2022 F1 Season Review Part 2: P9 - Alpha Tauri Racing

 Nick's Notebook: 2022 F1 Season Review Part 2: P9 - Alpha Tauri Racing

Drivers

Pierre Gasly - 14th with 23 points

Yuki Tsonoda - finished 16th with 12 points

Team Ranking - 9th with 35 points, 2 points behind 8th place Haas and 27 points ahead of last place Williams and 684 points behind their big sister

F1CC Rankings

Pierre Gasly - 15th with 231 points

Yuki Tsonoda - 18th with 221 points

Alpha Tauri would have finished 10th with 452 points, 1 point behind Williams 

Summary

Started the season out with 4 top 10 finishes in the first 4 races, 1 7th, 2 8s, and 1 9th.

Pierre had a 4 race gap followed by him finishing 5th in Baku, and Yuki finished 10th at Catalunya.  Pierre didn’t score points again until a 9th at Spa, an 8th at Monza, and a 10th in Singapore.  Yuki only scored his 8th in his inaugural race in Bahrain, 7th at Imola, 10th at Catalunya, and 10th at COTA

Qualifying

Gasly came out strong making Q3 in the first two races, ultimately making Q3 on 7 occasions to Yuki’s 5 Q3 appearances.  Gasly was knocked out in Q1 7 times to Yuki’s 6 knockouts and Yuki was knocked out in Q2 10 times to Gasly’s 8 times.

Gasly qualified a best 6th with 2 7ths,2 9ths and 2 10ths.  Yuki qualified a best 8th twice with 2 9th place finsihes in qualifying, 2 9th places and a one-tenth place finish in qualifying.

Gasly finished 11th or lower in 15 races, and Yuki finished 11th or lower in 17 races 

Sprint Race Results

Neither driver scored any points in any sprint race with a best finish of 12th (Yuki at Imola)  truly pathetic

GAS - 17-15-14

TSU - 12-17-17

Starting Position

Gasly started at an average position of 12th starting in the top 10 on 8 occasions.

Yukie started 2.2 places lower at an average of 14.2 with only 5 top 10 starts, including 20th in 4 races vs. Gasly’s 2 last place starts

Qualifying vs. Starting Position

Gasly improved an average of 0.3 positions from qualifying to starting position for a total of 8 gained positions

Yuki lost 0.5 positions for a total of 8 lost positions over the course of the season including his biggest decline of 5 grid places at Monza

Starting vs. Finishing Position

Gasly improved 0.9 positions per race for a total improvement of 20 positions over the course of the season

Yuki improved 21 positions over the season

Race Results

Gasly had an average finishing position of 11.4 with a highest finish of 5th in Baku.  He had 2 8ths, 2 9ths, 1 10th, 3 11ths, 3 12ths, 1 13th, 4 14ths and 5 races 15th of lower

Yuki had an average finishing position of 13.2 with a highest finish of 7th at Imola, 1 8th, 2 10ths, 1 11th, 1 12th, 3 13ths, and 2 14ths with 11 finishes 15th or lower

Team Winner

Pierre had 6 finishes in the points for a total of 23 points, finishing 14th

Yuki had 4 finishes in the points for a total of 12 points, finishing 16th

Ultimately Alpha Tauri finished 9th in the standings.  However, per F1C Challenge scoring methodology, they finished dead fucking last. Itsofacto, they suck major ballsacs

Gasly got out of the Red Bull Family and off to the lame AF frenchie team with the most disliked driver on the grid (Ocon - my opinion), but he still scored more points than the flying Kamikaze.

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