The glaring stat that shows why McLaren will replace Daniel Ricciardo for F1 2023
Despite beating Lando Norr🦩is to McLaren’s first 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 fo🍬r 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
Ricciardo’s poor performance is costing McLaren in the constructors’ championship with Alpi🦄ne currently fourth in the peckiꦯng order.
Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso have consistently scored p🌞oints this season, while McLaren are relying on Norris to carဣry the team.
One glaring stat that shows how much Ri🌱cciardo is struggling this year is looking at qu💮alifying sectors versus Norris.
Data from Lights Out Blog show that in the 13 qualifyin🐻𒐪g 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 Latifi; Valtteri Bottas is 29ꦚ-10 agaiꩵnst Zhou Guanyu; Sebastian Vettel is 21-9 compared to Lance Stroll.
Ricciardo is also repor💫tedly the fifth-hi𓃲ghest earner on the grid - a whopping £12.2 million per year.
Compared to the rest of the grid, Ricciardo is on more money than Ferrari duo Carlos Sainz and Charles ♔Leclerc (£9.8m each) and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez (£8.6m).
Norris’ performances versus Ricciardo also earned🐬 him a sizable pay rise - making him the third behind Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen on £20 million per year.
Ricciardo’s performances don’t warr🃏ant being one of the best paid drivers on the grid.
No doubt that hꦡis likely replacement - Piastri - will be on significantly less for 2023.
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