2014 Season Stats

F1 over for another year, so probably a good time to sum up the season with stats on all drivers and teams.

Pos	Driver	Team	Wins	Podiums	Poles	Fastest Laps	Points
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	11	16	7	7	384
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	5	15	11	5	317
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	3	8	0	1	238
4	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	0	6	0	1	186
5	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	0	4	0	2	167
6	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	0	2	0	0	161
7	Felipe Massa	Williams	0	3	1	1	134
8	Jenson Button	McLaren	0	1	0	0	126
9	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	0	0	0	0	96
10	Sergio Perez	Force India	0	1	0	1	59
11	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren	0	1	0	0	55
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	0	0	0	1	55
13	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso	0	0	0	0	22
14	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	0	0	0	0	8
15	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	0	0	0	0	8
16	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus	0	0	0	0	2
17	Jules Bianchi	Marussia	0	0	0	0	2
18	Adrian Sutil	Sauber	0	0	0	0	0
19	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham	0	0	0	0	0
20	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber	0	0	0	0	0
21	Max Chilton	Marussia	0	0	0	0	0
22	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham	0	0	0	0	0
23	Will Stevens	Caterham	0	0	0	0	0
24	Andre Lotterer	Caterham	0	0	0	0	0

Simple table to start, final championship position of each driver with their wins, podium finishes, poles, fastest laps and points. Just three drivers won a race, and they finished in the top three, Hamilton had over twice the wins of Rosberg and definitely deserved the title, just a shame we couldn’t have had a fight for the championship in Abu Dhabi for the win.

Hamilton also had the most podiums of the season, but only just, and the most fastest laps of the season. Rosberg took home the pointless pole award with his ten, Massa the only non-Mercedes driver to score a pole.

Pos	Driver	Team	Race	Grid	Qual	Fastest Lap
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	10	7	7	11
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	4	12	12	8
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	11	10	12	10
4	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	7	13	13	6
5	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	3	9	7	9
6	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	15	16	16	13
7	Felipe Massa	Williams	8	6	6	10
8	Jenson Button	McLaren	14	9	10	10
9	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	8	11	12	9
10	Sergio Perez	Force India	7	8	7	7
11	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren	3	10	9	9
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1	3	3	4
13	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso	6	9	7	9
14	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	5	14	15	8
15	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	5	10	12	10
16	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus	5	5	4	9
17	Jules Bianchi	Marussia	8	11	12	7
18	Adrian Sutil	Sauber	5	12	10	9
19	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham	2	5	4	7
20	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber	5	7	9	9
21	Max Chilton	Marussia	3	4	3	7
22	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham	5	10	11	6
23	Will Stevens	Caterham	0	0	0	0
24	Andre Lotterer	Caterham	0	1	1	0

Table above shows how well each driver has done against their teammate in races. So for example, Hamilton has finished ahead of Rosberg ten times, and Rosberg ahead of Hamilton four times, but it only counts as finishing ahead if BOTH drivers finish the race, which is why they won’t add up to 19. Grid of course refers to the actual grid position, but qualifying is their qualifying position, before any penalties were applied, and fastest lap if they set a laptime in the race quicker than their teammate.

Fernando Alonso has been the most dominant teammate in 2014, finishing ahead of Raikkonen 15 times, being beaten just once, with similar results in qualifying and fastest laps. Red Bull rookie Daniel Ricciardo performed incredibly against four time champion Sebastian Vettel, beating him 11-3 in the races and 12-7 in qualifying. At Toro Rosso it’s fairly even, with Kvyat having a slight advantage in qualifying, perhaps a bit unfair to drop Vergne, but that’s what Toro Rosso do.

Pos	Driver	Team	Out Q1	Out Q2	In Q3
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1	1	17
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	0	0	19
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	0	0	19
4	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	0	3	16
5	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	1	4	14
6	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1	0	18
7	Felipe Massa	Williams	2	2	15
8	Jenson Button	McLaren	0	6	13
9	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	1	11	7
10	Sergio Perez	Force India	1	13	5
11	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren	0	4	15
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	2	4	13
13	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso	0	11	8
14	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	4	13	2
15	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	0	11	8
16	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus	16	3	0
17	Jules Bianchi	Marussia	12	3	0
18	Adrian Sutil	Sauber	7	11	1
19	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham	16	0	0
20	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber	7	12	0
21	Max Chilton	Marussia	15	1	0
22	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham	15	1	0
23	Will Stevens	Caterham	1	0	0
24	Andre Lotterer	Caterham	1	0	0

Final driver table, and one that is slightly wrong to make it easier for myself. As I auto-calculate everything for these tables in Excel it’s far easier to stick to one system, so even though for the last three races Q1 and Q2 were different, I’m calculating them as if they are the same. Plus as the two teams missing from the grid were generally the last four, it makes sense for a comparative point of view to keep the same system.

Anyway, Rosberg and Ricciardo were the only two drivers to reach Q3 on every Saturday, Maldonado and Ericsson the two drivers to drop out of Q1 the most times. Jules Bianchi did incredibly well to reach Q2 three times, the same amount as Lotus driver Pastor Maldonado.

Pos	Team	Wins	Podiums	Poles	Fastest Laps	Points
1	Mercedes	16	31	18	12	701
2	Red Bull	3	12	0	3	405
3	Williams	0	9	1	2	320
4	Ferrari	0	2	0	1	216
5	McLaren	0	2	0	0	181
6	Force India	0	1	0	1	155
7	Toro Rosso	0	0	0	0	30
8	Lotus	0	0	0	0	10
9	Marussia	0	0	0	0	2
10	Sauber	0	0	0	0	0
11	Caterham	0	0	0	0	0

Simple and short table for the teams, Mercedes quite obviously dominated everything, most wins, podiums, poles, fastest laps and points. Red Bull the only other team to win a race, Williams the only other team to start on pole. Marussia finished in a very impressive ninth place but unfortunately are unlikely to return in 2015.