F1 season-finale stats

Max Verstappen has re-written the historical past books in some ways in 2023, with an astonishing efficiency for Crimson Bull that has seen him dominate the sphere and go away the remainder of the drivers battling for seconds.

Though this season has been all about Verstappen, it has not all been about Verstappen – with loads of fascinating stats to be seen all the best way down the sphere.

WIN PERCENTAGE

Beginning with Verstappen, he has not solely crushed his personal report of most wins in a season however has upped the victory proportion to an astonishing 85.7% – the very best ever proportion! To place this into perspective, earlier report holders have been Alberto Ascari at 75% (6 out of 8 races in 1952) and Michael Schumacher at 72.22% (13 out of 18 races in 2004).

A nineteenth victory of the season in Abu Dhabi – for which he's at odds of 2/7 – would increase the report to 86.4%. That's considerably higher, even, than his earlier report of 15 wins (68.2%) final yr, and though it was stated earlier than with Schumacher's information, absolutely that may take some beating.

Notably, within the all-time winner's listing, Verstappen has jumped two driving legends this season – shifting from 35 to his present 53 profession victory and passing Ayrton Senna's 41 and Alain Prost's 51 within the course of.

POLE PERFORMANCE

In comparison with his race successes, Verstappen has not had all of it his method in qualifying and he ‘solely' has 11 poles from 21 races to this point – nicely down on Sebastian Vettel's report of 15 from 19 set in 2011. In reality, 4 different drivers – Charles Leclerc, Sergio Perez, Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton – have additionally began from the entrance.

Of those drivers, Leclerc has had probably the most poles (5) and the chances of one other in Abu Dhabi is at 7/2. With regards to groups, Crimson Bull has 13 poles and Ferrari 7 – and the chances of Ferrari closing that hole this weekend are 5/2.

4 drivers – Oscar Piastri, George Russell, Lando Norris and Fernando Alonso – have all began from the entrance row in second place, however haven't but managed to get pole this season. Of these, Norris is maybe probably this weekend to just do that, with odds of 11/1, whereas the least doubtless is Alonso at 100/1.

Qualifying has been very shut throughout the sphere this season – and astonishingly each driver who's on the grid this weekend has appeared within the High 10 a minimum of as soon as, with eight drivers averaging a grid place greater than 10 by means of the yr.

PODIUM PERFORMANCES

Solely Perez and Sainz have taken victories this yr, however 5 drivers have completed second. The chances of these 5 ending second once more are Norris (6/5), Hamilton and Leclerc (5/1), Piastri (14/1) and Alonso (40/1).

An astonishing 11 drivers have completed on the rostrum this season, with Lance Stroll being the one driver to have completed fourth however not made it to the champagne celebrations. The chances of him doing so this weekend is 100/1.

In the meantime, Norris has claimed 5 podiums from the final seven races, and the chances of one other this weekend is at 8/11.

4 totally different engines have powered automobiles on the rostrum, with Crimson Bull's Honda RBPT unit prime on 29 however Mercedes simply 5 podiums again on 24 – because of Mercedes, Aston Martin and McLaren all utilizing that unit.

TOP SIXERS

Verstappen has completed within the prime six in each race this season – within the three races he didn't win, he completed second twice and fifth in Singapore. Subsequent finest are Perez and Hamilton, who each have 16 top-six finishes, while Sainz has 15 in his Ferrari – eight of which have come within the final 9 races. The chances of one other are 1/3.

CRASHES AND RETIREMENTS

Esteban Ocon and Logan Sargeant have suffered probably the most retirements this season with a present complete of seven. The chances of them making that eight non-classified finishes earlier than the season involves an in depth is 9/2. Kevin Magnussen, Leclerc and Stroll are subsequent up with 5 non-classified finishes, though the latter two each failed to begin one race every and Leclerc was additionally disqualified from one.

This season has seen a complete of 36 accident-induced retirements, with Ocon and Magnussen struggling probably the most with 4 crashes every. Ocon, Sargeant and Russell have had probably the most mechanical failures with every on 4. The chances of Russell posting one other retirement to finish the season are 11/2.

Alonso and Norris have each raced probably the most laps 97.5% and 96% respectively, whereas in distinction Leclerc (86%), Sargeant (85%) and Ocon (83%) have accomplished the least.

LEADING LIGHTS

It's no shock that the Crimson Bull pair have led probably the most laps – with Verstappen on a staggering 951 and Perez on 146. Sainz, who's the one different winner, is subsequent up on 77, however the driver who has led most and never but received is Leclerc, with 40 main laps. The chances of him changing the result in victory this time are 16/1.

KEEP TRACK OF THE ACTION

To maintain monitor of the motion, wherever you're, the F1 Live Tracker from bet365 – is an efficient place to go – masking all the data you can presumably want, from all of the observe classes, by means of qualifying, sprints and the race itself.

It permits customers to trace every driver's place from the beginning grid to the end, stay all through the race, with present leaderboard info, the most recent quickest lap, present lap instances, variety of pitstops by driver, present tyre settings and driver gaps.

To make it easy to catch up, a timeline particulars all of the necessary race updates – together with all the important thing overtakes and incidents – and it additionally permits two drivers to be in contrast head-to-head throughout the race, highlighting them on the tracker.

On prime of that, all the protection automotive updates, pink flags and yellow flags are coated, whereas monitor info reminiscent of temperatures, humidity and likelihood of rain makes it doable to maintain tabs on potential adjustments and challenges and extra simply predict what may occur.

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