The 2024 F1 season was one of the better editions for quite some time. Seven different winners from four teams, a top six in qualifying you could never predict too accurately in advance, enough of a Championship battle and Red Bull or Lewis Hamilton didn’t win everything. To celebrate those facts and more The Gurgler ends their season coverage with the definitive 2024 F1 Season Stats & Stuff.
This is a collection of 2024 F1 Season Stats used throughout the season with our 2024 Race Reports, plus some extra diving into the stats where we thought it was of mild interest.
2024 F1 Season Stats & Stuff
2024 Season Results
2024 F1 Season Stats – Race Result v Grid Position
2024 F1 Season Stats – Grid Position into Race Result
So pole position is still the one to be on to win races, but it is under 70%. The lowest finishing position from pole this season was 6th, other than the two DNFs. Max Verstappen’s win from 16th on the grid in Brazil is definitely an outlier. For interest’s sake, 11th place on the grid had the most retirements.
2024 F1 Season Stats – Qualifying Stats
Qualifying in kind of important to F1, so we have the biggest bunch O stats to go with it.
The below is an average of qualifying efforts for the season from Q1, Q2 and Q3.
2024 F1 Season Stats – Qualifying Trends – Top 4 Car % from Pole
2024 F1 Season Stats – Qualifying Trends – Midfield % from Pole
2024 F1 Season Stats – Best of the Rest
We awarded points on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis in qualifying and race order for any car that wasn’t a Mercedes, Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari.
2024 F1 Season Stats – 1st Lap & Race Positions Gained
Here’s where we see the first lap progress of drivers. Plus also the end race position vs qualifying slot gain/lost. DNFs excluded, and is weighted towards a slow, steady finisher.
2024 F1 Season Stats – Free Practice Stats
2024 F1 Season Stats – Sprint Race Summary
By the end of the season you can hardly remember the Sprint races. So here’s a brief stats reminder. The points awarded for Sprint races is quite close.
2024 F1 H2H Stats
Some one sides H2H comparisons here. The top comparison is final qualifying and final race, where DNF in the race are excluded for both drivers within the team, if not the driver’s fault.
Here’s the ultimate H2H where every single session is taken into account.
2024 F1 Season Stats – Stats Extra
ROLLING CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS
The 2024 F1 Season ebbed and flowed with various drivers being the form driver only to be quickly overtaken by another.
A quick way of checking this throughout the season was taking the Championship Points and doing a rolling three and six race figure. It shows where each driver had a golden run and hit the skids.
Average Championship Points does not include sprint points but does include fastest lap point.
THREE RACE ROLLING AVERAGE
SIX RACE ROLLING AVERAGE
HOW BAD WAS SERGIO PEREZ IN QUALIFYING?
DNF STATS