2022 F1 Season Review Part 4: P7 - Aston Martin F1 Racing

 

2022-2023 Winter Break P7 - Aston Martin

Part 1 - Drivers

Sebastian Vettel - 11th with 37 points

Lance Stroll - 15th with 18 points

Nico Hulkenberg - last with 0 points

Aston Martin finished 7th with 55 points

Per F1C Rules

Sebastian - 8th with 359 points

Lance - tied for 9th with 357 points

Nico Hulkenberg - last (22 - 14 points)

Aston Martin - 5th with 730 points

Part 2 - Summary

With the new factory set to come online in 2023 and the massive investment from new (ish) owner Lawrence Stroll, I think we all saw massive potential.  They are two years into their 5 year plan to win the Championship and Mike Krack has said they are still on target to meet that objective.  Considering they finished 7th in the standings after losing the tiebreaker with Alfa Romeo.  I hope they are on target, cause I’d love to see them win, but I’m not seeing it just yet…

 

Part 3 – Qualifying

Z`Seb made Q2 and Q3 on 5 occasions and was knocked out in Q1 10 times, qualifying an average position of 15.1, qualifying in the top 10 in 5 races, ninth all 5 times - Imola, Monaco, Baku, Suzuka, and Abu Dhabi.

 

Lance made Q3 on 3 occasions, Q2 on 7 occasions, and was knocked out in Q1 11 times, qualifying an average position of 15.7 -  10th at Miami and Zandvoort, and 7th at COTA. 

 

Nico never made it out of Q1 in his 2 appearances in 2022 though he didn’t arrive in Bahrain until after midnight Thursday night before the round of practice sessions

 

 

Sebastian outqualified Lance 13-9, including the first two races which Seb was out for, so really Seb whooped Lance 13-7.

 

 

 

Part – No Number Sprint RaceResults

Lance finished 15-13-16 at Imola-Austria-Brazil

Seb finished 13-19-9

 

Seb almost scored points in Brazil, buuuuut he didn’t.

Aston sucked it up in the sprint races.

Starting Position

Sebastian started at an average position of 14.1 starting in the top 10 7 times - Monaco, Baku, Spa, Japan, COTA, Brazil, and Abu Dhabi

Lance started at an average position of 14.7 starting in the top ten 4 times - Miami, Spa, Zandvoort, and COTA.  Lance did start higher than Sebastian on 9 occasions, but removing the two races Seb was sick for, it’s only 7.  Seb started 13 races ahead of his teammate.

Part 4 - Qualifying vs. StartingPosition

Lance moved up a total of 24 positions from where he qualified to where he started, an average of +1.1 positions per race while Seb moved up 21 positions +1.0 position per race.

Lance moved up 5 or more positions in 3 races - Austria (5), Belgium (5), and Italy(6).  Seb moved up 6 positions each in Belgium and Italy.  As a team, they improved their qualifying position more than any other team quite significantly.  However, they were mostly toward the back in qualifying, and without doing extra upgrades, there’s only one direction for them to go.

Part 5 - Starting vs. FinishingPosition

Not only did the Aston Martin drivers improve from qualifying to starting position the most, they also improved the most from where they started each race to where they finished.

 

Lance improved a total of 76 positions over the season (3.3 per race) and Seb improved 47 positions (2.3 per race). Lance improved 5 or more positions in 11 races, and Seb did the same in 6 races. 

 

Lance had on average more potential places to gain, but he still did very well in improving his position throughout most races.

Part 6 - Race Results

Sebastian scored points in 10 races with a highest finish of 6th (twice) in Baku and Suzuka. He finished 8th 4 times in Imola, Spa, Singapore, and COTA.  He finished 9th at Silverstone, and 10th in Monaco, Hungary, and Abu Dhabi.  He finished 11th 3 times and 12th once.

 

Lance scored points in 8 races with a highest 6th place finish in Singapore.  He finished 8th in Abu Dhabi, and 10th 6 times - Imola, Miami, Canada, France, Zandvoort, and Brazil.  He finished 11th and 12th 3 times each.  He was on the cusp of scoring points in 14 races…..but he didn’t so it doesn’t count.

 

Part 7 - Team Winner

Seb qualified 1.1 positions better than Lance and made Q3 on 5 occasions to Lance’s 3 visits to Q3.

Lance improved from where he started each race to where he finished each race by 1.0 positions per race more than Sebastian.  If we normalize for the races Seb missed, this margin falls to 0.8 positions per race.

Accounting for the races Vettel missed, Seb finished ahead of his teammate 10 times to Lance’s 9.  Seb also scored more than double the amount of points Lance scored and ultimately carried the team.

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