The glaring stat that shows why McLaren will replace Daniel Ricciardo for F1 2023
Despite beating Lando Norris to McLaren’s firsꦺt win since 2012 at Monza last year, Daniel Ricciardo’s time with the Woking outfit hasn’t lived up to expectations.
Signed on a massive bumper deal as a replacement for Carlos Sainz, Ricciardo’s underperformance has led the announcement that he will leave McLaren before the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 2023 season, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:opening up the driver market.
McLaren have agreed to pay off Ricciardo because he was contracted until the end of 2023 - an eye-watering 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:$21 million (£13.5 million) with a year to go still on his contract.
In🙈 terms of the key statistics, 🔯how bad has it been for Ricciardo in 2022 up against Norris?
Ricciardo v Norris in 2022
Race: 3-10
Qualifying: 2-11
Points: 19-76
Podiums: 0-1
Best finish: 6th - 3rd
Best grid position: 6th - 4th
Ricci꧅ardo’s poor pe🐻rformance is costing McLaren in the constructors’ championship with Alpine currently fourth in the pecking order.
Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso have c♈onsistently scored po♑ints this season, while McLaren are relying on Norris to carry the team.
One glaring stat that shows how much Ricciardo is struggling this year is looking at qualifying sectors versusไ Norris.
Data from Lights Out Blog show that in the 13 qua✤lifying sessions this year, Ricciardo has♏ only set a faster sector time than Norris on five occasions (34-5 in Norris’ favour).
Comparatively, Alex Albon is 28-8 against Nicholas Lat🍰ifi; V🌌altteri Bottas is 29-10 against Zhou Guanyu; Sebastian Vettel is 21-9 compared to Lance Stroll.
Ricciardo is al💜so reportedly the fifth-highest earner on the grid - a whopping £12.2 million per year.
Compared to the rest of the gr😼id, Ricciardo is on more money than Ferrari duo Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc (£9ꦇ.8m each) and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez (£8.6m).
N👍orris’ performances versus Ricciardo also earned him a sizable pay rise - making him the third behind Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen on £20 m🙈illion per year.
Ricciardo’s performances d🙈on’t warrant bein♐g one of the best paid drivers on the grid.
No douꦿbt that his likely replacement - Piastri - will be on significantly less for 2023.
With a sharp eye for F1’s co☂ntroversies and storylines, Connor is the heartbeat of our unbiased r🉐eporting.
