In this series, we look at F1 in 2018 and ask if it improved. Our general impression is that F1 was slightly more exciting in 2018 than in the immediately previous years. But the driver's champion didn't change and the constructor's champion probably won't change either, so we have to look deeper to see if this feeling is justified and why.
In this first installment, we look at the diversity of winners since that is a factor in how fans perceive the closeness of the competition. Of course, we only have data through the Mexican GP, so these could change.
Source: Getty Images
2018
2017
2018 and 2017 are thus pretty similar in terms of diversity of winners. There is one exception, which is in the diversity of winner car makes. In 2017 Mercedes AMG won 60% of the races. In 2018, thus far, Mercedes AMG has won only 47% of the races. Still, it feels like something more than that is going on. We'll look for that in our next installment.
The sale will take place exclusively online through Sotheby’s Sealed, featuring the ultra-rare 1995 McLaren F1, distinguished by its one-off Creighton Brown color. Bidding opens…
New design, 800 CV of power, over 60km range in electric mode, with best-in-class performance and top speed in its category Sant’Agata Bolognese/Beijing, 24 April…
Historically, we at Winding Road have hosted Ross Bentley’s Speed Secrets on our site. Ross’s wisdom and expertise stacked alongside his ability to communicate to…
There are ways of leveraging the industrialized world within which we live to draw goodness out of everyone who encounters that which is produced. Struck…
By the start of the 20th Century, the development of consumer automobiles was in full swing, and, seemingly, everyone was throwing their hat in the…