F1 2023’s underachievers: Who were the biggest disappointments?
Sergio Perez
Compared to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez’s 2023 campaign was shocking. What started with the promise of 🦂a title batt꧙le after sharing two victories apiece with Verstappen over the first four races quickly turned into misery as Perez’s season fell apart.
Things went majorly downhill for Perez after a psychologically-damaging defeat to Verstappen in Miami, despite starting from pole with his teammate down in ninth. Although he held a valid contract for 2024, pressure soon ramped up on the Mexican after he failed 🔴to reach Q3 a remarkable five times in a row in the field’s dominant car.
Perez went on to suffer his lowest point of the season during a disastrous weekend in Qatar but recovered just in time to hold onto second place in the championship ahead of Mercedes’168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton.
Considering the competitiveness of the RB19, Perez’s returns were not good enough. He🥃 managed just two wins and two poles in a c🤪ar Vertsappen drove to 19 victories and 12 poles on his way to more than doubling Perez's points haul.
Lance Stroll
A herculean effort saw 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lance Stroll drive through the pain to finish sixth at the season-opener in Bahrain, just over two weeks after he broke his wrist and a toe in a cycling ꦏaccident that left him in hosp꧒ital and uncertain whether he’d be fit for the first few races.
.The Canadian failed to raꦐck up a single podium in a car worthy of podium finishes - underlined by Alonso’s eight trips to the rostrum across 2023 - while he could only take 10th in the drivers’ standings with 74 points as Alonso scored 206 on his way to claiming an impressive fourth.&nbs🔯p;
Alongside Aston Martin’s performance drop-o꧃ff, Stroll’s consistency was a large reason behind the team slumping to fifth in the constructors’. Following his angry meltdown in Qatar, Stroll did at least end the season strongly, though it was an underwhelming campaign when compared against the bar set by A𒉰lonso.
Logan Sargeant
Like Perez, another driver whose performances left his future uncertain for most of the year was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Logan Sargeant. In fact, his place at Williams for 2024 was only confirmeꦅd in the days after ꦗthe season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
The F2 race-winner’s baptism to F1 proved to be an immediate challenge as he endure📖d a difficult rookie season that was largely overshadowed by several errors that led to big - and extremely costly - crashes.
Sargeant was also conclusively outperformed by his impressive teammate168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Alex Albon, w🐽hose stunning displays to out-drive Williams’ 2023 challenger effectively took the team to seventh place in the constructors’ championship single-handedly.
However, the American rookie did man♔age to claim the only point of his F1 career at the United States Grand Prix after Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were disqualified, and his late-season progress was deemed enou𝔉gh to warrant being kept on for a sophomore year.
Haas
It is difficult to truly judge 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kevin Magnussen and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Hulkenberg’s performancesಌ fairly over 2023 given the machinery they had at their disposal was s😼o frustratingly terrible - at least on Sundays.
The season was a big disappointment for Haas, who finished last in the constructors’ championship for the second time in three seasons. Haas’ only real development of the season proved to be a failure in the eyes of Hulkenberg, r🌼esulting in him and Magnussen splitting the old and new-spec cars, with minimal rewards.
The only real positive about the VF23 was how quick itꦓ was over a single lap, resulting in some phenomenal flashes of speed from Hulke🐼nberg and Magnussen in qualifying, but tyre wear issues often led to the pair rapidly descending in the races.
Nyck De Vries
After a spectacular points-scoring cameo with Williams as a last-minute stand-in for Albon led to a full-time opportunity with AlphaTauri, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nyck De Vries’ F1 stint proved to be short-liv🌳ed and not very memorable.
The 28-year-old Dutchman was ruthlessly dropped by team owners Red Bull and replaced by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo just 10 races into his first full F1 campaign following an unconvincing a🅷nd difficult start.
De Vries, a Formula E champion, was largely outperformed by teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda and made a series of mistಞakes that ultimately cost him his seat.
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