Formula 1: Just two teams share this unfortunate statistic
By Asher Fair
Eight Formula 1 teams have seen both of their drivers score points in the 2021 season. But the other two haven’t scored at all, much less with both drivers.
Entering the 2021 Formula 1 season’s fifth race, the Monaco Grand Prix at Circuit de Monaco, 13 drivers among seven teams had scored points this year. Among those seven teams, only Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel hadn’t scored points.
The four-time world champion changed that with a fifth place finish on the streets of Monte Carlo, and one of the three teams that entered this race scoreless also scored their first point of the year. Alfa Romeo scored one point with a 10th place finish from Antonio Giovinazzi.
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In the Azerbaijan Grand Prix at Baku City Circuit two weeks ago, Giovinazzi’s teammate, Kimi Raikkonen, scored his first point of the year with a 10th place result. He had finished the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari in ninth, but a post-race penalty dropped him to 13th.
As a result of Raikkonen’s 10th place finish, Alfa Romeo have now scored with both of their drivers this year.
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They are the eighth team that can make this claim, and this is quite impressive, given the fact that they determined early on that they would be focusing their efforts primarily on the 2022 car as opposed to the 2021 car with the new rules and regulations slated to take effect.
Meanwhile, Williams and Haas, the other two teams already looking ahead primarily to 2022, are still scoreless with both of their drivers through six races on the 23-race schedule.
Williams teammates George Russell and Nicholas Latifi and Haas rookie teammates Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin are all tied for 17th place in the driver standings with zero points.
The top finish among this quartet is Schumacher’s 13th place finish in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, three spots behind the lowest possible point-scoring effort.
Mazepin finished this race in a career-high 14th, a finish that matched Russell’s season-best finishes from the Bahrain Grand Prix, the Spanish Grand Prix and the Monaco Grand Prix. Latifi has a season-best finish of 15th in the Monaco Grand Prix.
Russell leads this quartet with an average finish of 15.67.
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Will either one of these two teams score points throughout the remaining 17 races on the 2021 schedule? The season’s seventh race, the French Grand Prix, is set to be broadcast live on ESPN from Circuit Paul Ricard beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET this morning.