargeant managed in 37, even more so in two already.
Not sure all of these are that telling. Should supposedly positive stat is only a positive because he almost always qualified last and gained from retirements to gain those places.
I feel that Sargeant if anything almost deserves a statistic of beating Albon once this year in Canada. He literally would have qualified better than Albon regardless if he had been allowed to use his own car. But instead, Albon got it after destroying his own. Even with an additional car Albon somehow still has raced the least laps of any driver over the fill season.
I also don’t really think Bottas getting no points is telling. He would have got points in Bahrain, probably China and Qatar too if things didn’t go against him.
I also don’t really think Bottas getting no points is telling. He would have got points in Bahrain, probably China and Qatar too if things didn’t go against him.
Well, the incidents with both drivers were clearly his fault, and the one with Magnussen was a rare mistake by any driver. A lock up to that extent with no driver ahead making Bottas lose downforce. Looking at his onboard, he left breaking until a little too late, but applied the breaks at the same time as steering a bit which I think triggered it.
He indeed did cause himself to bounce into Perez, but Red Bull actually confirmed that that was not the reason why Perez retired, and he infact had a clutch issue before it even happened. Bottas clearly spun Perez, but it was such a light tap on his rear left tyre that it simply won’t have damaged anything. Compare it to Bottas (coincidently in the same race) colliding very heavily into Magnussen’s left rear tyre, and broke his own suspension, yet Magnusson continued and set fastest lap. I think the penalty handed out to Bottas at the start was sort of influenced by Perez retiring for an unrelated reason that at the time looked related. Incidents like that on the first lap usually don’t get punished. Example being Hulkenberg when he actually was fully responsible for taking out BOTH Ocon and Colapinto at the first corner in Qatar.
Well, the incidents with both drivers were clearly his fault
The “super unlucky” was a tongue-in-cheek quote, from another driver in a very similar situation.
He, of course, can do no wrong so he was “super unlucky”; whereas Bottas apologised.
Sargeant didn’t once qualify ahead of Albon, but when Perez’ slump started, Sargeant did outqualify him.
Imola no time set Sargeant
Monaco 15-16
Canada 13-16
Spain 20-8
Austria 19-8
Britain 12-19
Hungary 14-16
Belgium 19-3
Dutch no time set Sargeant
Piastri’s one is mighty impressive. In his second season of F1.
How often does that happen? I guess drivers have trundled round at the back and kept finishing – does it still count if they got lapped?
No, because the driver would not be completing all the race laps and, consequently, not all the season laps.
Just 3 drivers ever managed to do this, Schumacher in 2002, Hamilton in 2019, and Max in 2023.
Needless to say, reliability is much better now than in earlier years of F1, so it can happen from time to time.
Edvaldo True, although Hamilton also managed to reach the chequered flag in all 2017 races, but failed at completing all possible racing laps as he got lapped in the Mexican GP & the same with Kimi in 2012, Ricciardo in 2016, & Sainz in 2021.
Lewis needs to work on his qualifying. I wouldn’t make beating a George or Charles on Saturday a huge goal, though. If he starts within three places of them he should be able to pass them in the race. If there’s time it would be good to prioritise a race setup without ending up ten positions off where the car should be.
As I stated below, HAM prefers to set up the car for racing and not qualifying so he probably doesn’t need to work on qualifying but could work on a setting up differently.
Let’s see what happens. I think he was fussing too much about qualifying. It’s going to be difficult to just do okay when the field is this close, but if he sets up for the race and can still qualify consistently in the top eight where the car should be, he can make up positions with his race pace. I think he will beat Charles there.
“Out of the drivers who entered every race, Lewis Hamilton gained the most places in grands prix, an average of 2.26 per race”
Relative easy if your qualifying performance took a massive nose in 2024 – avg starting position Hamilton was 8.83 versus his teammate 5.625. Even worse on average Hamilton only started 0.55 grid position ahead of Perez.
9 out of 24 races Lewis didn’t qualify top 8 despite all year having at minimal the 4th fastest car and some weekends even the (close to) fastest car also indicated by the 4 pole positions by Russell.
I think it’s both: yes, hamilton prefers to have a fast race than qualifying car in recent times, however he was already like that in 2023, and in that case he matched russell in qualifying head to heat, while here russell dominated.
Pierre Gasly was the only full-season driver that didn’t cost his team any crash damage in 2024, which is really remarkable considering that Alpine struggled most of their season for example against the Williamses, that had to take 11 million dollars worth of crash damage done by their drivers combined.
Out of all the drivers who raced the full season, Lance Stroll contributed the lowest share of his team’s score, 25.5% (0.3% less than Perez at Red Bull)
I think this is only including drivers that contributed to the points, which Bottas unfortuantly didn’t at all. Not that that was reflective when if he had better luck, he likely would have got several more points than Zhou has got now.
True, unfortunately this bad luck has been constant for bottas, even when he was at mercedes he had for example a puncture at the last lap when in the lead in baku and ended up with no points; wolff himself said sometime: “If it weren’t for bad luck, he wouldn’t have luck at all”.
We can add the fact he went to sauber and it looked decent, vasseur went to ferrari, the team got worse and didn’t give bottas a car good enough to continue in f1, even if he’d be good enough to be number 2 at red bull for example.
wsrgo (@wsrgo)
17th December 2024, 12:47
Perez lmao
David BR (@david-br)
17th December 2024, 13:45
Perez literally does have 24 telling stats on how bad he’s been…
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
17th December 2024, 16:19
@wsrgo @david-br I didn’t want to do any more. I had the kid from the Simpsons episode crying “stop, he’s already dead” in my head…
theRealMax (@millionus)
17th December 2024, 21:39
:)
Jere (@jerejj)
17th December 2024, 13:18
A separate article about Perez’s stats speaks volumes about his season as a whole.
Overall, interesting stats regarding each driver.
The Piastri one is, of course, something I already noted in the Abu Dhabi GP stats & facts article.
Being reserved with judgment on Doohan is definitely valid, given expecting anything from him at such short notice was effectively impossible.
Next season is another matter with proper off & pre-season preparations.
Another note-worthy aspect about Colapinto is that he scored more points in nine GPs than Sargeant managed in 37, even more so in two already.
Simon
17th December 2024, 20:32
https://shorturl.at/L9oLo
Sumedh
17th December 2024, 13:19
Piastri didn’t take any pole? Even in sprints?
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
17th December 2024, 13:39
Not sure all of these are that telling. Should supposedly positive stat is only a positive because he almost always qualified last and gained from retirements to gain those places.
I feel that Sargeant if anything almost deserves a statistic of beating Albon once this year in Canada. He literally would have qualified better than Albon regardless if he had been allowed to use his own car. But instead, Albon got it after destroying his own. Even with an additional car Albon somehow still has raced the least laps of any driver over the fill season.
I also don’t really think Bottas getting no points is telling. He would have got points in Bahrain, probably China and Qatar too if things didn’t go against him.
SteveP
17th December 2024, 18:00
Super unlucky in Abu Dhabi.
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
17th December 2024, 22:32
Well, the incidents with both drivers were clearly his fault, and the one with Magnussen was a rare mistake by any driver. A lock up to that extent with no driver ahead making Bottas lose downforce. Looking at his onboard, he left breaking until a little too late, but applied the breaks at the same time as steering a bit which I think triggered it.
He indeed did cause himself to bounce into Perez, but Red Bull actually confirmed that that was not the reason why Perez retired, and he infact had a clutch issue before it even happened. Bottas clearly spun Perez, but it was such a light tap on his rear left tyre that it simply won’t have damaged anything. Compare it to Bottas (coincidently in the same race) colliding very heavily into Magnussen’s left rear tyre, and broke his own suspension, yet Magnusson continued and set fastest lap. I think the penalty handed out to Bottas at the start was sort of influenced by Perez retiring for an unrelated reason that at the time looked related. Incidents like that on the first lap usually don’t get punished. Example being Hulkenberg when he actually was fully responsible for taking out BOTH Ocon and Colapinto at the first corner in Qatar.
SteveP
18th December 2024, 7:26
The “super unlucky” was a tongue-in-cheek quote, from another driver in a very similar situation.
He, of course, can do no wrong so he was “super unlucky”; whereas Bottas apologised.
Señor Sjon
17th December 2024, 13:49
Sargeant didn’t once qualify ahead of Albon, but when Perez’ slump started, Sargeant did outqualify him.
Imola no time set Sargeant
Monaco 15-16
Canada 13-16
Spain 20-8
Austria 19-8
Britain 12-19
Hungary 14-16
Belgium 19-3
Dutch no time set Sargeant
Luke S (@joeypropane)
17th December 2024, 13:54
Nice touch on the Leclerc stat to show a picture with 11 cars behind him – really puts into perspective the gains he made on a single lap.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
18th December 2024, 3:34
Yes, I think they showed this picture before when talking about his recovery, either somewhere here or on the broadcast after the race.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
18th December 2024, 9:37
@joeypropane Thanks – there’s nothing like finding just the right picture!
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
17th December 2024, 14:16
Piastri’s one is mighty impressive. In his second season of F1.
How often does that happen? I guess drivers have trundled round at the back and kept finishing – does it still count if they got lapped?
Edvaldo
17th December 2024, 14:33
No, because the driver would not be completing all the race laps and, consequently, not all the season laps.
Just 3 drivers ever managed to do this, Schumacher in 2002, Hamilton in 2019, and Max in 2023.
Needless to say, reliability is much better now than in earlier years of F1, so it can happen from time to time.
Jonathan Parkin
17th December 2024, 15:44
Just noticed it’s happened consecutively for the first time. Are we going to have a hat trick in 2025
Jere (@jerejj)
18th December 2024, 7:56
Edvaldo True, although Hamilton also managed to reach the chequered flag in all 2017 races, but failed at completing all possible racing laps as he got lapped in the Mexican GP & the same with Kimi in 2012, Ricciardo in 2016, & Sainz in 2021.
juan fanger (@juan-fanger)
18th December 2024, 10:42
Kimi in 2012 – is that the one where he would have done all the laps but got lost after a minor off and attempted to leave Interlagos?
Nulla Pax (@nullapax)
17th December 2024, 18:43
That picture of Logan Sargeant is a classic.
It looks like he is still trying to drive it in a kind of Wacky Races episode :)
An Sionnach
17th December 2024, 19:32
Lewis needs to work on his qualifying. I wouldn’t make beating a George or Charles on Saturday a huge goal, though. If he starts within three places of them he should be able to pass them in the race. If there’s time it would be good to prioritise a race setup without ending up ten positions off where the car should be.
An Sionnach
17th December 2024, 19:33
On the Yuki stat… I’m not sure this means he’s a great qualifier as he can unnecessarily lose positions.
Jim from US (@jimfromus)
17th December 2024, 21:06
As I stated below, HAM prefers to set up the car for racing and not qualifying so he probably doesn’t need to work on qualifying but could work on a setting up differently.
wsrgo (@wsrgo)
18th December 2024, 3:42
@jimfromus Unfortunately for Lewis, I think Leclerc spent most of 2024 focusing on race setups too, which is why his race pace was generally good.
An Sionnach
18th December 2024, 14:31
Let’s see what happens. I think he was fussing too much about qualifying. It’s going to be difficult to just do okay when the field is this close, but if he sets up for the race and can still qualify consistently in the top eight where the car should be, he can make up positions with his race pace. I think he will beat Charles there.
Ajaxn
18th December 2024, 13:02
Hamilton needs to be allowed to qualify unhindered. eg Cold-tyres gate
F1statsfan (@f1statsfan)
17th December 2024, 20:28
“Out of the drivers who entered every race, Lewis Hamilton gained the most places in grands prix, an average of 2.26 per race”
Relative easy if your qualifying performance took a massive nose in 2024 – avg starting position Hamilton was 8.83 versus his teammate 5.625. Even worse on average Hamilton only started 0.55 grid position ahead of Perez.
9 out of 24 races Lewis didn’t qualify top 8 despite all year having at minimal the 4th fastest car and some weekends even the (close to) fastest car also indicated by the 4 pole positions by Russell.
Jim from US (@jimfromus)
17th December 2024, 21:05
Or is it evidence that HAM prefers to set up his car for the race and not qualifying?
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
18th December 2024, 3:43
I think it’s both: yes, hamilton prefers to have a fast race than qualifying car in recent times, however he was already like that in 2023, and in that case he matched russell in qualifying head to heat, while here russell dominated.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
18th December 2024, 3:44
head to head*
Maimai (@maimai)
17th December 2024, 20:52
Lance Stroll extends his own record, by completing his 8th rookie season.
Unicron (@unicron2002)
17th December 2024, 23:41
This made me titter
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
18th December 2024, 3:45
The question is: will he retire as a rookie, or will he ever become an experienced driver?
AndrewT (@andrewt)
17th December 2024, 21:15
Pierre Gasly was the only full-season driver that didn’t cost his team any crash damage in 2024, which is really remarkable considering that Alpine struggled most of their season for example against the Williamses, that had to take 11 million dollars worth of crash damage done by their drivers combined.
juan fanger (@juan-fanger)
18th December 2024, 10:46
Sort of making up for previous seasons when he was capable of taking out 2 Alpines at a time.
hje
18th December 2024, 12:13
Which is also not true, because he did got crash damage already in Japan.
notagrumpyfan
17th December 2024, 22:21
I’d give that one to Bottas.
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
17th December 2024, 22:36
I think this is only including drivers that contributed to the points, which Bottas unfortuantly didn’t at all. Not that that was reflective when if he had better luck, he likely would have got several more points than Zhou has got now.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
18th December 2024, 3:47
True, unfortunately this bad luck has been constant for bottas, even when he was at mercedes he had for example a puncture at the last lap when in the lead in baku and ended up with no points; wolff himself said sometime: “If it weren’t for bad luck, he wouldn’t have luck at all”.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
18th December 2024, 3:48
We can add the fact he went to sauber and it looked decent, vasseur went to ferrari, the team got worse and didn’t give bottas a car good enough to continue in f1, even if he’d be good enough to be number 2 at red bull for example.
drmouse (@drmouse)
19th December 2024, 8:20
The way that headline is worded suggests that you’ll be providing 24 stats per driver….