Welcome to our Staturday Night Fever, a collection of pure filler sporting stats stories for our Gurgler website for a Saturday night in between the weekly previews and post weekend analysis and a donkey ranting about stuff. This week we are heading into Formula One territory for a look into the Fall and Fall of Sergio Perez,
Our Staturday Night Fever is our way of diving deep into a sporting stat, providing a few barely interesting facts and more.
It’s easy to kick someone while they’re down, so we will.
This week either inspired by F1 heading for Las Vegas or having more time to kill than usual because of the three week gap, we are looking into the fall and fall of Sergio Perez this season, and to wonder how he has kept a seat in one of F1’s most ruthless teams.
Maybe their sponsors or Netflix stepped in. Or Max. Someone had to, the numbers below say different to keeping him for 2025. Or the last few races of 2024.
STATURDAY NIGHT FEVER – F1 Sergio Perez 2024 Stats
Here are the best of the barely interesting facts, fancy visuals and stats we found while looking into Sergio Perez’s recent F1 efforts.
A lot of comparison visuals below use the seventh round and beyond to highlight where the rot set in from.
- Sergio Perez has the worst H2H team mate record of any driver this season for qualifying and race result with just one win vs Max Verstappen this season. Even Logan Sargeant managed two wins in the H2H before being sacked.
- If you expand the Team Mate H2H to all sessions of Qualifying and Free Practice and Sprint Races, Max Verstappen leads by 147-13. For context the next worst record for driver who have yet to be fired is Charles Leclerc over Carlos Sainz by 103-36. That means Sergio Perez has beaten Verstappen in just 8% of all sessions this season. The break down of those H2H victories are six Free Practice sessions wins, four times he was faster than Verstappen in any Q session, and three faster Fastest laps.
- Sergio Perez has scored more than a hundred Championship points less than the driver just above him from Round 7 onwards who is George Russell by the way.
- Sergio Perez’s lack of performance in qualifying is highlighted worse on Classic tracks.
- It might be obvious, but Perez’s average qualifying grid position is almost three times worse when Max Verstappen isn’t on pole position. So, when Verstappen put his Red Bull on pole, Sergio Perez’s average grid position this season was 4.5, when the number 1 Red Bull wasn’t on pole Perez’s average grid position in 12.3.
| Driver | Diff |
| Guanyu ZHOU | 0.32% |
| Pierre GASLY | 0.26% |
| Fernando ALONSO | 0.20% |
| Sergio PEREZ | 0.20% |
| Esteban OCON | 0.18% |
| Lewis HAMILTON | 0.00% |
| Max VERSTAPPEN | -0.03% |
| Charles LECLERC | -0.07% |
| Nico HULKENBERG | -0.10% |
| Valtteri BOTTAS | -0.12% |
| Carlos SAINZ | -0.19% |
| George RUSSELL | -0.23% |
| Kevin MAGNUSSEN | -0.34% |
| Lance STROLL | -0.36% |
| Yuki TSUNODA | -0.36% |
| Alexander ALBON | -0.41% |
| Oscar PIASTRI | -0.62% |
| Lando NORRIS | -0.79% |
- Perez is one of five drivers this season to have a figure for % from pole further away in 2024 than 2023.
- According to our Driver of the Race/Season points, since Round 7 Serio Perez has only outscored Guanyu Zhou of the full time drivers of 2024. Max Verstappen has just over 1,000 Driver of the Year points, meanwhile Perez has 161 points. Whilst the Driver of the Season ratings points favour drivers who constantly thrash their driver, the is the biggest on the grid. Refer to our most recent ratings article for an explanation on points.
DRIVER STATS SUMMARY FROM ROUND SEVEN ONWARDS
Championship Points, Driver of the Year Points, Qualifying results and H2H is all here.
SERGIO PEREZ F1 QUALIFYING PERFORMANCE
SERGIO PEREZ F1 DRIVER OF THE SEASON POINTS
Finally, here’s our in-house points system to award the best of the best drivers. Perez is neither. But here’s the comparison regardless. Perez is worse than Stroll.
