What is the cost of accidents experienced by drivers during the 2022 Formula 1 season?
As fans and observers trample their feet waiting for the start of the 2023 Formula 1 season (discover here all that changes), the winter inter-season is conducive to some reflections and analyzes on the previous year.
Our Dutch colleagues from RacingNews365 had fun calculating the cumulative cost of accidents experienced by some of the pilots of the plateau in 2022.
However, keep in mind that this isestimatesthe teams being careful not to disclose their official costsespecially when it comes to “breakage”.
Which driver cost his team the most in 2022?
Since the introduction of budget ceilings two years ago, accidents took a even larger size.
The 2022 Formula 1 season has not been free fromsometimes spectacular accidentsof Charles Leclerc in France in barrels of Guanyu-Zhou at Silverstone.
But which F1 driver has cost the most money in his stable in 2022? Spoiler alert : it is the same as in 2021 !
And why not the double for Alpine? 😁🇫🇷
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F1 crashes: highest costs per driver in 2022
- Fernando Alonso (Alpine): $1.35 million
- Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri): $1.4 million
- Lance Stroll (Aston Martin): $2 million
- Esteban Ocon (Alpine): $2.2 million
- Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin): $2.3 million
- Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes): $2.7 million
- Carlos Sainz (Ferrari): $2.8 million
- Guanyu Zhou (Alfa Romeo): $2.9 million
- Nicholas Latifi (Williams): $3.4 million
- Mick Schumacher (Haas): $4 million
Source: RacingNews365
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