Compare Jean-Eric Vergne‘s performance against his team mate throughout the 2014 F1 season.
Race finishing positions
| AUS | MAL | BAH | CHI | SPA | MON | CAN | AUS | BRI | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | SIN | JAP | RUS | UNI | BRA | ABU | |
| Jean-Eric Vergne | 8 | – | – | 12 | – | – | 8 | – | 10 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 12 |
| Team mate | 9 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 11 |
Performance comparison
| Jean-Eric Vergne | Daniil Kvyat | |
| Qualified ahead | 7 | 12 |
| Average qualifying gap | -0.005s | – |
| Finished race ahead | 6 | 5 |
| Laps spent ahead | 429 | 377 |
Qualifying gap
Gap in seconds between Jean-Eric Vergne and his team mate in the last part of qualifying where both set a time, for each race.
A positive time means the driver was slower than his team mate, a negative time means they were faster:
https://www.racefans.net/charts/2014drivercolours.csv
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | |
| Jean-Eric Vergne | -1.504 | -0.254999999999995 | 0.141000000000005 | -0.705000000000013 | 0.11999999999999 | -0.549999999999983 | -0.458000000000013 | 0.582999999999998 | 0.147999999999996 | 0.182000000000002 | -0.0690000000000026 | 0.427999999999969 | 0.0870000000000033 | 0.0629999999999882 | -0.108000000000004 | 0.742999999999995 | 0.314000000000007 | 0.61699999999999 | 0.125 |
rick2k9 (@rick2k9)
4th October 2014, 15:25
What Red Bull must be looking at is how Verne progresses through the season. Looking just at the average finishing positions, I don’t see him doing particularly worse than his teammates. But if you look at the form at the start of the season and then at the end, RBRs decision makes a bit more sense. In races 1-7 Verne was generally quicker but from race 8 onwards he seems to have lost the edge.
I haven’t looked at the data but perhaps there was a similar trend last year when he was paired with Ricciardo.
Atticus (@atticus-2)
4th October 2014, 15:58
Making judgements based on one lap time per weekend should be used with caution, but if you look at race paces from every GP’s race chart you can indeed sport Kvyat holding the upper hand generally since about Red Bull Ring.